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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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There are many apple myths from the apple that Adam and Eve ate to gain knowledge and be like the Gods which was a "no no" in the garden of Eden to the Norse Goddess Idunna keeping all the Gods and Goddesses alive with her magic apples.
The Elder Gods are the Goddess and the God -- the Unknowable Feminine and Masculine which are emanations from the Incomprehensible and Ultimate Void which I call Grandmother Space.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Iconographically this Goddess is shown seated on a lotus that rests on the supine body of Lord Shiva, who in turn lies on a throne whose legs are the gods Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and Rudra.
SARASWATI This is the day is devoted to god's manifestation as Dewi Saraswati, the beautiful Goddess of Knowledges, manuscripts and the Wedas are blessed and special offerings are made for them.
The story continues as to how goddess Lakshmi appeared from the ocean and with the help of Vishnu, the ocean was churned and the nectar obtained was consumed by the helpless gods who regained their strength to defeat the demons and resumed control of the world.
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Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant
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The goddess Durga was created by the three gods - Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara - for overpowering the demons.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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This was the result of the infusion of the cult of the goddess by the gods of Aryans, Nordics, or Indo-Europeans coming from the north and the plains who were nomadic herders moving into the settled areas of Neolithic domesticated planting towns of the Near East around 7500 B.
Ariadne was actually a goddess and/or queen of Crete in neolithic Minoan Crete (Knossos was the capital of Crete), which was matrilineal at the time and had goddesses but no gods.
It is no longer the communal psyche imposed by the worship of the goddess in small villages where the social structure is fairly simple and rules not onerous; it is the worship of a complex of gods and goddesses under one supreme god.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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The Moon Gods rejoiced, and the Mana Goddess returned to her slumber, becoming the great Mana Tree.
Suddenly, the goddess of madness descends from heaven, sent by Hera, queen of the gods, who wants to punish Heracles for being the illegitimate son of Zeus and a mortal woman.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Easter was the goddess of orgies and unrestrained sexual licentiousness that heathen man celebrated in order to induce the gods to fertilize the earth and provide them a bountiful crop.
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