goddess
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Families perform a seven to nine-day ritual of bathing and offering cool water and neem leaves to the local disease goddess.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Its three plexiglass vaults hold ghostly symbols of procreation: an irradiated vortex, the fertility goddess Hera, a DNA spiral.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Still, costume designers Arianne Phillips and Monica Chamberlain make Wilde look like a formidable love goddess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The future of the imperial household -- mythically descended from the Shinto sun goddess Amaterasu -- depends currently on Prince Hisahito, the 19-year-old nephew of Emperor Naruhito, 66.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
The goddess looks directly at me, and suddenly my physical body is pulled into the dream.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Not for another three years did the complementary goddesses arrive, though when they did critics would conclude that they had been worth the wait.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
We can all practice speaking to persuade, not degrade, listening with an open heart and a curious mind, and remembering that we are not gods or goddesses.
From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2026
On television it was, therefore, an age of mothers — wise domestic goddesses whose energies were turned largely toward the raising of children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
It treats its female protagonists like full human beings instead of objects, or girlbossed-beyond-personhood goddesses, or a pile of tropes that AI would compile.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2025
I unpack Didu's suitcase of Hindu gods and goddesses and decide to display them near our grandfather's portrait, which just received a fresh string of chrysanthemums.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
Vocabulary lists containing goddess
World Religions
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Introductory
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The Stone Age - Middle School and High School
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