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- 141: Body Modifications
- ... usually include portraits or nature scenes. Custom tattoos are tattoos designed just for you. Finally, Oriental tattooing is a style concerned more with approach than subject matter. It incorporates swirling patterns and figures from eastern mythology into the designs. Although there are many choices of designs, most people just chose a flash design which refers to designs that are legally reproduced onto stencils and bodies. Deciding to get a tattoo is ...
- 142: Sexuality
- ... to time, from land to land, and from people to people. Social historians hold different points of view about sexuality relating to what the common people are thinking especially on the relationship between sexuality and mythology. The majority think that it is impossible to have a sexual history. However, the social historians state that sexual behaviour and its significance had changed time to time from their research, and therefore, they believed ...
- 143: Rights of Egyptian Women
- ... but one. The one exception involves a helpless man continuously saved by his wife's swift thinking. Mythological literature, considering the greater expanse of its audience, portrays women in a more egalitarian light. Collected Egyptian mythology, with a greater variety of characters than Greek and Roman combined, portrays many goddesses in every role imaginable. The most popular goddess, Isis, personified the ideal wife and mother in her never-ending love for ...
- 144: The Role of Women in India and South America
- ... They lead a life that dos not parallel ours but hopefully one day will. Women in India occupy a paradoxical status. On one hand, there is an abundance of goddesses occupying pivotal places in Indian mythology. On the other hand, there are inhuman Atraditions@ piled against them; Sati, Dowry-system, etc. come to mind. Yet, now there are possibly more Indian women in scientific, medical, and professional areas than many Aliberalized ...
- 145: Sex in Black, White and Mulatto
- ... Few men felt comfortable with slave women who appeared to "prefer sexual attention of white rather than black men."4 "Those slave women who found a direct manner to resist emerged in the lore and mythology of slave women both as models for black female conduct and as symbols of resistance that were unique to the black female experience. Mothers would tell these stories to their daughters to help grow a ...
- 146: Titanium
- ... until 1910, by heating TiCl4 (titanium chlorine 4) in a steel bomb. Later, a man named Martin Klaproth took the discovery of Gregor one step further and named it Titanium after the giants in Greek mythology, the Titans. When titanium is in its powder form it can sell for around $100 a pound. Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earths crust. Titanium, when pure is a ...
- 147: Dolphins
- Dolphins Dolphins are beautiful and intelligent craters that have attracted the attention of people for thousands of years. The animals appeared in Greek and roman mythology and it is said that the ancient Greeks considered the common dolphin sacred to the god Apollo. For centuries, sailors have regarded the presence of dolphins near ships as a sing that they will have ...
- 148: Plan and Purpose (Creation) or Time and Chance (Evolution)?
- ... found applications into everyday life. Ideas frequently associated with the New Age movement include anthroposophical teachings, inner transformation, reincarnation, extraterrestrial life, biofeedback, chanting, alchemy, psychic healing, extrasensory perception, divination, astral travel, acupuncture, massage, tarot, Zen, mythology, and visualization. The New Age wants us to believe that we create our own destiny. The Evolution of Man and the New Age are similar. Evolutionists believe that we were formed from non-living matter ...
- 149: Manatees
- ... by its name. For instance, their mammalian order, Sirenia, is given that name because of the sound that they made ("Florida Manatee" 1). Sailors mistook their sounds for the sounds of Sirens, characters in Greek mythology who had the bodies of birds, and heads of women. In the myth, the Sirens had such voices of sweetness that they lured sailors to drive their boat onto rocky shores ("Sirens" 1). Their name ...
- 150: What Is Hinduism
- ... iconography. The extra body parts symbolize a different aspect of the Supreme Being. A great story behind the justification of several heads on an image is best explained in a popular story: In Classical Hindu mythology, Brahma, the Creator, was born in a lotus that emerged from the milky cosmic ocean. He became eager to find the source of his origin. He searched in all four directions, and in the attempt ...
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