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At the feet of the goddess : A comparative study of local goddess worship in Khurdapur, a village settlement in Orissa and Cholavandan, a small town in Tamilnadu
This thesis is an examination of the local goddesses and their worship in two contrasting field sites. The settlement of Khurdapur consists of five small villages situated a short distance outside Bhubaneswar in Orissa. Cholavandan, on the other hand, is a small town located near to Madurai in …
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Redemption and the Other: The Supernatural Narrator and the Intertextual (Sub)version of the Miltonic Command
… the Canaanite authors wished to rid the world of Goddess worship and, by humanizing Eve, they successfully obliterate that form of worship. As a result of this obliteration of the Goddess, Eve, as a humanized form of the ancient Goddess Asherah, remains unredeemed for her sin and forever held to …
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Goddess in Flux: Devotional Intimacy and Everyday Life at a Regional Indian Pilgrimage Site
… pilgrimage temple of Rani Bhatiyani, a Hindu goddess, in rural Rajasthan. Informed by scholarship on lived religion, it examines aspects of rural life that have hitherto been unrecognized as important to religious sphere within Hindu studies. Through ethnographic research, this study brings …
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Representations of the muse in the writings of Robert Graves: a study of five prose texts (1944-1950)
… are presented in their entirety in The White Goddess - A Historical Grammar o f Poetic Myth (1948). However, this dissertation aims to argue that Graves’s four prose works, published in the 1940s and early 1950s - written at almost the same time as he was composing various drafts of the …