In India there are large areas geographically distant from the Muslim religio-political centre of power in which customs are still Hindu and even pre-Hindu and in which people worship a motley of saints and deities in common with the Hindus.
It was there that I came to understand how ancient Greek mythology was born, how when one looks, one can see the gods and deities living in the clouds.
Ganesha, also known as Ganapati and Vinayaka, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon.
Among the essential factors in an overall picture of Native American dance are the diverse types of dance, the organization of the dances in terms of participation, and the relations of human and deity expressed in the dances.
These show him engaged in the traditional activities of an ancient Mesopotamian king: building and restoring temples, city walls, and public buildings, digging canals, dedicating cult objects to the deities in the cities and towns of his realm, and fighting wars.
PANORAMAS OF THE MOVING IMAGE Wonder and beauty are the ruling deities in the Titus Lobby Galleries of the Museum of Modern Art, where artifacts from persistence-of-vision toys and a video installation of magic-lantern slides are on view.
As well as marking the boundary, they defined the sacred geometry of the city and referred to important seats of deities in the ceremonial centre of the Copán.
During the first kingdom, the pantheon had three genres of deities; in the first and most common there were pairs of gods, such as the deity and his female consort, or divine twosomes such as the deities that cooperate to create the cosmos, as in the Egyptian and Mesopotamian pantheons.
Today, the leading deities in the Batur Temple are Dewi Danu (The Goddess of the Lake) and Ratu Meduwe Gumi (The Ruler Who Owns the World, also called Waturenggong, Toh Langkir and Putrajaya).
She portrayed both deities in the title work.
