There it has a generative power of its own, and all that it creates will be in its own image.
Lingam, (Sanskrit: "sign" or "distinguishing symbol")also spelled linga, in Hinduism, a votary object that symbolizes the god Shiva and is revered as an emblem of generative power.
He argues for a symbiotic theory of man's making and nature's activity that views the built environment as a form of nature, one that nourishes the generative power as well as other enduring qualities of nature.
This paper presents a proposal complementing the generative power of shape grammars with reinforcement learning techniques.
The giant bed was on the right as you came in, and in red frames, arranged around its semicircular headboard, were baby photographs of their children, all nine of us — an altar to the generative power of my parents' marriage.
Reminiscent of Nishida's absolute nothingness as a creative source, the Daodejing refers to the generative power of nonbeing and to the non-nameable Dao or Way that gives rise to the myriad things.
The promise of stem cell research is that it may allow doctors to bend the rules of this harsh game just a little, by using the vast generative power of stem cells to extend life and health.
Ultimately however, Alexander rejected his second theory of architectural beauty as he felt it had too little generative power and too little focus on geometry.
There are nine temples in all, one of them rising majestically out of a small pond, along with numerous stone pillars and lingas, often regarded as the traditional phallic symbol of Shiva's generative power.
While acknowledging the ethical nature of human existence and the generative power of human action, I describe the shaman as a paradoxical figure with regard to the labor that produces him and the criteria that orient his actions.
