He stops short of saying there have been any great feminist epiphanies, but there were certainly many surprising answers to his questions.
In this way he has moved from the deeply personal emotional conflicts and epiphanies of his earlier songs to what he sees as a more political message.
Her nunlike renunciation of normal life should be seen in the context of a culture in which epileptics were forbidden by law in some states to marry.There was, it seems, a medical reality behind the apparent mystical epiphanies and out-of-body experiences described in her work.
Now two men hope to prove that not only is there oil, but that Moses pointed to it.In the 1980s John Brown, a Catholic Texan cutting-tools executive, and Tovia Luskin, a Russian Jewish geophysicist and career oilman, both had religious epiphanies.
A cycle longer than that of the seasons is represented by the recurrent avatāras (epiphanies, incarnate, on Earth) of the Hindu god Vishnu (Viṣṇu) and in the corresponding series of buddhas and bodhisattvas (potential buddhas).
A number of other European water shrines are associated with epiphanies of Mary (e.g., the Shrine of the Madonna of the Baths at Scafati, Italy).
He wrote verses and experimented with short prose passages that he called "epiphanies," a word that Joyce used to describe his accounts of moments when the real truth about some person or object was revealed.
Elaborate cultic practices surround those sources of water that have been the scenes of epiphanies (manifestations of deities or sacred beings) or in which divinities are believed to dwell.
These same basic features unusual natural characteristics, scenes of epiphanies, locations associated with the life or the burial place of holy men, or great national landmarks—are present in other varieties of healing shrines (e.g., those associated with sacred trees, stones, or mountain peaks).
Rather than a god who dwelt in his temple, the diasporic traditions evolved complicated techniques for achieving visions, epiphanies (manifestations of a god), or heavenly journeys to a transcendent god.
Prominent in such Saturnalian traditions are deities such as the Greek god Dionysus, who can assume vegetable, animal, or human forms at will, who is a god of sudden, dramatic epiphanies (manifestations) and license, and whose devotees, through orgiastic rituals, participate in his freedom to break all bounds in order to recover the boundless vitality and fecundity of primordial chaos.
