Sentence examples for rain spirit from inspiring English sources

In the Trocadero Museum in Paris he had been impressed by a plaster cast of a limestone Chac Mool a Mayan representation of the rain spirit, depicted as a male reclining figure with its knees drawn up together, its staring head at a right angle to its body, and its hands holding on its stomach a flat dish for sacrifices.

Together with masked dancers representing clouds, rain spirits, stars, earth mother, sky god, and others, the shaman takes part in elaborate ceremonies designed to ensure crop fertility.

"Do you believe in the power of the Rain?" the spirit hisses.

They are exuberant, unleashed from classrooms on the first sunny day after months of rain, high spirits frowned upon in the wartime Britain of the novel.

I'm not allowed to mention too many of the family specifics, but at one point Rain's spirits tell her I have African blood.

There were quietly intense moments, too, including Angel Lam's haunting "Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain," in which wilting bass notes and the breathy, swirling sounds of the shakuhachi suggest a porous border between the physical and spiritual worlds.

A one-time dotcom boom town, home to companies like Starbucks, Amazon, Microsoft and plenty of start-ups — and also a leading city of the anti-globalisation movement, Seattle is packed with entrepreneurial spirit, rain and contradictions.

Let me tell you, though the day was wet, no amount of rain dampened the spirit and hopes of that event.

Tonight heavy rain has dampened spirits.

Still, Mr. Morrin said, the weekend rain should lift spirits, even if it does not fill reservoirs.

We're the famous Eng-er-land and we're off to Wemb-er-ley!" The record crowd of 45,000 England fans may have left with hopes of a glorious victory dashed by the European champions, Germany, as the second-ranked team in the world beat the home side 3-0, butheyey refused to let the result, or the rain, dampen their spirits.