Sentence examples for represented rain from inspiring English sources

A maritime exchange system stretched from the west coast of Mexico to southernmost Peru, trading mostly in Spondylus, which represented rain and fertility and was considered the principal food of the gods by the people of the Inca empire.

That notion is reinforced with a pinball game called Rainball, in which the player shoots balls representing rain that come to rest in the "Sound" at the bottom of the frame through various pathways -- a car wash, a factory, a farm.

These are the months immediately preceding the wet season, and, thus, although they do not account for a significant portion of the total annual precipitation, they do represent rain at the end of the dry season that provides some of the first relief.

Selected water potentials represented a light rain, heavy rain, single flood and successive flood event for the study site.

The kachina dancers are sacred and represent the rain gods.

In post-Classic Mayan and Toltec ruins, reclining figures known as the Chacs Mool are thought to represent the rain god.

Although nominally Christian, most Mixtec believe in an assortment of pre-Christian spirits and deities, and in some areas they worship stone idols representing the rain god.

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.

Snell is the custodian of an important ritual dance, the Kurtal ceremony, which is performed while carrying long, thread-wrapped boughs that represent the rain clouds controlled by the snake spirits.

Dale M. Cendali, a lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis who is representing the Rain Corporation, said in an e-mail statement that "it's really not appropriate for me to discuss pending litigation beyond what's in the complaint," a copy of which she included.

It includes the sinusoidal function representing a rain event reducing the bandwidth availability up to 400 kbps.