6 sentences with 'goddess'
Example sentences and phrases with the word goddess and other words derived from it.
• « The goddess Juno immersed herself in the spring of Cabura, in Mesopotamia, and from then on that foul-smelling fountain had great medicinal power. »
• « They tell the story of a mother goddess (Ishtar) who descends to the world of the dead to seek the sacred elixir that will bring her son and her husband, Tammuz, back to life. »
• « Daughter of the great conqueror Sargon of Akkad, Enheduanna served as the high priestess of the goddess Innana and the moon god Nanna in the city of Ur after its conquest by Sargon's forces. »
• « The Egyptian goddess Isis, who was at the heart of the largest mystery cult in the entire Mediterranean region, was so popular among women and men that repeated attempts to purge her cult from Rome as socially disruptive failed utterly. »
• « Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus (1485) celebrates a key moment in Greek mythology when the goddess of love, sexuality and beauty is born from the sea. »
• « Perhaps this plant owes its nickname "Venus" to Botticelli's painting of the young goddess emerging from the shells of a seashell. »