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  2. Kamakhya - Wikipedia

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    Kamarupa ("form of desire") is the region in which the yoni ("vulva," "womb," or "source") is said to have fallen to earth, and the Kamakhya temple was said to have been constructed on this spot. Devotees believe that, In Nilachal hill the yoni of Sati fell, And that yoni took the form of a woman who is called Kamakhya. The yoni is the place ...

  3. Mimetic theory - Wikipedia

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    We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires." [2] Mimetic theory has two main parts - the desire itself, and the resulting scapegoating. Girard's idea proposes that all desire is merely an imitation of another's desire, and the desire only occurs because others have deemed said object as worthwhile.

  4. The Desire of Ages - Wikipedia

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    The Desire Of Ages (1990), 2 vols: bk. 1 From Heaven With Love; bk. 2 The Destiny Of The World Decided. Messiah: A Contemporary Adaptation Of The Classic Work On Jesus' Life, The Desire Of Ages (2002), 447 pp. Modern paraphrase of DA. Story Of Jesus: From The Manger To The Throne (2003), 141 pp. Adaptation of DA for children.

  5. List of love and lust deities - Wikipedia

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    Himeros, god of sexual desire and unrequited love. Hedylogos, god of sweet talk and flattery. Heracles; Hermaphroditus, god of hermaphrodites and effeminate men. Hermes; Hymen, god of marriage, weddings, and the bridal hymn. Pothos, god of sexual longing, yearning, and desire. Hedone, goddess of pleasure.

  6. Concupiscence - Wikipedia

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    He taught that Adam's sin [a] is transmitted by concupiscence, or "hurtful desire", [7] [8] resulting in humanity becoming a massa damnāta (mass of perdition, condemned crowd), with much enfeebled, though not destroyed, freedom of will. [9] Augustine insisted that concupiscence was not a being but a bad quality, the privation of good or a ...

  7. Argument from desire - Wikipedia

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    The argument from desire is an argument for the existence of the immortality of the soul. [1] The best-known defender of the argument is the Christian writer C. S. Lewis . Briefly and roughly, the argument states that humans' natural desire for eternal happiness must be capable of satisfaction, because all natural desires are capable of ...

  8. Lot (biblical person) - Wikipedia

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    The story, usually called Lot and his daughters, has been the subject of many paintings over the centuries, and became one of the subjects in the Power of Women group of subjects, warning men against the dangers of succumbing to the temptations of women, while also providing an opportunity for an erotic depiction. The scene generally shows Lot ...

  9. Venus (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The gesture traditionally held apotropaic or magical power. [20] Venus Caelestis (Celestial or Heavenly Venus), used from the 2nd century AD for Venus as an aspect of a syncretised supreme goddess. Venus Caelestis is the earliest known Roman recipient of a taurobolium (a form of bull sacrifice), performed at her shrine in Pozzuoli on 5 October 134.