Most monsters are visibly female due to having female secondary sex characteristics ("Mist Valley Shaman", "Performance of Sword"), but some are only shown to be female in card text: they have female pronouns or feminine word forms in their names ("Archfiend Empress", "Serpentine Princess")...
These particular prayers have been supported by the shift in biblical hermeneutics that considers the role of the readers in assigning meaning to the biblical text, and furthermore, they have continued this shift. The authors invite the female victims, who supposedly read these texts, to bring ...
Why? The evoked primacy and the primitivism of the corporal attitude are here to underline the main problem—the desacralisation of woman—in a religious but also in a cultural meaning. It is not an accident; a similar message can be found in Kąciki ust (The Corners of the Mouth), ...
The worldview of both Bektaşis and Alevis is based on batini, the esoteric, interpretation of Islam that concentrates on the inner meaning of religion. As such, they generally abstain from institutionalized Islamic practices such as daily prayer and fasting during the month of Ramadan. Bekta...