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GOD'S and HEROES: Events CELEBRATING SUPERNATURAL or LARGER THAN LIFE FIGURES
Posted on September 17, 2014 Posted by Thought Gallery
By Troy Segal
We all need to look up from time to time, and idolize beings greater than ourselves. Here are some talks, readings and activities that hail the heroes — and the antiheroes — be they real, fictional or mythological.
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Have dinner with the devil (hey, he’s sometimes more fun than the saints) at this entertainment-filled evening, which also features live music and an exhibit of, and readings from, The Satanic Verses of Bones Banez by surrealist painter/author Bienvenido Banez, at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Sept. 19.
Delve into the depiction of gods and goddesses, and how these mighty images cast in stone and bronze formed the backbone of Jainism, Tantra and other ancient South Asian religions.
