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![Tara](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14408.jpg?v=1688155029)
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Tara
Tara is a female deity in both Hinduism and Buddhism who personifies compassion and offers salvation from the suffering of rebirth and death. She is thought to have been born of empathy for the suffering world and is regularly invoked for...
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Hill of Tara
The Hill of Tara is an ancient Neolithic Age site in County Meath, Ireland. It was known as the seat of the High Kings of Ireland, the site of coronations, a place of assembly for the enacting and reading of laws, and for religious festivals...
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White Tara and Green Tara
White Tara and Green Tara, distemper on cloth painting, 1450-1500, Guge, Western Tibet.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
![Tara Statue](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14404.jpeg?v=1637940602)
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Tara Statue
Statue of the goddess Tara. Bihar, 10th century.
Indian Museum, Calcutta
![Flann Sinna](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/8359.png?v=1646173802)
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Flann Sinna
Flann Sinna (r. 879-916 CE) was a High King of Ireland from the Kingdom of Mide (Meath) and a member of the Clann Cholmain, a branch of the Southern Ui Neill dynasty. His name is pronounced “Flahn Shinna” and means “Flann of the Shannon”...
![The Tara Brooch](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/13459.jpg?v=1618771506)
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The Tara Brooch
The Tara Brooch is a Celtic penannular brooch discovered not at Tara but on a beach near Bettystown in County Meath, Ireland. Made in the 8th century CE from gilded silver with glass, amber and enamel inlay. 8.9 centimetres (3.5 in) in diameter...
![Statue of St. Patrick, Hill of Tara](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/4027.jpg?v=1632431703)
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Statue of St. Patrick, Hill of Tara
Statue of St. Patrick, Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland. Erected 2000 CE.
![Stone of Destiny, Hill of Tara](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5282.png?v=1716365225)
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Stone of Destiny, Hill of Tara
The Neolithic Lia Fail (Stone of Destiny), Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, by which the ancient kings were inaugurated.
![Saint Patrick's Statue at Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/18639.jpg?v=1709653962-1709710706)
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Saint Patrick's Statue at Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland
Saint Patrick's statue, Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, erected in 2000 to replace an earlier work that had been destroyed.
![Seated Green Tara](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14408.jpg?v=1688155029)
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Seated Green Tara
Goddess Green Tara seated with hand in a gesture of gift-giving (Varadamudra), gilt bronze with red pigment and gemstones, Southern Tibet, 14th century.
The Art of Institute Chicago.