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Bat (goddess), a goddess of music and dance, was depicted as a woman with bovine ears and horns, as was Hathor, a very major goddess who borrowed a lot of her attributes from Bat. The great antiquity of the worship of Bat is evidenced by her appearance on the Narmer Palette , made by the very first of the dynastic pharaohs.
Mingle was the author of several books, including: [note 1] Science Of Love With Key To Immortality. (1926) Spiritual Significance Of The Body. (1936) Steps in the Way - Volume 1. (1929) Steps in the Way - Volume 2. (1929) Universal Significance Of World Events. (1930) Poems Of Truth And Meditations. (1924) Booklets. The Fourth Dimension (1923)
In the Vendidad, it is stated that the spirits of a thousand deceased dogs are reincarnated in a single otter ("water dog"), hence the killing of an otter is a terrible crime that brings drought and famine upon the land and must be atoned either by the death of the killer [50] or by the killer performing a very long list of deeds considered ...
The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. [1] [2] [3] [note 1] Traditionally, spirituality is referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape of man", [note 2] oriented at "the image of God" [4] [5] as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world.
Calhoun himself saw the fate of the population of mice as a metaphor for the potential fate of humankind. He characterized the social breakdown as a "spiritual death", [10] with reference to bodily death as the "second death" mentioned in the Biblical verse Revelation 2:11. [10] The implications of the experiment are controversial.
The Homeric Gods: Spiritual Significance of Greek Religion (German: Die Götter Griechenlands. Das Bild des Göttlichen im Spiegel des griechischen Geistes, lit. 'The Gods of Greece: The Image of the Divine in the Mirror of the Greek Spirit') is a book about ancient Greek religion, published in 1929 and written by the philologist Walter F. Otto.
Swedenborg's 12-volume Arcana Coelestia provides verse-by-verse details of the inner meaning of Genesis and part of Exodus; the work Apocalypse Revealed [8] does the same for the Book of Revelation. The Arcana Coelestia, for example, explains how the creation and development of the human mind corresponds to the seven days of creation in Genesis ...
Finally, in the third part of the book, Wilby looks at the significance of this tradition for Britain's spiritual heritage. Reviews of the book published in specialist academic journals were mixed, with some scholars supporting and others rejecting Wilby's theory, although all noted the importance of such a work for witchcraft studies.