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2. 17 Traditional Christmas Symbols (Including Bells, Holly and ...

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   Shaped like a shepherd’s staff, the minty confection represents the shepherds who searched for Jesus on the night that He was born. Another meaning behind the hooked shape of the candy is that ...

3. Tree of life (Kabbalah) - Wikipedia

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   The tree of life ( Hebrew: עֵץ חַיִּים, romanized : ʿēṣ ḥayyim or no: אִילָן‎, romanized : ʾilān, lit. 'tree') is a diagram used in Rabbinical Judaism in kabbalah and other mystical traditions derived from it. [ 1] It is usually referred to as the "kabbalistic tree of life" to distinguish it from the tree of life that ...

4. Nativity of Jesus in art - Wikipedia

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   The Nativity of Jesus has been a major subject of Christian art since the 4th century. The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas, are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and further elaborated by written, oral and artistic tradition.

5. Celestial spheres - Wikipedia

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   Celestial spheres. The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and others. In these celestial models, the apparent motions of the fixed stars and planets are accounted for by treating them as embedded in rotating spheres made of ...

6. Armillary sphere - Wikipedia

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   An armillary sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of objects in the sky (on the celestial sphere ), consisting of a spherical framework of rings, centered on Earth or the Sun, that represent lines of celestial longitude and latitude and other astronomically important features, such as the ecliptic.

7. Celestial globe - Wikipedia

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   Celestial globes show the apparent positions of the stars in the sky. They omit the Sun, Moon, and planets because the positions of these bodies vary relative to those of the stars, but the ecliptic, along which the Sun moves, is indicated. There is an issue regarding the “ handedness ” of celestial globes. If the globe is constructed so ...

8. Christmas lights - Wikipedia

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   Christmas lights in Verona, Italy. Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights, festive lights or string lights) are lights often used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide. The custom goes back to when Christmas trees were decorated with candles, which ...

9. Meaning of life - Wikipedia

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   The mystery of life and its true meaning is an often recurring subject in popular culture, featured in entertainment media and various forms of art. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life includes a character played by Michael Palin being handed an envelope containing "the meaning of life", which she opens and reads out to the audience: "Well, it's ...