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First recorded in the 1658 Doctrina Christiana, [53] the Fon word Vôdoun was used in the West African kingdom of Dahomey to signify a spirit or deity. [54] In Haitian Creole, Vodou came to designate a specific style of dance and drumming, [ 55 ] before outsiders to the religion adopted it as a generic term for much Afro-Haitian religion. [ 56 ]
This Japanese compound kotodama combines koto 言 "word; speech" and tama 霊 "spirit; soul" (or 魂 "soul; spirit; ghost") voiced as dama in rendaku.In contrast, the unvoiced kototama pronunciation especially refers to kototamagaku (言霊学, "study of kotodama"), which was popularized by Onisaburo Deguchi in the Oomoto religion.
The plot consists of the personified virtues of Hope, Sobriety, Chastity, Humility, etc. fighting the personified vices of Pride, Wrath, Paganism, Avarice, etc.The personifications are women because in Latin, words for abstract concepts have feminine grammatical gender; an uninformed reader of the work might take the story literally as a tale of many angry women fighting one another, because ...
Woman comforting her friend. For decades, statistics have shown that 1 in 5 adults deal with mental illness every year—and according to the National Alliance on Mental Health, 2023 is no ...
ᏗᎵᏍᏙᏗ "dilsdohdi" [1] the "water spider" is said to have first brought fire to the inhabitants of the earth in the basket on her back. [2]Cherokee spiritual beliefs are held in common among the Cherokee people – Native American peoples who are Indigenous to the Southeastern Woodlands, and today live primarily in communities in North Carolina (the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...
5. Back to the Future (1985). Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson Rating: PG The sci-fi comedy still stands out as one of the most iconic films ever ...
The sheyd Ashmodai (אַשְמְדּאָי) in birdlike form, with typical rooster feet, as depicted in Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae, 1775 Child sacrifice to the sheyd Molekh (מֹלֶךְ), showing the typical depiction of the Ammonite deity Moloch of the Old Testament in medieval and modern sources (illustration by Charles Foster for Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, 1897)
As a result of the viral popularity of "Spirits" on TikTok, on September 10, 2020, the band re-released an official lyric video to the song more than 5 years since it was released to YouTube, which received more than 837K views as of March 23, 2022. [7]