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The central wooden staff consists of a large Tangaroa and smaller male and female figures on one side, and on the other side, a naturalistic penis, is missing. [3] [4] Staff gods without the bark cloth wrappings can be found all over the world. Such as Metropolitan Museum of Art, [5] Israel Museum, [6] and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa ...
Gustaf Mannerheim as regent of Finland (sitting) and his adjutants (from the left) Lt. Col. Lilius, Cap.Kekoni, Lt. Gallen-Kallela, Ensign Rosenbröijer. A regent is a person selected to act as head of state (ruling or not) because the ruler is a minor, not present, or debilitated. [1]
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world. List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere; List of fictional deities; List of goddesses; List of people who have been considered deities; see also apotheosis, Imperial cult and Sacred king
The staff with the longest history seems [clarification needed] to be the heqa-sceptre (the "shepherd's crook"). The sceptre also assumed a central role in the Mesopotamian world, and was in most cases part of the royal insignia of sovereigns and gods.
In April 2012 the Board of Regents decided to formally consider a proposal that would eliminate Regents Examination in Global History and Geography as a graduation requirement for some students beginning September 2013. [29] [30] Global History and Geography is the most frequently failed examination. Under the proposal, students would be able ...
In the history of Japan, the Council of Five Elders (Japanese: 五大老, Hepburn: Go-Tairō) was a group of five powerful feudal lords (大名, daimyō) formed in 1598 by the Regent (太閤, Taikō) Toyotomi Hideyoshi, shortly before his death the same year. [1]
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The regenten as the cities' ruling class originated in the 13th century, arising over the course of time under the influence of several factors.Commoners managed to obtain emancipation from dependent status as serfs by making skillful use of the power struggle between the sovereign and the nobility; the result was that their towns became a new power in medieval feudal society which could ...