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The Kongo cosmogram (also called yowa or dikenga cross, Kikongo: dikenga dia Kongo or tendwa kia nza-n' Kongo) is a core symbol in Bakongo religion that depicts the physical world (Ku Nseke), the spiritual world (Ku Mpémba), the Kalûnga line that runs between the two worlds, the sacred river that forms a circle through the two worlds, the four moments of the sun, and the four elements.
A religious symbol is an iconic representation intended to represent a specific religion, or a specific concept within a given religion. [ 1 ] Religious symbols have been used in the military in many countries, such as the United States military chaplain symbols .
The group’s spiritual home is the Temple of ECK in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Eckankar is not affiliated with any other religious group. [5] The movement teaches simple spiritual exercises, such as singing "HU ", called "a love song to God", to experience the "light" and "sound" of God and recognize the presence of the Holy Spirit. [6] [7] [8]
People have been found to perceive images with spiritual or religious themes or import, sometimes called iconoplasms or simulacra, in the shapes of natural phenomena. The images perceived, whether iconic or aniconic , may be the faces of religious notables or the manifestation of spiritual symbols in the natural, organic media or phenomena of ...
They are also used as symbols of religious identification. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The main body of a mala usually consists of 108 beads of roughly the same size and material as each other, although smaller versions, often factors of 108 such as 54 or 27, exist. [ 2 ]
Mandala of Vishnu. In Hinduism, a basic mandala, also called a yantra, takes the form of a square with four gates containing a circle with a centre point.Each gate is in the general shape of a T. [3] Mandalas often have radial balance.
Hun and po are types of souls in Chinese philosophy and traditional religion.Within this ancient soul dualism tradition, every living human has both a hun spiritual, ethereal, yang soul which leaves the body after death, and also a po corporeal, substantive, yin soul which remains with the corpse of the deceased.
Esoteric Christianity is a mystical approach to Christianity which features "secret traditions" that require an initiation to learn or understand. [1] The term esoteric was coined in the 17th century and derives from the Greek ἐσωτερικός (esôterikos, "inner").