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Category: Words and phrases by culture. ... Greeting words and phrases of South Asia (4 C) I. Indian words and phrases (11 C, 41 P) K. Kabbalistic words and phrases ...
Raja Parba: also called Mithuna Sankranti is a four-day-long festival in Orissa and the second day signifies beginning of the solar month of Mithuna from, which the season of rains starts. Reh: festival celebrated by Idu-Mishmis in Nagaland; Paryushana: one of the two most important festivals for the Jains, the other being Diwali.
The confusion, seen in the common stock phrase "ye olde", derives from the use of the character thorn (þ), which in Middle English represented the sound now represented in Modern English by "th". [129] This evolved as early printing presses substituted the word the with "yͤ", a "y" character with a superscript "e". [130]
A word for female Hindu deities. Bhajan A Hindu devotional song as a spiritual practice. Bhakti A Hindu word for faith, devotion or love to god. Bharat India, and also used as a male name. Bharata Brother of Rama. Bhargava The descendants of the great rishi, Bhrigu. Bhasmasura Ancient legendary character in Hinduism. Bhavana Sense for calling ...
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery.A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire, or agriculture, songs, tradition, law or religion, and is usually the most important legendary figure of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a book by the Welsh Marxist academic Raymond Williams published in 1976 by Croom Helm.. Originally intended to be published along with the author's 1958 work Culture and Society, this work examines the history of more than a hundred words that are familiar and yet confusing: Art, Bureaucracy, Culture, Educated, Management, Masses, Nature ...
emoji, from Japanese e (絵, 'picture') and moji (文字, 'character') [45] emoticon, from emotion and icon [46] listicle, from list and article [5] machinima, from machine and cinema [47] Pokémon, from pocket and monster [5] textonym, from text and synonym [2] vortal, from vertical and portal [2] Microsoft, from microcomputer and software [48]
Trickster – Character in a story which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour; Tripurasura – Demonic inhabitants of Tripura; Tritons – Male human-fish hybrid; Troll – Nature spirit