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This is a list of flying mythological creatures. This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures.
A list of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs, including decorative ornaments, patterns, auspicious symbols, and iconography elements, used in Chinese visual arts, sorted in different theme categories. Chinese symbols and motifs are more than decorative designs as they also hold symbolic but hidden meanings which have been used and understood by the Chinese people for thousand of years ...
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 ), and Oklahoma (the Cherokee Nation and United Keetowah Band of Cherokee Indians ). Some of the beliefs, and the stories and songs in which they have ...
Spirit: The English word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning breath. In religion and spirituality, the respiration of the human being has for obvious reasons been strongly linked with the very occurrence of life.
The thunderbird is said to create thunder by flapping its wings (Algonquian [3] ), and lightning by flashing its eyes (Algonquian, Iroquois [4] ). Across cultures, thunderbirds are generally depicted as birds of prey, or hybrids of humans and birds. [1]
This is a list of soaring birds, which are birds that can maintain flight without wing flapping, using rising air currents. Many gliding birds are able to "lock" their extended wings by means of a specialized tendon.
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Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. They tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws, or a preferred lifestyle from their ideas about the cosmos and human nature. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious ...