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Geocentric celestial spheres; Peter Apian's Cosmographia (Antwerp, 1539). All the early Gnostics of whose opinions Irenaeus gives an account, in a section probably derived from an earlier writer, agree in the doctrine that the world was made by the instrumentality of archons (angels).
The names of Nu and Naunet are written with the determiners for sky and water, and it seems clear that they represent the primordial waters.. Ḥeḥ and Ḥeuḥet have no readily identifiable determiners; according to a suggestion due to Brugsch (1885), the names are associated with a term for an undefined or unlimited number, ḥeḥ, suggesting a concept similar to the Greek aion.
Americana artifacts are related to the history, geography, folklore, and cultural heritage of the United States of America. Americana is any collection of materials and things concerning or characteristic of the United States or of the American people, and is representative or even stereotypical of American culture as a whole. [1] [2]
I haven’t lit an advent wreath in nearly 25 years, but the sulfuric scent of a lit match still transports me back to my childhood: dripping wax, the kitchen aglow in candlelight and the elation ...
Homemade candy. Before sweets were mass-marketed, homemade treats of all kinds around the holidays were a common indulgence. Famous homemade Christmas goodies include fudge, gingerbread, peanut ...
Daniel Lapin (born January 1, 1947) is an American rabbi of Orthodox Judaism, author, and public speaker.He was previously the founding rabbi of the Pacific Jewish Center in Venice, California, [1] and the former head of Toward Tradition, the Commonwealth Loan Company and the Cascadia Business Institute.
When did America begin? Well, the United States became a country in 1776 and drafted a constitution in 1787. Seems simple enough, right?Yet many Americans remain unsatisfied with such an obvious ...
Later Nurhaci indicated that the bond with the Mongols was not based in any real shared culture. It was for pragmatic reasons of "mutual opportunism", since Nurhaci said to the Mongols: "You Mongols raise livestock, eat meat and wear pelts. My people till the fields and live on grain. We two are not one country and we have different languages ...