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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.
Hoodoo is an ethnoreligion that, in a broader context, functions as a set of spiritual observances, traditions, and beliefs—including magical and other ritual practices—developed by enslaved African Americans in the Southern United States from various traditional African spiritualities and elements of indigenous American botanical knowledge.
Ghost stories. Long before "The Nightmare Before Christmas" combined the spooky with the sentimental for popular entertainment, people bonded around eerie stories at Christmastime.
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 ...
The Seven Grandfather Teachings are traditional guiding principles for living a good life still in use by Anishnaabe peoples today. (They originate from the Potowatomi and Ojibwe tribes specifically.) [ 9 ] These teachings include wisdom, respect, love, honesty, humility, bravery, and truth, and are supposed to be practiced towards humans, the ...
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 ...
The term has been commonly known among diasporas since at least the 1980s. The term confused is used to describe the psychological state of many second-generation South Asian Americans who struggle to balance values and traditions taught at home with attitudes and practices that are more conducive to the culture of The United States.