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  2. Khnum - Wikipedia

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    Khnum (left) fashions the god Ihy (middle) on a potter's wheel, with the help of the goddess Heqet, Dendera Temple. Horus, emperor Commodus and Khnum drawing a net with birds of the marshs and fishes, inner north wall, Temple of Khnum, Esna, Egypt.

  3. Creation of life from clay - Wikipedia

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    "Prometheus Creating Man in Clay" by Constantin Hansen Creation of Adam from a block of clay in the Great Canterbury Psalter Khnum (right) is a creator god who forms humans and gods out of clay. Here Isis (left) gives life. The creation of life from clay can be seen as a miraculous birth theme that appears throughout world religions and ...

  4. Ancient Egyptian pottery - Wikipedia

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    The ram-headed potter god Khnum makes the divine child Ihy (Horus/the king) on a potter's wheel and Isis-Hathor fills him with life. On the other hand, pottery production had an important place in Egyptian culture. As part of everyday life it belonged to a level where perfection did not matter.

  5. Elixir of life - Wikipedia

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    The mythological White Hare from Chinese mythology, brewing the elixir of life on the Moon. The elixir of life (Medieval Latin: elixir vitae), also known as elixir of immortality, is a potion that supposedly grants the drinker eternal life and/or eternal youth. This elixir was also said to cure all diseases.

  6. Philosopher's stone - Wikipedia

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    Unicornis est Deus, nobis petra Christus, nobis lapis angularis Jesus, nobis hominum homo Christus (One-horned is God, Christ the rock to us, Jesus the cornerstone to us, Christ the man of men to us.) [25] In some texts, it is simply called "stone", or our stone, or in the case of Thomas Norton's Ordinal, "oure delycious stone". [26]

  7. Meaning of life - Wikipedia

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    The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.

  8. The Symbolic Meaning Behind the Bedrooms in 'Are You There ...

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    The movie Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. —in theaters now and based on iconic author Judy Blume’s novel of the same name—captures just that. A big part of what shapes that coming-of ...

  9. The Death of God and the Meaning of Life - Wikipedia

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    The Death of God and the Meaning of Life is a book by Julian Young, in which the author examines the meaning of life in today's secular, ...