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A cypherpunk is one who advocates the widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a means of effecting social and political change. The cypherpunk movement originated in the late 1980s and gained traction with the establishment of the "Cypherpunks" electronic mailing list in 1992, where informal groups of activists, technologists, and cryptographers discussed ...
Bes appears as a character in Otherland: volume 3 Mountain of Black Glass (1999) by Tad Williams. His physical description reflects traditional iconography. Bes is a friend and helper to the heroes in Pyramid Scheme (2001) by Eric Flint and Dave Freer. Bes appears, as a god of love in the Egyptian movie Secret Service Suitor (Aris min geha ...
Bast — The god of pleasure, poetry and dance; Bes — The god of luck and probability; Geb — The god of the Earth; Horus — The god of the Sun; Isis — The goddess of fertility; Khonshu — The god of the Moon; Neith — The goddess of the Earth; Nun — The god of the watery abyss; Nut — The goddess of the sky; Osiris — The god of ...
"ISIS chops off heads, incinerates hostages, kills gays, enslaves girls. Obama: Blame the Crusades," she wrote on Twitter. Another conservative pundit, Dereck Hale, also vented his outrage on Twitter.
Isis, Serapis and their child Harpocrates In Egyptian mythology, Horus was the child of Isis and Osiris.Osiris was the original divine pharaoh of Egypt, who had been murdered by his brother Set (by interpretatio graeca, identified with Typhon or Chaos), mummified, and thus became the god of the underworld.
Bruce Bethke (born 1955) is an American author best known for his 1983 short story "Cyberpunk" which led to the widespread use of the term for the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. His novel, Headcrash , won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1995 for SF original paperback published in the US.
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She also oversaw seas and harbors. Sailors left inscriptions calling upon her to ensure the safety and good fortune of their voyages. In this role she was called Isis Pelagia, "Isis of the Sea", or Isis Pharia, referring to a sail or to the island of Pharos, site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. [165]