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Hu (ḥw), in ancient Egypt, was "the personification of a religious term, the 'creative utterance'" and closely connected to Sia. [1] Hu was deification of the first word, the word of creation , that Atum was said to have exclaimed upon ejaculating in his masturbatory act of creating the Ennead .
The forint (Hungarian pronunciation: ⓘ, sign Ft; code HUF) is the currency of Hungary.It was formerly divided into 100 fillér, but fillér coins are no longer in circulation.
Hu (Chinese: 胡; pinyin: Hú; Wade–Giles: Hu; IPA: ) also Huren (胡人, "Hu people") or Huzu (胡族, "Hu tribes"), was a rather vague term to designate ancient barbarians, namely populations beyond the Central Plains, generally to the north and west of the Huaxia realm. The Hu are usually horse or mounted nomads.
After the introduction of paper money of the Austro-Hungarian gulden (Hungarian: forint) in Hungary, the term pengő forint was used to refer to forint coins literally meaning 'ringing forint', figuratively meaning 'silver forint' or 'hard currency'. [2] At the beginning of the First World War, precious metal coins were recalled from circulation.
Illustration for John Milton's Paradise Lost by Gustave Doré (1866). The spiritual descent of Lucifer into Satan, one of the most famous examples of hubris.. Hubris (/ ˈ h juː b r ɪ s /; from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris) 'pride, insolence, outrage'), or less frequently hybris (/ ˈ h aɪ b r ɪ s /), [1] describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride [2] or dangerous ...
Hu (Sufism), a name for God; Hu (ritual baton), an early Chinese writing utensil later used in Daoist rituals; Hú, a kachina in Hopi mythology; Adir Hu, a hymn sung at the Passover Seder; Hu Gadarn (or Hu the Mighty), a Welsh legendary figure; HU, a mantra popularized by the religion Eckankar as a name for and love song to God
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
The term ' Hu ' was adopted to refer to the non-Han Chinese population which could include the ancient 'Hu' northern nomadic people, such as the Xiongnu, [1] as well as the people from the Western regions such as Sogdians, [7]: 284 the Sasanid Persian, the Turkic people (Tujue), Uyghur (Huihe or Huihu), Tibetans (Tufan), and the Khitans (Qidan) who lived in the north and west regions of the ...