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  • of both marital fertility and the sacred law. She is invoked as the ... 30 stades from Phigaleia, and has a cave sacred to Demeter Melaine ["Black ...
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  • traditional Chinese medicine, music, art, military strategy, and martial ... Five Government Ministers, Five Sacred Mountains of Taoism, Five ...
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  • the ruins of ancient monasteries, a sacred Bodhi tree, an ancient bathing ... Image:LumbiniFlags.JPG | Flags near the Sacred Pool (Puskarni) ...
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  • Osiris, god of the dead, passing on his sacred powers to his son, the new ... of both nature and fertility. The sacred cobras depicted on his crown ...
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  • immortal stallions (Iliad v.352). His sacred birds were the barn owl, ... In later Renaissance and Neoclassical works of art, Ares' symbols ...
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  • Brigid also founded a school of art, including metal work and illumination ... in their names the presence of a sacred well ("Tobar" in ...
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  • Enlil and the grain goddess Ninlil. His sacred city was Ur, and temples ... of sun and morning star (Venus). In art, his symbols are the crescent ...
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  • one of the first major training grounds for art dance in the U.S. ... Denishawn aimed to demonstrate that dance could be a serious art while ...
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  • Basilica di San Francesco, which contains sacred relics of Francis and beautiful ... have made it a fundamental reference for art history in Europe and in the ...
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  • Lord Elgin was legally entitled to these art pieces as he obtained them ... and majesty of these wonderful works of art has been under-appreciated ...
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  • her formal education at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis, where ... entered the St. Louis Catholic Academy of the Sacred Heart. ...
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  • Nepal, and Sikkim). Tibetan art is primarily sacred art, drawing elements from the religions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Bon, and various tribal groups ...
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  • 18th Dynasty. State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich.jpg| ... restin in this place, great of fame, sacred of respect, the shade of ...
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  • Art historian F.S. Tern divided the remains at Champa into seven phases ... * Olsen, Brad. 2004. Sacred Places Around the World: 108 Destinations ...
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  • himself the authority usually reserved to sacred kingship. The poet declares ... * [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hesiod/index.htm Sacred Texts: ...
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  • greatest masterpieces of classical Greek art—the Parthenon, the Propylaea ... A sizable temple, sacred to "Athena Polias" (Protectress ...
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  • to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets ... * [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/index.htm "The Book of ...
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  • "Initiation recapitulates the sacred history of the world. And ... of which adolescents gain access to the sacred, to knowledge, and to sexuality ...
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  • Cleary, Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment by Zen Master ... as unlikely and improbable.Dumoulin, 97.Sacred Texts, [http://www.sacred ...
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  • d. 829), the defender of the veneration of sacred images; his works include ... Among the monasteries which excelled in the art of copying were the Studium ...
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