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  • * myths–sacred stories concerning the distant past, particularly ... * an Australian myth describing the first sacred bora ritual ...
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  • of the dichotomy between the sacred and the profane, his cross ... sociology, economics, linguistics, art, or any other study is false; ...
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  • viewed the world as infused with kami or sacred presence. Kami was manifest ... as a divine being and for the land as the sacred dwelling place of the gods ...
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  • Anonymous works such as sacred texts and folk tales may lack an obvious title: for instance, the Bible, Gilgamesh, Beowulf or the Chanson de ...
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  • for storytelling. A traditional male art form, warriors drew pictographic ... their artworks, resulting in "ledger art." At Fort Marion, St ...
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  • techne, Latin ars magica) "magical art." The word entered the ... of the sun.Maurice Bloomfield, [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/av.htm Hymns ...
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  • Castiglione, and Machiavelli; works of art by artists such as Michelangelo ... Also, the first stirrings of Renaissance art were to be seen in the opening ...
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  • Castrati were no doubt a beautiful contribution to the higher art ... and to compose vocal music, either sacred or secular depending on their ...
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  • 039;s most significant examples of Byzantine art, Orthodox icons, and both ... of painting influenced the history of Orthodox art." ...
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  • music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio ... his 'Stabat Mater' (1950). Other sacred works from this period include ...
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  • * At the first site, which was Epidaurus, sacred to Apollo and the ... Each of these sites was a very sacred place already of great antiquity ...
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  • in the employ of the church in Europe, sacred music composed for specific ... and emotional involvement. However, German art historian Erwin Panofsky unflatteringly ...
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  • In art, Saint Clement can be recognized as a pope with an anchor or ... * [http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/index.htm Two Epistles ...
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  • chief of this republic, well-educated in the art of writing or inscription. ... * [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/maha/index.htm The Mahabharata ...
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  • at Hampi and has been considered sacred over many centuries. Fully ... Under the Virjayanagara rulers early in the twelfth century, native ...
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  • Fractals are also prevalent in African art and architecture. Circular ... * Generation of various art forms * Signal and image compression ...
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  • The Magi were the sacred caste of the Medes from ancient Media (inhabitants ... ==The Magi Depicted in Art and Literature== [[image:Adoration.jpg|thumb ...
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  • that they leave, because that ground is sacred to the Furies, or Eumenides ... Theseus, saying, "I come as someone sacred, someone filled with piety ...
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  • is a place to which one comes to honor the sacred by whatever name the sacred ... of the divine) were erected, and sometimes a sacred tree. ...
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  • === Violence and the sacred === forth in his second book, Violence and the Sacred (1972). ...
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