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  • rain magic, or dances for the dead. When sacred amulets were said to have ... of samurai loyalty and social harmony. In art and literature, Western styles ...
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  • religion of the Baltic area involved "sacred places and "sacred groves ... during this era. The first national art school, the Pallas school ...
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  • made from the snapping turtle, are sacred and used only for special ... Arts. He then pursued a career in commercial art after he moved to New York ...
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  • pipex.com/chthonios/proclus-sacred.htm On the Sacred Art] - (translation and discussion of this surviving extract from a larger work by Proclus). ...
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  • appease a deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, tribal, group ... in urns or ceramic vessels. Some Mayan art depict the extraction of children ...
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  • this knowledge, Watching the waves in a Sacred Sea to a Western-style title ... made by engravers like Wilson Lowry of art work supplied by specialist ...
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  • The engraved weapons on the sarsens are unique in megalithic art in ... its presence within a wider landscape of sacred sites. Many also believe ...
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  • *The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows and Interiors (trade publication ... *Sam Steele's Adventures--The Scream of the Sacred Ape (novel ...
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  • considered mythical beasts and animals sacred. They worshipped the phoenix ... Noted for the vigor of its imagery, Goguryeo art has been preserved ...
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  • of a ruler. It is often viewed as the sacred union of male and female ... the Harpies were more prominent in art works than in mythological ...
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  • Homer's great poems remained foundational works of art, not religious ... #039; men sacrifice the god's sacred cattle; Zeus kills all of ...
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  • in China's Anhui province considered sacred to Buddhists.]] ... the Anhui School. Berkeley, CA: University Art Museum. OCLC: 7225176 ...
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  • Lönnrot. In parts of Archangel Karelia this art form survives till the present day. ... * Elias Lönnrot, John Martin Crawford (tr.), 1888; [http://www.sacred ...
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  • numerous uses in architecture, mathematics, art, religion, and culture. ... used in kindling fire, and thus a symbol of sacred fire ...
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  • The Portuguese Macau considered Roman Catholic ground sacred and authorities ... residence, Old Protestant Cemetery and an art gallery. The garden serves ...
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  • and you will penetrate to the very shrine of art. You will make out intricacies ... of these motifs are used today in popular art including jewellery and tattoos. ...
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  • built near the second Cataract of the Nile. Art and literature flourished. ... also considered divine. Ancient Egyptian art in general is characterized ...
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  • : To Ceres (this) sacred (thing) : (Decimus Junius?) Juvenalis ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:Biography ...
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  • In February 1922, a festival of modern art took place in São Paulo ... it in Le Monde musicale, "[…it is] an art […] to which we must now ...
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  • Most residents of Buenos Aires have European origins, and the art ... arts, decorative arts, popular arts, sacred art, arts and crafts, theater ...
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