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  • ...the exemption of the [[Israel]]ites from the slaughter of the firstborn in Egypt ([[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.1 ...eration]] from [[slavery]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt]
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  • ...s built as a tomb for [[Fourth dynasty of Egypt|Fourth dynasty]] [[ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] King [[Khufu]] (Cheops in Greek) and constructed over a 20 year ...'' notes "By themselves, of course, none of these modern labels define the ancient purposes of the architecture they describe." p. 8</ref> Queen's Chamber and
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  • ...Egypt] from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient [[Mediterranean]] world for writing or painting on and also for making rope ...also used throughout the [[Mediterranean]] region and in Kingdom of Kush. Ancient Egyptians are thought to have used papyrus as a [[writing]] material, as we
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  • ...ometimes considered to include adjoining territories. The name was used by Ancient Greek writers, and was later used for the Roman province [https://en.wikipe ...Achaemenid_Empire Persians], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks Ancient Greeks], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans], [https://en.w
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  • ...and money-lending systems that first developed in Ancient Israel, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and later, Rome. # Walzer, Michael (1994). "The Legal Codes of Ancient Israel". In Ian Shapiro. the Rule of Law. NY: New York University Press. pp
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  • [[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:Ancient-egypt-map.jpg|right|frame]] '''Ancient''' [[history]] is the [[study]] of the [[written]] [[past]] from the beginn
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  • ...ˈrɒbɔrəs/, from the [[Greek]] οὐροβόρος ὄφις tail-devouring snake) is an [[ancient]] symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. ...ile first emerging in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Ancient Egypt], the ''Ouroboros'' has been important in religious and [[mythological]] [[
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  • ....php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] [[origin]], there evolved in Egypt more of [[moral]] [[culture]] as a [[purely]] [[human]] [[development]] tha ...also augmented by the periodic arrival of [[teachers]] of [[truth]], in [[ancient]] times from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 s
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  • ...rm < ancient Greek πυραμίδ-, πυραμίς monumental structure built in ancient Egypt and used as a royal tomb, (in geometry) solid figure having the form of suc ...pointed shape, by others as < πυρός wheat, grain, as if a granary. Compare ancient [[Greek]] πυραμίς kind of cake, which does derive < πυρός wheat
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  • ...such as the tombs of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt ancient Egypt] * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum Mausolea] (including ancient pyramids in some countries) – external free-standing [[structures]], abov
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  • ...iting]] was common in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt ancient Egypt] as part of the scribal-school writing [[curriculum]]. The letters in the [
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  • ...t. Historically, letters exist from the [[time]] of ancient India, ancient Egypt and Sumer, through [[Rome]], [[Greek|Greece]] and China, up to the present
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  • ...st extent was that of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt ancient Egypt], which [[developed]] the [[process]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mum
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  • ...nt Egyptian] [[mythology]], Set (also spelled Seth, Sutekh or Seteh) is an ancient god, who was originally the god of the desert, [[Turbulence|Storms]], [[Dar ...should be destroyed, the pillar of stone would remain, both reporting the ancient discoveries, and informing men that a pillar of brick was also erected. Jos
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  • ...uring the time known as [[classical antiquity]], roughly spanning from the Ancient Greek [[Bronze Age]] in 1000 [[BCE]] to the [[Dark Ages]] circa [[Common Er ...eastern Mediterranean—the ancient [[Persian Empire]] and the [[kingdoms of ancient India]]—are termed [[Orientalists]].
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  • *1. an ancient [[manuscript]] [[text]] in [[book]] form. ...gradual replacement of the [[scroll]], the dominant form of book in the [[ancient]] world, has been termed the most important advance in the history of the b
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  • ...the ancient civilizations of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greece] and [https://en.wik
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  • .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Megiddo Har Megiddo]'', lit. ''Mount Megiddo''; Ancient Greek: Ἁρμαγεδών ''Harmagedōn'', Late Latin: ''Armagedōn'') is, ...dia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. Megiddo was the location of various ancient battles, including one in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megi
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  • ...ey came by way of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion Egypt] and were embodied in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Philosophy Occ ...les. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history#Classical_Antiquity ancient times] the [[Jews]] were famed as much for [[military]] [[valor]] as for [[
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  • ...ing of Alasia in Cyprus who has need of an 'eagle diviner' to be sent from Egypt. This earlier, indigenous [[practice]] of divining by bird signs, familiar In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome ancient Roman religion], the auspices provided divine [[signs]] to be [[interpreted
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  • ...rg/wiki/China China], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Ancient Egypt] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Empire Persian Empire]. Muc
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  • The great traditions in art have a foundation in the art of one of six ancient civilizations: * [[Mesopotamia]], [[Egypt]], [[India]], [[China]], [[Greece]], and [[Rome]]
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  • The great traditions in art have a foundation in the art of one of six ancient civilizations: * [[Mesopotamia]], [[Egypt]], [[India]], [[China]], [[Greece]], and [[Rome]]
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  • ...the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_dynasty_of_Egypt Fifth dynasty of Egypt], around 2400 BCE. Contrary to [[court]] jests, clowns have [[traditional]] ...iki/Pantomime pantomimus] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greece], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazzi Lazzi] of [https://en.wik
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  • ...been seen as signs of virility and [[leadership]]. (for example in ancient Egypt and Greece)
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  • ...naten]'s [[death]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Ancient Egypt].
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  • *1.one of an [[ancient]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic Semitic] people that formed the [[ *5.of or belonging to ancient Chaldea.
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  • ...nts promulgated by Melchizedek were [[patterned]] along the lines of the [[ancient]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:7._LIFE_IN_DA ...children]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus Israel came out of Egypt] in the days before the enlarged [[revelation]] of [[Yahweh]], they had [ht
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  • ...e dates back to 1500BC-500 BC ([[ancient India]]), 1300-1200 BC ([[ancient Egypt]]), and 1800 BC ([[Mesopotamia]]). From then on different cultures such as
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  • The term "Sumerian" is the common name given to the ancient non-Semitic inhabitants of [[Mesopotamia]], Sumer, by the Semitic [https:// ...org/wiki/Sumer#City-states_in_Mesopotamia city states] that became part of ancient [[Babylonia]].
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  • ...ay have originated in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Ancient Egypt], where the gums and resins of aromatic trees were imported from the Arabia
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  • ...g]] [[tribes]], especially to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], and [https://en. ...at Mother], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_god Sun], and other [[ancient]] [[cults]].
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  • ...as merely some ancient bearded scribe inking symbols on papyrus scrolls in Egypt. Close, Damascus! And that was all planted in your mind.
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  • ...political influence; The [[Book of Jeremiah]] (46:20, Darby Bible) states "Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north." The t
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  • ...mainly restricted to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Ancient Egypt]. However the distinction between high relief and low relief is the cleares ...es, such as [[battles]], than free-standing "sculpture in the round". Most ancient architectural reliefs were originally painted, which helped to define forms
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  • ...ia (where there are still more than 1,000 leper colonies), China, Romania, Egypt, Nepal, Somalia, Liberia, Vietnam, and Japan. Leprosy was once believed to
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  • ...rongly associated with [[art]] and [[Narrative|storytelling]] where it has ancient roots. Most [[cultures]] possess a long-standing fable [[tradition]] with a ...attributing such [[things]] as hands and eyes to God, including a sect in Egypt in the 4th century, and an heretical, 10th-century sect, who literally [[in
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  • ...''Dominate''' was the 'despotic' latter [[phase]] of [[government]] in the ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire Roman Empire] from the conclusi ...the Eastern [[potentates]] of ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Empire Persia] than by the heri
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  • ...unt Sinai] after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus flight from Egypt], he had formulated a new and enlarged [[concept]] of [[Deity]] (derived fr ...a]] of [[Deity]] to these ignorant [[slaves]] under the [[guise]] of the [[ancient]] term [[Yahweh]], which had always been [[symbolized]] by the [https://en.
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  • ...g to the [[Tanakh|Bible]], they played an important role in the history of ancient [[Israel]]. According to Petrine Sabis, Keturah was a Kenite. ...Ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt," said Saul to them [[Books of Samuel|I Samuel]] xv.6.); and so not only we
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  • ...[[heritage]] back to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt ancient Egypt], whose cultural [[achievements]] [[demonstrate]] racial abilities [[equal]
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  • ...n place during the reign of [[Ramesses III]] of the [[Twentieth dynasty of Egypt|Twentieth Dynasty]], ''ca.'' [[1180s BC|1180]] to [[1150s BC|1150 BC]]. The In Egypt, a people called the ''"Peleset"'' (or, more precisely, ''prst''), generall
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  • ...ages are common in many [[religions]], including the [[faiths]] in ancient Egypt, Persia in the Mithraic period, India, China, and Japan. The [[Greek]] and # Hanges, James Constantine (July 2000). "Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece by Matthew Dillon". The Journal of Religion 80 (3): 543–545. doi:1
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  • ...meant that God made Pharaoh resolve not to let the Israelite slaves leave Egypt, in order to bring judgment against Pharaoh and demonstrate his power: "'Go ...seeds are distinctly heart-shaped. Since this plant was widely used as an ancient herbal contraceptive or ''abortifacient'', this shape may have come to be a
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  • ..., for example, rulers were said to hold office by the will of God. Ancient Egypt, Japan, the Inca, the Aztecs, Tibet, Thailand, and the Roman Empire (see [h
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  • [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language Ancient Greek] ὀστρακισμός was so called because the banishment was eff ...[[accusation]] practiced in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greece]
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  • ...that worship spread to other regions of Egypt and, some suspect, to other ancient cultures that arose during the beginning of recorded human history. [[Herod
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  • ...phic]] circles of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_Religion Egypt] and later [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria Alexandrian ...of the Lord, The Almighty, The Holy One, The [[Most High]], Adonai, The [[Ancient of Days]], The Lord God of Israel, The [[Creator]] of [[Heaven]] and [[Eart
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  • ...was more exclusively [[Nodite]] in [[character]], and they clung to the [[ancient]] [[traditions]] of [[Dalamatia]]. Nonetheless, these [https://www.wikipedi ...by all peoples to the north and from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt] in the west to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India] in the east.
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  • 80:3.1 The [[ancient]] [[centers]] of the [[culture]] of the blue man were located along all the ...kipedia.org/wiki/India India] and [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt].
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  • ...ia Iran], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia ancient Mesopotamia], Egypt (Sixth to Twelfth dynasty), Muslim India, China (Zhou Dynasty, and end of H
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  • ...lesser extent, [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet Tibet] were the [[ancient]] gateways through which these peoples of [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wik ...e made their [[appearance]]. From [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt] through [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] and [h
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  • ...on your world: stone, brick, and mortar reflect their makers from Babylon, Egypt, Japan and Greece to your present time. They tell you who built with them a ...r mystical journey. Because compression is the force that mortar utilizes, ancient buildings still stand. Similarly, the mortar of your life compresses togeth
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  • ...]] in [[Hebrew]] writing or speech, as well as the common understanding in ancient [[magic]] that magical [[ritual]]s had to be carried out "in [someone's] na ...eated names which may or may not be variants or corruptions of existing or ancient names. Examples include Dors Venabili, R. Daneel Olivaw, and Giskard Revent
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  • ...rd ''hegeisthai'' (meaning "to lead"). An early example of hegemony during ancient Greek [[history]] occurred when Sparta became the hegemon of the [[Peloponn The concept of "Hegemony" was also present in ancient China, during the Spring and Autumn Perio] (ca. 770 BC - 480 BC), when the
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  • .../History_of_India India], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt]. ...]] [[thought]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_egyptian_religion Egypt], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamian_religion Mesopotamia], and [h
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  • ...ration from those not [[sharing]] the same [[purpose]]. The [[concept]] is ancient and can be seen in many [[religion]]s and in philosophy. ...ewish philosopher [[Philo]] (c. 20 BC - AD 50, resident in [[Alexandria]], Egypt) in his description of the life of the Therapeutae and Therapeutides, peopl
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  • It contains accounts of the kings of the ancient [[Kingdom of Israel]] and the [[Kingdom of Judah]], and the [[annal]]s of t ...], [[Moab]], [[Syria]], [[Israel]] (the northern kingdom), [[Ethiopia]], [[Egypt]], [[Arabia]], and [[Phoenicia]]. The prophecies concerning them can be su
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  • ...ia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran Iran], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/ ...ed]] [[Palestine]] as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtoreth Ashtoreth], Egypt as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis Isis], Greece as [https://en.wikiped
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  • ...eir spirit. When it comes to mercy, that of the most powerful ruler of the ancient world cannot possibly be compared to that of the “Emperor of All Creation ...ssion, Vitellius became Emperor in April AD 69. In response, the armies in Egypt and Judaea declared Vespasian emperor on 1 July.
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  • The [[Pharaoh]]s of Ancient Egypt were sometimes said to be incarnations of the gods [[Horus]] and [[Ra]].
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  • from ancient days. [4] For I brought you up from the land of Egypt,
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  • ...s at the time, especially the religions of ancient Akkad, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.
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  • ...Carthaginian]], [[Ancient Greece|Greek]], [[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] cultures. The [[history of the Mediterranean]] is crucial to u ...neus'', 'inland' (''medius'', 'middle' + ''terra'', 'land, earth'). To the ancient Romans, the Mediterranean was the center of the Earth as they knew it.
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  • ...t. The Greek spelling transliterates as "Delphoi" (with "o" added). and [[Ancient Greek dialects|dialectal]] forms '''Belphoi''' - [[Aeolic Greek|Aeolian]] f ...[[Mount Parnassus]], and includes the Sanctuary of Apollo, the site of the ancient [[Oracle]]. This semicircular spur is known as [[Phaedriades]], and overloo
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  • '''Atlantis''' (in [[Ancient Greek|Greek]], Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος}, "island of [[Atlas (mythol ...stic Atlantis in ''Critias'' &mdash; would have made the strategy of the [[Ancient Greece|Greek civilization]] during their conflict with the [[Achaemenid Emp
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  • ...ecorded beginnings of geometry can be traced to ancient [[Mesopotamia]], [[Egypt]], and the [[Indus Valley]] from around 3000 BCE. Early geometry was a coll
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  • ...rception over several decades whereby we are able to converse. Many of the ancient texts which were the foundation stones of world religions were received in ...who have developed this ability, and in a previous incarnation in Ancient Egypt some 5,500 years ago, another facet of Erethea was also a Scribe, making Vi
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  • ...r or not there are still present, relatively pure line descendants of this ancient Nodite race? Is this the race that has been associated with royalty through ...he Book of Enoch reveals to us that the core of such “nefarious plans” has ancient roots dating from the very origins of rebellion on this planet. Is it reall
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  • In the Levantine pantheon, the Elohim are the 70 sons of El the Ancient of Days (Olam) assembled on the divine holy place, Mount Zephon (Jebel Aqra ...d" in a general sense (as in Exodus 12:12, where it describes "the gods of Egypt"), to a specific god (e.g., 1 Kings 11:33, where it describes Chemosh "the
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  • ...content and methodology as primary. Let us start, however, by looking at ancient African philosophy. ...hy in North Africa has a rich and varied history, dating from pre-dynastic Egypt, and continuing through the birth of both Christianity and Islam. Arguably
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  • ...and a sharer in his labours and persecutions: which is the reason why the ancient fathers have considered this book as a part of the prophecy of Jeremiah, an [19] From the day when the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have been
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  • ...often overlooked in many North American and European universities, just as ancient "Western" and monotheistic claims are also overlooked in the last few decad ...Lokayata or Lokyāta, was a materialist and atheist school of thought with ancient roots in India. It proposed a system of ethics based on rational thought. H
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  • ...les greatly deteriorated the early [[civilization]] along the Nile so that Egypt reached its lowest cultural level some [https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1 80:3.1 The [[ancient]] [[centers]] of the [[culture]] of the blue man were located along all the
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  • == Ancient Greek philosophy == The Golden Rule was a common principle in ancient Greek philosophy. A few examples:
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  • ...and [[social sciences]]. Conventionally the humanities include [[Languages|ancient and modern languages]] and [[literature]], [[history]], [[philosophy]], [ ...ademic tradition, refer to cultures of [[classical antiquity]], namely the Ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Classical study was formerly considered one of t
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  • ...system dates back to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt ancient Egypt]. [[Evidence]] of trepanation, the surgical [[practice]] of either drilling ...unction]] of the brain regarded it to be a "cranial stuffing" of sorts. In Egypt, from the late [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Kingdom_of_Egypt Middl
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  • ...lical]] [[narrative]]s of [[Creation]] and the [[universal]] deluge. Other ancient deluge [[myth]]s have been discovered since then, explaining why the flood ...its current orbit. Velikovsky used this to explain the biblical plagues of Egypt, the biblical reference to the "Sun standing still" for a day (explained by
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  • ...eglect thy portion, which thou didst redeem for thyself out of the land of Egypt. ...e who exercise authority unworthily, can be seen not so much from the more ancient records which we hand on as from investigation of matters close at hand.
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  • ...opotamia Mesopotamia], near the mouth of the [[rivers]], remnants of the [[ancient]] [[culture]] of the days of [[Dalamatia]]. With the passing [[millenniums] ...sopotamia Mesopotamia], held forth in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt] and prepared to take over the disappearing [[culture]] of the [https://en.
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  • ...nd [[social sciences]]. Conventionally the humanities include [[Languages|ancient and modern languages]] and [[literature]], [[history]], [[philosophy]], [ The great traditions in [[art]] have a foundation in the art of one of the ancient civilizations:
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  • ...s also derived from the lingering [[traditions]] of the [[methods]] of the ancient [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:3._LIFE_IN_MESO ...nts promulgated by Melchizedek were [[patterned]] along the lines of the [[ancient]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:7._LIFE_IN_DA
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  • ...enth century. It is defined partly by the [[process]] of rediscovering the ancient culture developed in Greece and Rome in the [[classical period]], and partl ...iod from the seventh to the twelfth century, consisting of translating the ancient philosophers, commenting upon, clarifying, interpreting and developing thei
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  • ...o the desire of humans to create lasting records. Stones could be the most ancient form of writing, but wood would be the first medium to take the guise of a ...ia of variable quality, the best being used for sacred writing. In Ancient Egypt, papyrus was used for writing maybe as early as from First Dynasty, but fir
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  • ...communities, in large part as a way of accommodating its Muslim minority. Egypt was run in both monarchic and theocracy in which the [[pharaoh]] was the [[ An example often given from Antiquity is [[Pharaonic Egypt]] when the king was a divine or semi-divine figure who ruled largely throug
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  • ...rs traces of dance from [[prehistory|prehistoric times]] such as [[ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] tomb paintings depicting dancing figures from circa 3300 BC and ...itual, abstract, and, interpretive. Regional geography has altered since [[ancient India]]'s time and so have regional varieties of Indian dances. Dances like
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  • ===The ancient world=== ...atural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'' concerning the development of [[Ancient Greek art|Greek sculpture and painting]]. From them it is possible to trace
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  • ...plagues, so that he returns Sarai and expels Abram and all his people from Egypt.[https://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=RsvGene.sgm&images=images .../modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=15&division=div1 Genesis 15.] The "river of Egypt", traditionally identified not with the Nile but with Wadi el Arish in the
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  • ...of flintworking, which they [[transmitted]] to their [[descendants]], the ancient [[ancestors]] of the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimos Eskimos]. ....org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt]. This long-drawn-out battle was waged for almost one hundred years, and at
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  • ....org/wiki/Nile_valley Nile valley] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt]. This long-drawn-out battle was waged for almost one hundred years, and at ...n were mostly confined to this southern or [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egyptian] nation.
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  • In the 6th century, the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[Emperor Justinian]] oversaw the consolidation of Roman [[Civ ...the Uruk phase Guillermo Algaze has argued that trade relations connected Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran and Afghanistan. Royal Tombs of [Ur] it is suggested was
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  • An [[Egypt]]ian device dating to c.[[1500 BCE]], similar in shape to a bent [[T-square ...the ancient world were the [[waterclock]] or ''clepsydra'', first found in Egypt. A waterclock was found in the tomb of [[pharaoh]] [[Amenhotep I]] (1525 -
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  • ...rsity Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1963. In other societies, such as [[ancient Egypt]] or [[medieval Europe]], literacy has been a domain confined to political ...patterns, gestures and the bilateral symmetry of the human body in several ancient verse traditions.cited in Ong, p. 34. Marcel Jousse. ''Le Parlant, la par
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  • ...als (e.g. [[History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent|metallurgy in ancient India]]). The greed for gold led to the discovery of the process for its pu ...ufactured hundreds of [[drug]]s. Alchemy, which the Muslims inherited from Egypt, contributed to chemistry by a thousand incidental discoveries, and by its
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  • ...that would be akin to their current methods of construction. However, the ancient pyramids of your world, particularly the great pyramid of Cheops, were not
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  • ...Magi of Zoroastrianism, and their reputation together with that of Ancient Egypt shaped the [[hermeticism]] of [[Hellenistic religion]]. The Greek mystery religions had strongly magical components, and in Egypt, a large number of magical [[Papyrus|papyri]], in Greek, [[Coptic]], and De
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  • ...'') as ultimately cognate with Latin ''fumus'' for "smoke," related to the ancient usage of "vapour" or "breath" to symbolize [[spirit]] — for example the H ...a title of honor for bishops and patriarchs in some Christian churches of Egypt, Syria, and Ethiopia. [https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Abba dicdef] Accor
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  • ...adition: in China to Taoism, in India to Yoga and Tantrism, in Hellenistic Egypt to gnōsis, in Islamic countries to Hermetic and esoteric mystical schools, ...recipes is abundantly documented in China and in India, as well as in the ancient Near East and Greece. Even so late an author as Galen warns one of his disc
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  • ...s proto-canonical portions. In the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and many other ancient and modern translations of the Bible, it comprises both its proto- and its and one that was ancient of days took his seat;
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  • ...logist at the venerated sites in Nazareth, unearthed quantities of later [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] and [[Byzantine]] artefacts, (B. Bagatti, ''Excavations in Naz ...]], [[Babylonian]], [[Persian Empire|Persian]], [[Hellenist]]ic or Early [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] times (see above), at least in the major excavations between 1
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