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  • of the divine, and are thus revered forms of sacred art. ... Thangka are a revered form of sacred art in Tibetan Buddhism overflowing ...
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  • Rangoli, Kolam, Rangavalli and other sacred geometrical traditions, are ... tantric symbols of cosmic unity, sacred geometric diagrams representing ...
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  • who excelled in the categories of both sacred and secular music. Even though ... Hassler's sacred music is both for the Roman Catholic church ...
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  • beneath secular tunes, obscuring the sacred texts as composers continued ... This sparked a number of innovations in medicine, science, art, and music. ...
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  • The Sacred Heart is a devotional representation of Jesus' physical ... Predecessors to the modern devotion to the Sacred Heart existed to ...
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  • Senfl was an eclectic composer, at home both in the worlds of sacred ... His sacred music includes masses, motets, vespers settings, and a ...
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  • Often viewed as the sacred union of male and female, Feng being male ... This sacred creature never kills. It eats only plants, never even ...
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  • in the early eighteenth century. His sacred music, chamber compositions ... and theoretical work, expressed in his The Art of Harpsichord Playing. Composers ...
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  • When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ... Chants were derived to enhance the parts in sacred ceremonies and ...
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  • This practice is ancient, and held as sacred by many cultures, including ... take place. Sage is also used in keeping sacred objects like pipes or Peyote ...
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  • sites and buildings, including the sacred pagodas that hold the ashes ... *Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, and Howard C. Cutler. 1998. The art of happiness: ...
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  • and elegance that are proficient in the art of dancing. They are the wives ... ===Apsaras in the art of ancient Java and Bali, Indonesia=== ...
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  • monogram and is still used in Christian art, often in combination with ... Him, since He is eternal. Thus Emet is a sacred word expressing that in God ...
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  • :Thou art the eldest son of Shu, his primogeniture. :O Geb, Osiris ... :thou art the Great God, the only one. :Atum has given thee his heritage; ...
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  • stupa, a tomb-like structure in which sacred relics could be kept safe ... as an appropriate structure for enshrining sacred relics and became known to ...
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  • periods. As a renowned creator of sacred music, Michael Haydn concentrated ... undertook a similar work regarding the sacred vocal music. ...
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  • ) is a form of sacred theater traditionally performed in Hindu temples ... women of the Ambalavasi Nambiar caste in sacred theaters, called Koothambalam ...
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  • Mt. Emei is one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China. The ... * Buddhist art * Chinese Buddhism * Tang Dynasty * Sacred Mountains of China ...
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  • seem unusual that a composer would build a sacred composition upon fragments ... like his father, and in so doing learned the art of counterpoint and improvisation ...
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  • Hieros Gamos (Greek ιερός γάμος, "sacred wedding" ... *The union of a god and goddess as expressed in various art forms ...
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