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- Enoch (Hebrew: meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used by two separate figures who lived during the generation of Adam ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
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- text=Shangdi is the High God (or Clan Ancestor) postulated in the earliest-known religious system of the Han Chinese people. The term can literally ...934 bytes (136 words) - 19:17, 27 August 2022
- {{Main page article box| type=Featured| title=Altar| image_name=RD alter.jpg| image_desc=Altar in Roskilde Cathedral beneath by a carved reredos| ...553 bytes (84 words) - 23:22, 9 May 2024
- # (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known. ...869 bytes (115 words) - 22:28, 11 July 2023
- {{Main page article box| type=Popular| title=African-Americans| image_name=AfricanAmericans2.jpg| image_desc=Top left: W. E. B. Du Bois; Top center: ...1 KB (155 words) - 16:58, 13 November 2021
- in different species descended from a common ancestor. # (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture ...1 KB (161 words) - 00:18, 1 February 2024
- the son of Dagon, with El being a more distant ancestor; and Ashera is not always portrayed as his mother.). He is thought by many scholars to be a Canaanite ...1 KB (193 words) - 21:21, 28 May 2022
- # A holy or sacred place dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure ...1 KB (175 words) - 16:34, 30 November 2023
- if it consists of an inferred common ancestor and all its descendants ... of organisms comprising a single common ancestor and all its descendants; ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 06:51, 18 April 2024
- # Something that is received from an ancestor or other person by legal succession or will. # Something regarded as heritage: the cultural inheritance ...3 KB (403 words) - 15:38, 2 August 2022
- a confusion between Jizi and Gihun's ancestor, Gija. ... traditional accounts see Gihu's ancestor, Gija, as the same person ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 06:55, 14 December 2022
- Shangdi (上帝, pinyin: Shàngdì, Wade-Giles Shang Ti), or simply Di (帝), is the High God (or Clan Ancestor) postulated in the earliest-known ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 15:31, 18 June 2022
- Java, the pride of his career, as direct ancestor of all modern humans" ... is believed to be the first close human ancestor to leave Africa and the ...9 KB (1,362 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- be termed homologous if their common ancestor also exhibits a similar ... no longer be used as evidence of a common ancestor. One such exception is the ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 16:13, 25 January 2023
- the descendants of the most recent common ancestor. This shows not only the ... all Lissamphibians evolved from a common ancestor apart from other extinct ...10 KB (1,382 words) - 05:32, 4 March 2023
- is which the group contains its most recent common ancestor, but does not contain all the descendants of that ancestor; in this case, it does not include ...8 KB (1,275 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- Hagar. In Islamic tradition, he was the ancestor of the prophet Muhammad ... rescued by God. He went on to become the ancestor of the biblical Ishmaelites ...15 KB (2,619 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- extant feliform bullae suggest a common ancestor, though one has not been ... carnivores evolved from a single common ancestor that was a herpestid (Yoder ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 12:58, 21 January 2023
- hominid, and its immediate ancestor may have been the more massive ... Homo habilis is thought to be the ancestor of the lankier and more ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 12:08, 2 February 2024
- are thought to be descendant from an ungulate ancestor, while the pinnipeds, otters, and polar bear are descended from a caniform ancestor. The morphological ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- |image = Korean ancestor veneration-Jesa-01.jpg ... of the family: Charye (차례), ancestor memorial services at home ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
