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  • The term Bacchanalia describes the initiatory and celebratory rites ... The derogatory and potentially fallacious descriptions of the Bacchanalia ...
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  • (fall 1793) and subsequently the Cult of the Supreme Being (spring 1794) ... ===Cult of Reason/Cult of the Supreme Being=== New forms of moral religion ...
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  • Abydos (Arabic: أبيدوس, Greek Αβυδος), is one of the most ... The city was originally called Abdju (technically, 3bdw, hieroglyphs ...
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  • Wade-Giles Shang Ti), or simply Di (帝), is the High God (or Clan Ancestor ... As noted above, Shangdi was an important religious concept from the ...
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  • Deprogramming is the process of removing a person thought to be under ... Supporters of deprogramming portray the practice as an antidote to ...
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  • Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin and Khrushchev years ... Anastas Mikoyan joined the Bolshevik Party and fought in Baku during ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon ... Zeus is arguably the most identifiable character in all the world ...
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  • ::Note: For the planet Saturn, please click here. : holding jurisdiction over agriculture and the harvest. Like many of the ...
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  • According to the Hindu religion, Shakti (Sanskrit: meaning force, ... In some systems of Hindu thought, Shakti may also be worshiped as ...
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  • Yamanu) was a multifaceted deity whose cult originated at Thebes, in the ... cosmological belief system that developed in the Nile river basin from earliest ...
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  • The Reign of Terror (June 1793 – July 1794) was a period in the ... The French Revolution began not only as a revolt against the monarchy ...
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  • – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science ... 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the only child of Winfield Scott ...
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  • (January 1, 1907 – November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet ... However, the USSR may have over-reached itself during his watch. While ...
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  • Ahura Mazda is the supreme divinity of the Zoroastrian faith, which ... Ahura Mazda thus represents what some lines of evidence suggest to ...
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  • ploughlands and gardens. She was considered the ancestor of the Roman people ... Venus carries on a tradition of eroticized female divinities featured ...
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  • Vaishnavism (Sanskrit for "belonging to Vishnu") is one ... Vaishnavism is a prominent faction within Hinduism, with the vast ...
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  • Stalinism is the name given to the political and economic system which ... The term "Stalinism" was coined by Lazar Kaganovich. Although ...
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  • Mithraism, properly known as the Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of ... The term 'mysteries' does not imply that the religion was ...
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  • Asherdu and in Ugaritic as Athirat. She was the consort of the chief deity ... In the Judeo-Christian tradition Asherah is considered a false Canaanite ...
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  • In Mesopotamian religion Shamash was the Akkadian name of the sun ... In addition to being the god of the sun, Shamash was also the deity ...
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