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- The exact meaning of the oracle, however, is not so clear-cut. In ... is contained in his sixth and final oracle. This is the prediction of ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- The Greeks had their oracle which spoke for the gods. As far back as 1000 B.C.E., the Chinese had I Ching, an oracle which involved the tossing ...16 KB (2,402 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- stop prophesying. Amos responded with an oracle: “Your wife will become ... The large opening oracle in Amos 1:3-2:16 predicted that many of Israel ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- and research into Shang and Zhou dynasty oracle bones, as well as Zhou bronze ... Western Zhou bronzes and a very few Shang oracle bones, such groups were already ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- was the catalyst for utterances of the oracle at Delphi in ancient Greece ... and scholars believe that the famous Greek Oracle at Delphi (the Pythia) went ...26 KB (3,781 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- that would not heal; Telephus consulted an oracle, who stated that "he ... Romania and Ukraine, with a temple and an oracle which survived into the Roman ...34 KB (5,355 words) - 15:14, 24 December 2023
- favored Sparta and this was supported by an oracle that said that Apollo himself (the god of disease and medicine) would fight for Sparta if they fought ...19 KB (2,851 words) - 07:48, 24 November 2022
- war and under instruction from the Delphic Oracle, the entire island was purged of all dead bodies. It was then ordered that no one should be ...9 KB (1,335 words) - 09:22, 28 January 2024
- often has a three-part form, consisting of an oracle, a narrative continuation, and then a closing oracle. The first two are related in their writing ...21 KB (3,455 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- that are indisputably writing are the Oracle Bone Script ( ... that are indisputably writing are the Oracle bone script ( ...55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- *Coke, Edward. 1929. Oracle of the Law. Houghton Mifflin Co. *Coke, Edward. 1972. The Lord Coke and His Speech and Charge. Da Capo Press. ...10 KB (1,545 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- Ostensibly the Spartans were obeying their oath and following the ... ==Oracle at Delphi== The legend of Thermopylae, as told by Herodotus ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- I:1, Zephaniah) in connection with the old oracle (1:4 ff) gave it its place ... states: "The crux of Zephaniah's oracle, however, is that he reverses ...21 KB (3,366 words) - 19:07, 20 November 2023
- as a Service programme in Europe and is an Oracle On Demand partner. *HKNet HKNet is an internet service provider in Hong Kong. Previously one ...22 KB (3,054 words) - 05:01, 15 November 2022
- time he published his work on inscriptions on oracle bones and bronze vessels, Liang Chou chin wen tz'u ta hsi t'u lu k'ao shih (Pinyin: ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 19:48, 12 July 2023
- called Apollo. One morning, he went to the Oracle of Dionysus to salute his ... shrine was built in his honor; there, his oracle prophesied, until it was ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- the Jewish Revolt of 66-70 C.E. to consult an oracle (Tacitus, "Hist." 2:78). By this time, Tacitus reports, Carmel was the name "both ...10 KB (1,644 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- of Zeus had surpassed the oak-grove oracle at Dodona in popularity, ... remained unmarried. They consulted an oracle who told them that Psyche ...23 KB (3,678 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- wall of Atrahasis' house (suggestive of an oracle) Enki advises Atrahasis to dismantle his house and build a boat to escape the flood. ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- of new archaeological findings, regarding the oracle bones as forgery. An activist as well as scholar, he produced a great amount of political ...11 KB (1,492 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- It is also said that Poseidon was one of the caretakers of the Oracle at Delphi before the Olympian Apollo became its patron. Indeed, Apollo ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- Oenopion into Minos of Crete. They add that an oracle told Orion that his sight could be restored by walking eastward, and he found his way by hearing ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- yin and yang are found in inscriptions made on “oracle bones” (animals shoulder blades and turtle carapaces used in ancient Chinese divination). ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- military. However, after seeking the advice of the oracle of Apollo at Didyma, he decided on a universal persecution. On February 23, 303, Diocletian ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 04:03, 26 November 2022
- pay for the reconstruction of the statue, but an oracle made the Rhodians afraid that they had offended Helios, and they declined to rebuild it. The ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 22:42, 7 January 2024
- Darius the Great (Darayawush I) (ca. 549 B.C.E. – 485/486 B.C.E.; Old Persian Dārayawuš: "He Who Holds Firm the Good"), was the ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- to do it, and another that Diogenes went to an oracle who instructed him to defile the coinage. Numismatic evidence shows that the currency of Sinope ...13 KB (2,126 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- during this time: Surfacing (1972); Lady Oracle (1976); and Life Before Man ... *Lady Oracle (1976) *Life Before Man (1979, finalist for the Governor ...39 KB (5,259 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- occupied by the Roman troops. However, as an oracle had predicted earlier, the death of Carus cut short his career as well as the Roman advance. ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- ascended toward the sky. At that moment, an oracle warned Kamsa that the one who was prophesied to destroy him was still alive. Yashoda and Nanda ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
- signs of messianic import, as is evidenced from an oracle of Jonah retained by the compilers of the Books of Kings (2 Kings 14:25), which characterize ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 08:00, 3 April 2024
- (baba lawo, baba which means father and Awo is oracle through which can be seen a vision for the individual or the nation. In this regard, 'baba ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Alcott, Amos Bronson [[Image:Amos_Bronson_Alcott.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A. Bronson Alcott]] ...13 KB (1,941 words) - 17:22, 26 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Waterhouse_-_Hamadryad.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 19:37, 17 November 2022
- Athens began when his friend Chaerephon asked the oracle at Delphi if anyone was wiser than Socrates; the Oracle responded negatively. Socrates, interpreting ...30 KB (4,718 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- instead. In the process, he gives the following oracle concerning the Amalekites: "Amalek was first among the nations, but he will come to ruin ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 24 July 2023
- days of pagan glory based on the Sibylline oracle that appeared to promise ... Receiving encouragement from an oracle in the old Sibylline Books ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 09:46, 12 May 2024
- *Chapter 12—An oracle of disaster for those who would attack the holy city: "When all the nations of the earth are gathered against her ...16 KB (2,596 words) - 13:06, 13 February 2024
- Astronomy in China has a very long history. Oracle bones from the Shang Dynasty (second millennium B.C.E.) record eclipses and novae. Detailed ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- Chavín de Huántar is an archaeological site containing ruins and artifacts originally constructed in the Peruvian Andes by the pre-Incan Chavín ...15 KB (2,387 words) - 00:46, 5 December 2023
- For the oracle "ex tripudiis," according to Cicero (Cic. de Div. ii.34), any bird could be used, but normally only chickens ("pulli ...29 KB (4,637 words) - 15:23, 10 December 2023
- The oracle of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who falls prostrate, ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- as the senior of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi (where he was responsible for interpreting the auguries of the Pythia). He led an ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 08:08, 24 November 2022
- According to Greek mythology, the Delphic Oracle told Apollo that the horseradish was worth its weight in gold. Horseradish was known in Egypt ...16 KB (2,357 words) - 14:25, 7 February 2024
- a story of the prophet Isaiah delivering a dire oracle against Hezekiah because of his foolishly showing his treasures to visiting Babylonian envoys—implying ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- Legend recounts that in the year 510 B.C.E. an oracle from the priestess of Delphi decreed that the Acropolis should no longer be inhabited by man and ...17 KB (2,700 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- styles: Divine/human dialogue (1:2-2:5), oracle(s) of woe (2:6-2:20), and psalm of celebration (3:1-3:19). Marks, 218-219; Hiebert, 624-625. ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- proceed, the Thracian people consulted an oracle, who informed them that the ... Dionysos was also revered at Delphi, where he presided over the oracle ...32 KB (5,115 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- him by Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the Oracle of the god at the Siwah oasis in the Libyan Desert. "Not the least of the many extraordinary ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- After his visit to the Oracle of Ammon at Siwah, according to all ... Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the oracle of Ammon located at the Siwa ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- Meanwhile, an oracle prophesies that Troy will not be defeated as long as Troilus reaches the age of twenty alive. Shortly thereafter the Greek ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- Calligraphy (from the Greek meaning κάλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφή graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- : as the clouds lifted the waters, and then asked for an oracle, : and then little by little spirit warmed the soft stones : and Pyrrha showed ...19 KB (2,900 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- Gaia and the Oracular priestess, before the Delphic Oracle was seized by Apollo and the two serpents were draped around his winged caduceus, which he ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- from drought and victory over the Moabites. His oracle was fulfilled on the following morning (2 Kings 3:4-24). ===Miracle worker=== ...20 KB (3,192 words) - 21:43, 7 January 2019
- revered. At the temple, Apis was used as an oracle, his movements being interpreted as prophecies. His breath was also believed to cure disease, and ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- to the second millennium B.C.E. Oracle bone script. [http://www.china.org.cn/english/2003/Jun/66806.htm Archaeologists Rewrite History] China ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- power. He asked the advice of the Delphic Oracle, who cautioned that one of his sons would overthrow him. As a result, the monstrous deity found ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- Babylon. Such followers are hinted at in an oracle preserved in Isaiah 8:16-18: :Bind up the testimony and seal up the law among my disciples ...20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
- [[Image:Athenian-oracle-front.gif|thumb|left|200px|A detail of the ... received a bound publication as The Athenian Oracle. The Athenian Mercury ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- in the soundtrack of many films, including the oracle scene in The Matrix; Rhythm Futur (95 minute mark) and I Can't Give You Anything But Love ...19 KB (3,034 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2024
- Mecca. In Yoruba traditional religion, the Ifá oracle is consulted via a string of sixteen cowries or oil-palm nuts whose pattern when thrown on to ...22 KB (3,568 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- Glossolalia is evident in the renowned ancient Oracle of Delphi, whereby a priestess of the Greek god Apollo (called a sibyl) spoke in unintelligible ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 16:54, 17 December 2022
- Many later divination systems, like the Chien Tung (or "Oracle of Guanyin") tradition, are based upon the techniques and assumptions ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- February 3, 2009, software giant Oracle, and the United States first international corporate law firm, Baker and McKenzieurl=http://www.bakernet ...51 KB (7,192 words) - 13:07, 3 May 2023
- slew Pytho and remade her former home his own oracle, the most famous in Classical Greece. Asclepius, the son of Apollo, learned the secrets of keeping ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- Apollo after he killed Python and set up the oracle at Delphi. Otherwise, the athletic events were the same as the Olympic Games. A four-horse chariot ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- The earliest evidence of the Chinese calendar is found on oracle bones ... The earliest evidence of this was found on oracle bones from the Shang Dynasty ...53 KB (8,207 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- back to this period, from characters inscribed on oracle bones used for divination. The Shang were eventually overthrown by the people of Zhou, which ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- |Oracle Team USA |9-8 |[[Image:Flag of New Zealand.svg|30px]] Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron |- |2010 |[[Image:Flag of Spain.svg|30px]]Valencia ...31 KB (4,811 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- to extend his realm and asked the oracle of Delphi whether he should ... refused to send emissaries, and the oracle of Delphi did not take ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 17:01, 27 January 2023
- to a demon just immediately before the divine oracle in chapter 17 denouncing sacrifices to the se'irim" (248). Zatelli, who offers a ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- Likewise, in Ancient Libya there remained a solitary oracle of Amun at the oasis of Siwa, in the heart of the Libyan desert. Such was its reputation ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- Ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, indicate that people have noticed the appearance of comets for millennia. One famous recording ...28 KB (4,322 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- the Athenians. The Athenians inquired at the Oracle of Delphi as to its cause, and Apollo revealed that Artemis was angry at them for the killing ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- of Islam," Religion Online, ThinkQuest, Oracle Education Foundation, [http://library.thinkquest.org/26756/islam/index.htm] from the virgin ...36 KB (5,381 words) - 06:53, 16 June 2023
- Michel de Nostredame (latinzed as Nostradamus) (December 14, 1503 – July 2, 1566) is the famed French prognosticator who is best known for ...27 KB (4,102 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- | rowspan="2" | East Asian calligraphy || Oracle bone script || Shang Dynasty |- | Cursive script || Han Dynasty |- | rowspan="2 ...28 KB (4,073 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- for the visions of the equally long-lived Delphic oracle (Hale et al. 2003). In ancient Germanic culture, cannabis was associated with the Germanic ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- Prayer is a form of religious practice that seeks to activate a volitional connection to some greater power in the universe through deliberate ...32 KB (4,977 words) - 18:50, 5 May 2024
- | Oracle Arena | 1946* |- | Los Angeles Clippers | Los Angeles, California | Red, Blue, White | Staples Center | 1970* |- | Los Angeles Lakers ...32 KB (4,894 words) - 01:38, 11 November 2022
- spectrum of businesses. Often called the "Oracle of Omaha," Alex Markels, July 29, 2007, How to Make Money The Buffett Way USNews.com. ...33 KB (4,479 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
- crops failed, were told by the Delphic Sibyl oracle to erect statues to Damia and Auxesia (symbols of fertility) carved from the wood of the true garden ...31 KB (4,932 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
- members include IT firms such as EMC Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Microsoft, and IBM, and media organizations such as MBC, CNN, Reuters, and AP. ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- ews/fortune500/buffett_talks/ The Oracle Speaks] CNNMoney.com, May 2, 2005. Retrieved June 24, 2020. The overall U.S. homeownership rate increased ...40 KB (5,653 words) - 11:59, 3 May 2023
- |fam2=Oracle Bone Script |fam3=Seal Script |fam4=Clerical Script |fam5=Traditional Chinese |sisters=Kanji, Chữ Nôm, Hanja, Khitan script, Zhuyin ...45 KB (6,288 words) - 22:48, 10 February 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Isaiah the Prophet in Hebrew Scriptures was depicted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- whose rough common sense was admired as the oracle of popular wisdom, and whose countryman's waistcoat and plaited hair were later on to become ...43 KB (6,105 words) - 17:02, 30 September 2023
- in the book itself when it is used as an oracle, was accomplished by tossing coins or (later) by running a computer program, initially the print ...40 KB (6,250 words) - 17:00, 5 April 2024
- 4 necks, 2 sound holes, 42 strings and also the Oracle Harp Sympitar; 24 strings (with 12 sympathetic strings protruding through the neck) are modern ...50 KB (8,328 words) - 03:18, 12 July 2023
- from Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Novell, IBM, and Oracle Corporation, these tests are designed to identify a minimal set of proficiencies in a specific ...49 KB (6,708 words) - 10:40, 10 March 2023
- virgin hemisphere, the flames in which their oracle Calvin consumed the poor Servetus, [https://www.miguelservet.org/popups/jefferson1.htm Letter ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- HP in printers, Seagate in disk drives, and Oracle in database software. Soon IBM's dominance in personal computers would be challenged by ...48 KB (6,957 words) - 06:47, 6 March 2024
- The Qur’ān, literally "the recitation" (also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Koran, or Al-Qur'an) is the central religious ...49 KB (7,703 words) - 20:37, 24 January 2023
- When the Athenians made inquiries at the oracle the god merely ordered them to honor Echetlaeus (He of the Plough-tail) as a hero. Pausanias 1.32.5. ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- ancient written documents are still extant, from Oracle bones to Qing edicts. This literary emphasis affected the general perception of cultural refinement ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- Paul of Tarsus (originally Saul of Tarsus), also known as Saint Paul or The Apostle Paul, (4–64 C.E.) is widely credited with the early development ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- community at large as the computer hacker Oracle; Azrael, a would-be assassin who replaces Bruce Wayne as Batman for a time; Cassandra Cain, ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 11:11, 20 September 2023
- with companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, and other major corporations. The sector has been stimulated by new Egyptian entrepreneurs trying to ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- Zedekiah immediately slaps him and challenges his oracle. Ahab orders Micaiah imprisoned. He then disguises himself to enter the battle, and Jehoshaphat ...60 KB (9,862 words) - 21:32, 6 February 2024
