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may have been related to the southern Arabian or Ethiopian word "mikrab ... was at that time a shrine to numerous Arabian tribal gods. Desert tribesmen ...

his kingship, Nabonidus was absent at the Arabian oasis of Tayma. During this ... anomaly. He worshiped the moon god Sîn (mythology) beyond all the other gods ...

Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world ... *Arabian mythology – Juha *Ashanti mythology – Anansi ...

An arachnid is any member of the arthropod class Arachnida, a largely terrestrial group that includes spiders, mites, ticks, scorpions, and harvestmen ...

Sea, with the wind originating in the Arabian or Sahara Deserts. It often reaches hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe. ...

antiquity and have featured in the art, mythology, and folklore of many countries ... *Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr), Arabian Peninsula; Often ...

In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is one of the foundational principles ... First and foremost, Babylonian mythology characterizes Tiamat as the ...

for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion ... Native American society, focusing on mythology. By the time he was ten ...

commonly used for navigating at the time in the Arabian Sea. ... On the isolated island of Socotra, south of Yemen in the Arabian Sea ...

of good cheer, and go boldly forth to meet the Arabian host, which would do him no hurt, as he himself would send those who should help him. Sethos, ...

of German ethnic tradition; while the Arabian Nights can be viewed as ... Gilgamesh, and the character Sinbad of the Arabian Nights legends all are important ...

hostile to, their people's mythology. Many of these philosophers ... and taught that God could not be named. Arabian philosophers denied that ...

Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, including "The ... *Marzolph, Ulrich, Richard van Leeuwen, Hassan Wassouf. The Arabian ...

equatorial forest zone (Donegan 2002). The Arabian ostriches in the Near and ... *S. c. syriacus in the Middle East, sometimes called the Arabian ostrich ...

stallion. In stark contrast to the mythology of the stallion and his ... The Arabian horse, the world's oldest purebred breed, gained ...

and a recurring token in Greek and Roman mythology. It continues to serve ... history in symbolism, religious decoration, and mythology. ...

which at the time was a more integral part of the Arabian Sea. Between 2000 B.C.E. and 1700 B.C.E., seismic activity caused the waters of the river's ...

In Canaanite mythology, the divine offspring of the god El were called ... for god. It is also found in Old South Arabian and in Amharic/Ethiopian. ...

back to ancient times. Crane symbolism and mythology is widely spread and can be found in areas such as the Aegean, South Arabia, China, Japan, Korea ...

An inscription using the Ancient South Arabian script in Old Arabic from ... The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend (New York, N ...

the Greek coast. Some elements of Greek mythology mixed with the local cults ... to venture north. Their residence in the Arabian Desert was short-lived, ...

*****Arabian jird, Meriones arimalius *****Cheng's jird, Meriones chengi *****Sundevall's jird, Meriones crassus *****Dahl's jird ...

immigration from India, China, Portugal, Arabian, and Netherlands. ... literature and adaptations of Indian mythology such as the Ramayana and ...

The legendary founder of music in Chinese mythology was Ling Lun, ... loved his subjects. According to Chinese mythology, the cabinet in the administration ...

into three phulai.Gregory Nagy, Greek Mythology and Poetics (Ithaca, NY: ... and Negev to the eastern coast of the Arabian desert, were traditionally ...

fairy tale has ancient roots, older than the Arabian Nights collection of magical tales (c. 1500 C.E.), such as the Vikram and the Vampire, and Bel ...

for its appearance in the sky. In Greek mythology, Zeus places his infant ... of Philosophy. Retrieved June 5, 2018. The Arabian astronomer, Alhazen (965 ...

predicted that by 2025, countries of the Arabian peninsula will be using ... Water is often believed to have spiritual powers. In Celtic mythology ...

and Bakhtiari, and Isfahan. In Iranian mythology, the Bakhtiari consider ... Sinai, and the eastern coast of the Arabian Desert. The term applies ...

of the staple diet in Mohenjodaro near the Arabian Sea. The Indus Plain had rich alluvial deposits which came down the Indus River in annual floods ...

of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea. It is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait ...

raised fine horses, similar to contemporary Arabian horses, which were greatly prized and exported. Carthage's merchant ships, which surpassed ...

sometime extending to the edge of the Arabian Desert. The northern border ... The Islamic unification of the Arabian Peninsula by the first caliph ...

practice of other areas of the world, such as the Arabian Peninsula, where a group's territory was congruent with its military or trade influence ...

community lives in the countries of the Arabian Peninsula and in smaller ... of the myth, the inconsistencies of the mythology, and the linguistic research ...