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Mọ́remí or Mọ́rèmí: An Investigation into the Perception Error of a Deified Woman in Ilé-Ifẹ̀
Published 2022-01-01“…For quite a number of times over the years, the author has pondered on the correct pronunciation of the name of the female deity in Ilé-Ife ̣ ̀ who had played a very significant role during the time the people of Ife ̣ ̀ were under incessant attacks from their enemies. …”
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Divine Evolution: Empedocles’ Anthropology
Published 2021-06-01“…Cod can become a human (for example, for a deed unworthy of a deity), and a human can become God. Teaching of evolution is also double. …”
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River God Propaganda in a Septimius Severus Statue from Perge
Published 2024-12-01“…The third portrait, on the other hand, may have been employed to suggest that the subject was the deity Serapis or an individual bearing a similar resemblance. …”
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Èdè Àyàn: The Language of Àyàn in Yorùbá Art and Ritual of Egúngún
Published 2021-12-01“…As among other Yorùbá deities (òrìsạ̀) that live in the spiritual realm in certain but uncommon natural environments (forests, trees, rivers, streams, and mountains, among others), Òrìsà Àyàn is thought to reside in wood (Vil ̣ - lepastour 2015, 3). …”
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Adat tapsila representation of the transformation of communication, information, and education of local wisdom wetu telu in efforts for environmental conservation in North Lombok,...
Published 2025-01-01“…It encompasses customs governing the relationship between humans, deity, and nature. The method of land clearing involves four ngelokaq, including the pemangku, jintaka, penghulu, and mekel. …”
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Nu—A Marine Life Monitoring and Exploration Submarine System
Published 2025-01-01“…This paper introduces Nu (named after an ancient Egyptian deity), a 3D-printed Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROUV) designed in an attempt to address these challenges. …”
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மலரும் சருகும் நாவலில் நாடார் மக்களின் இனவரைவியல் / Ethnography of Nadar People in the Novel Malarum Sarugum...
Published 2025-01-01“…The practice of love marriage is also found among Nadar people. The deity worship of these people can be seen in two types namely Christian worship and Hindu worship. …”
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Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African “Ritual Archives”: Disciplinary Formations in African Thought
Published 2021-12-01“…The third unit, “Falola’s Image Theory and Praxis, Image as Archive, Image as Initiator”, demonstrates Falola’s dramatization of the cognitive possibilities of works of art as inspirers of theory, exemplified by a figurine of the Yoruba origin òrìṣà cosmology, the deity Esu. This is the most poetic and one of the most imaginatively, ideationally evocative and yet tantalizingly inadequately elaborated sections of “Ritual Archives”, evoking continuities between Yoruba philosophy, òrìṣà cosmology and various bodies of knowledge across art and image theory and history, without expanding on the ideas or building them into a structure adequately responsive to the promise of the ideas projected, a foundation I contribute to developing by elucidating my understanding of the significance of the ideas and their consonance with related conceptions and issues from Asian, Western and African cultures. …”
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Le sanctuaire romain du Vigneau à Pussigny (Indre-et-Loire) : un lieu de mémoire, de vie et d’accueil
Published 2023-12-01“…In this case, the sanctuary embodies a memorial dimension, all the more so as it was founded in the Augustan period, on what was to be a high-place for the community.The clues concerning the deity to which the sanctuary was dedicated are meagre: no ex voto, no representations, no material culture correlated to the cult... …”
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Le cerf chasseur et le maïs agriculteur : l’identité des divinités dans les mitote náyeri
Published 2008-07-01“…The hunting deer and the agriculturalist maize. The deities’ identity in the náyeri’s mitote. This article shows how the identity of the náyeri deities is constructed within the agricultural ceremonies named mitote. …”
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Materializations of oricha voice through divinations in Cuban Santería
Published 2018-06-01“…In this essay I explore how oricha (deities’) voice is produced in and through Cuban Santería practices that render oricha speech audible, meaningful, and quotable. …”
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The Enduring Influence of Taboos in Social Regulation: Insights from the Peki Community, Volta Region, Ghana
Published 2024-11-01“…In African traditional societies, taboos indicate what should or should not be done, and how to interact with members of society, the environment, the deities, and the ancestors. These taboos ensure balance and harmony between the deities and the community, among members of society and between the community and nature. …”
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Os cem olhos do pavão
Published 2021-01-01“…This beauty, concerning the imaginary, becomes a key element in the narratives and arts that associate the peacock with the Hindu and Buddhist deities, but also with the pride and the vanity. This article tries to show how the symbolism of the peacock was transmitted and adapted from Ancient India to Medieval Europe, where the bird figured in the Christian creativity as an emblem of the immortality of Christ and the preachers of the Church, along with hagiographical narratives and biblical images.…”
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In the place of sanctity. Religious eminence in Jewish tradition
Published 2024-12-01“…In Hebrew there is a word (kadòsh) that normally translates as holy, but its usage is noticeably different, as it applies mostly to deities or entities such as the Land of Israel or the Jewish people and rarely to people. …”
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Zanim zabłysło światło wiary Chrystusowej. Słowianie w orbicie wiary i kultury pogańskiej / Before the light of Christ’s faith shone. The Slavs in the orbit of pagan faith and cult...
Published 2022-11-01“…The article introduces the currently little popular subject of Slavic mythology, and presents the pantheon of the most important Slavic deities as well as the beliefs, cults and rituals of the Slavs living mainly in the eastern territories. …”
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A Comparative Study of Olodumare, the Yoruba Supreme Being and the Judea-Christian God
Published 2021-12-01“… This comparative study of Olodumare in Yoruba thought and the Judeo-Christian God reviews the reasons why these two deities from different cultures are so often equated, when they are not necessarily so. …”
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Un exemple de genre fluide dans la nécropole du Céramique ?
Published 2021-12-01“…Yet, even if classical Athens seems to portray a strictly binary society, some deities and individuals have the distinctive feature of blurring the gender boundaries. …”
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Maya Intimacy with the Mountains: Pilgrimage, Sacrifice and Existential Economy
Published 2016-06-01“…Finally, I argue that the experience of interaction, communication and intimacy between the Maya and their mountain deities can be best defined as a dynamic participation in the course of the world – an existential economy of ‘working the world’.…”
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Esclaves et affranchis chez les Voconces au Haut-Empire : l’apport des inscriptions
Published 2017-12-01“…Sixty-seven inscriptions have been recorded (42 epitaphs, 21 dedications to deities and 4 varied texts) concerning slaves and freedmen and women. …”
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Olódumare and Esu in Yorubá Religious Thought
Published 2021-12-01“… Theological and philosophical debates on deities do not end easily; rather they open new vistas of understanding and further argumentation. …”
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