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• Planet
  The term ''planet'' is an ancient one, with ties to history, science, myth and religion. The planets were ori ...f Greek]] for the transcription scheme meaning "wanderers", by the ancient Greeks, and it is from this that the word "planet" was derived. [https://www.m-w.c
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• Great Pyramid of Gizeh
  ...ramid was built as a tomb for [[Fourth dynasty of Egypt|Fourth dynasty]] [[ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] King [[Khufu]] (Cheops in Greek) and constructed over a 20 ...'' notes "By themselves, of course, none of these modern labels define the ancient purposes of the architecture they describe." p. 8</ref> Queen's Chamber and
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• Formal Sciences
  ...From then on different cultures such as the [[History of India|Indian]], [[Greeks|Greek]], [[Islamic]] made major contributions to mathematics.
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• Psyche
  ...e self, encompassing the modern [[ideas]] of [[soul]], self, and mind. The Greeks believed that the soul or "psyche" was responsible for behaviour.[2][3] ..., Erwin, Psyche: The Cult of Souls and the Belief in Immortality Among the Greeks, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1925; reprinted by Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0
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• 85:4 Worship of the Elements
  ...ceremonial]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon Babylon], and the [[Greeks]] [[practiced]] the annual [[ritual]] bath. It was easy for the [[ancients] ...n India it is a [[devil]] because it brings dust and causes drought. The [[ancient]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouins Bedouins] believed that a [[natur
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• Panic
  ...llable [[fear]]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greeks] credited the [[battle]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon Maratho
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• 90:3 Shamanic Theory of Disease and Death
  90:3.1 Since [[ancient]] man regarded himself and his [[material]] [[environment]] as being direct ...Viewed in this [[light]], much of the inexplicable and irrational in the [[ancient]] [[cults]] is understandable. The [[ceremonies]] of the [[cult]] were [htt
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• Public speaking
  ...experience of orators in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greek] city-states. In classical Greece and Rome, the main component was [[ The art of public speaking was first developed by the ancient Greeks. Greek oration is known from the works of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl
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• Panicked
  ...llable [[fear]]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece ancient Greeks] credited the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon battle of M
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• India
  ...Indus,’ also ‘the region around the Indus’ (compare with Sindhi). Both the Greeks and the Persians extended the name to include all the country east of the I Home to the ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation Indus Valley Civil
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• 90:2 Shamanistic Practices
  ...dure]], comparable to present-day [[church]] [[rituals]] conducted in an [[ancient]] [[tongue]]. The [[human]] race very early sought for [[superhuman]] help, 90:2.2 [[Ancient]] [[Occult|black art]], both religious and secular, was called white art wh
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• 95:3 Evolution of Moral Concepts
  ...transmitted to subsequent [[civilizations]] through the [[Hebrews]] and [[Greeks]], much, very much, of the [[social]] and [[ethical]] [[idealism]] of the E ...also augmented by the periodic arrival of [[teachers]] of [[truth]], in [[ancient]] times from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 s
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• Watchers
  ...ia.org/wiki/Witchcraft witchcraft] where the Grigori are said to come from ancient stellar lore. References to angelic Grigori appear in the [[books]] of [htt ==Eventually the Greeks reduced the Watchers to the gods of the four winds==
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• Kaleidoscope
  Known to the ancient Greeks, it was reinvented by Sir David Brewster in 1816 while conducting [[experim
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• Progress
  Historian J. B. Bury argued that thought in ancient Greece was dominated by the theory of world-cycles or the doctrine of etern ...sbet and Gertrude Himmelfarb have attributed a notion of progress to other Greeks. Xenophanes said "The gods did not reveal to men all things in the beginnin
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• Christmas
  ...ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice winter solstice],[7] which in ancient times was marked on December 25.[10] In 1743, German Protestant Paul Ernst ...cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/SF/WinSol.html "Bruma"], Seasonal Festivals of the Greeks and Romans Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 18:59
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• 2003-11-25-Reconciliation Of Such Importance
  ...hrough the ages. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greeks] note them to be "[[hermaphrodites]]," and truly physically [[androgynous]]
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• 89:6 Evolution of Human Sacrifice
  ...[[Hebrews]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamians], [[Greeks]], [[Romans]], and many other peoples, even on to recent times among the ba ...[record]], [[illustrative]] of the [[heart]]-tearing contentions between [[ancient]] and time-honored [[religious]] [[customs]] and the contrary demands of ad
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• Philanthropy
  It is generally agreed that the [[word]] was coined 2500 years ago in ancient [[Greece]], by the playwright [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus Aesc The [[Greeks]] adopted the “love of humanity” as an [[educational]] [[ideal]], whose
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• Western Philosophy
  ...indicated by [[Plato]]'s and [[Aristotle]]'s works, along with many other ancient and medieval [[philosophers]]. ...t of as elements or branches of Western philosophy. To some of the ancient Greeks, these fields were often one and the same. Thus, philosophy is an expansive
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