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• Paper 90 - Shamanism, Medicine Men and Priests
  ...of the women hysteric, and these two types accounted for a good deal of [[ancient]] [[inspiration]] as well as spirit and [[devil]] [[Possessed|possession]]. ...dure]], comparable to present-day [[church]] [[rituals]] conducted in an [[ancient]] [[tongue]]. The [[human]] race very early sought for [[superhuman]] help,
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• 124:3 The Eleventh Year (A.D. 5)
  ...] [[city]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis], the ancient [[Hebrew]] [[city]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethshean Beth-shean] ...r]] allude to the [[games]] and other [[athletic]] [[activities]] of the [[Greeks]] as long as his [[father]] lived.
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• Philistine
  ...[[Persian people|Persians]], [[Jew]]s ([[Hasmonean|Hasmonean Kingdom]]), [[Greeks]] ([[Seleucid Empire]]), [[Roman Empire|Romans]], and subsequent empires. ...have suggested refers to "[[Potnia theron|Potnia]]," the title given to an ancient [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]] [[goddess]]. Excavations in [[Ashkelon]], [[
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• Automatons
  ===Ancient=== The Ancient Greeks created some remarkably advanced automatons and mechanical special effects
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• Oracle of Delphi
  ...t. The Greek spelling transliterates as "Delphoi" (with "o" added). and [[Ancient Greek dialects|dialectal]] forms '''Belphoi''' - [[Aeolic Greek|Aeolian]] f ...[[Mount Parnassus]], and includes the Sanctuary of Apollo, the site of the ancient [[Oracle]]. This semicircular spur is known as [[Phaedriades]], and overloo
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• Paper 98 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident
  ...les. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history#Classical_Antiquity ancient times] the [[Jews]] were famed as much for [[military]] [[valor]] as for [[ ==98:1. THE SALEM RELIGION AMONG THE GREEKS==
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• Archives
  ...ere well developed by the [[ancient]] Chinese, the ancient [[Greeks]], and ancient [[Romans]]. Modern archival thinking has many roots in the French Revolutio
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• Letters VIII-XVI: Life
  returning humans forward into a new ancient form of communal learning, today being called a Communiversity. ...alerno, Italy to study the medical practices and principles of the ancient Greeks. There followed universities in Bologna, Paris, Oxford and Cambridge. In
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• Immortal
  * Several men and women whom the ancient Greeks considered historical figures, like [[Menelaus]], [[Helen]], [[Achilles]], # While Mount Olympus actually exists, the Greeks understood a distinction between the Olympus of the Gods and the part that
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• Catastrophism
  ...tory was "stated in scientific methods with surprising frequency among the Greeks", an example being Plutarch's account of the Ogygian flood.[1] Earth's hist # Sivin, Nathan (1995). Science in Ancient China: Researches and Reflections. Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing
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• Mediterranean Sea
  ...Carthaginian]], [[Ancient Greece|Greek]], [[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] cultures. The [[history of the Mediterranean]] is crucial to u ...neus'', 'inland' (''medius'', 'middle' + ''terra'', 'land, earth'). To the ancient Romans, the Mediterranean was the center of the Earth as they knew it.
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• Space
  ...atics]] which measures spatial relations, was popularised by the [[ancient Greeks]], although earlier societies had developed measuring systems. The [[SI|Int
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• Paper 85 - The Origins of Worship
  85:1.3 All [[ancient]] [[clans]] and [[tribes]] had their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_my ...[superstitious]] [[practice]] of rapping on wood perpetuate certain of the ancient [[customs]] of tree worship and the later-day tree cults.
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• Atlantis
  '''Atlantis''' (in [[Ancient Greek|Greek]], Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος}, "island of [[Atlas (mythol ...stic Atlantis in ''Critias'' — would have made the strategy of the [[Ancient Greece|Greek civilization]] during their conflict with the [[Achaemenid Emp
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• Euthanasia
  ...nor give advice which may cause his death.”[11] Despite this, the ancient Greeks and Romans generally did not believe that life needed to be preserved at an ...of [[pleasure]] lures--this introduces a new factor into racial survival; ancient man exposed undesired children to die; moderns refuse to bear them.[https:/
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• Paper 80 - Andite Expansion in the Occident
  80:3.1 The [[ancient]] [[centers]] of the [[culture]] of the blue man were located along all the .../wiki/Kurd highland home north of Mesopotamia]. These progenitors of the [[Greeks]] were led westward by Sato, a direct descendant of [https://nordan.daynal.
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• Eastern philosophy
  ...often overlooked in many North American and European universities, just as ancient "Western" and monotheistic claims are also overlooked in the last few decad ...Lokayata or Lokyāta, was a materialist and atheist school of thought with ancient roots in India. It proposed a system of ethics based on rational thought. H
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• Paper 86 - Early Evolution of Religion
  ...n of [[chance]] and [[luck]] strongly pervaded the [[philosophy]] of all [[ancient]] peoples. Even in recent times in the [[Wisdom of Solomon]] it is said: "I ...rent]] [[idea]] regarding the [[destiny]] of the [[ghost]] [[soul]]. The [[Greeks]] believed that weak men must have weak [[souls]]; so they invented [https:
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• Chemistry
  ...als (e.g. [[History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent|metallurgy in ancient India]]). The greed for gold led to the discovery of the process for its pu ...a science was almost created by the Muslims; for in this field, where the Greeks (so far as we know) were confined to industrial experience and vague [[hypo
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• Metaphysics
  ...a broad scope, and in many cases was founded in [[religion]]. The ancient Greeks did not draw a distinction between this use and their model for the [[cosmo The Greeks took some extreme positions on the nature of change: [[Parmenides]] denied
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