ATHENA (Athene) - 1. Greek Goddess of Wisdom and held back the dawn for Odysseus and Penelope.

2. a feminine archetype expressed by a women interested in a kind of male power, philosophy and consciousness (Robert Bly) (NAD)

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BUFFALO - great being who stands at the western gate of the universe and holds back the waters that periodically in undate the earth in the Lakota system of ages; every year the buffalo loses a hair on one of its legs; every age it loses a leg; when all legs are lost; the world is flooded and renewed. (NAD)

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Khecari-mudra:

Khecari-mudra ("space-walking seal"): the Tantric practice of curling the tongue back against the upper palate in order to seal the life energy (prana); see also mudra

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Dravidians: The oldest known inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. Archeological remains of their civilization have been found in the Indus River Valley dating back to 2700 BCE. In some areas, the Dravidians were conquered by the Aryans when they migrated from the West around 1500 BC.

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Mjotudr (Icelandic) [from mjot measure + udr out of, exhausting]

In Norse mythology, the dying phase of a Tree of Life, the second half of its existence when the energies are retreating from the material back toward the spiritual realm. Applies to any world tree, large or small.

See also MJOTVIDR

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Nivritti-marga nivrtti-marga (Sanskrit) [from nivritti infolding + marga path, way]

The path that leads through unfolding back to the spiritual worlds; often called the path of light or luminous arc.

See also PRAVRITTI-MARGA

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Vehicles : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Vehicles

Vehicles - A symbol representing yourself. Are you driving (in control), in the back or passenger seat (not in control). Is your mother driving? Perhaps she has too much control of your life. A bus may symbolize yourself and the passengers aspects of your personality.

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Dream Interpretation Secret Rooms

If you rediscover a room which has been long forgotten, this dream may symbolize a neglected potential which should be taken into account again. It may be time to go back to college, get back in touch with your friends etc.

Source: Dream-Land, http://www.dream-land.info

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Definition and meaning of FINANCIAL GUARANTEE INSURANCE :

FINANCIAL GUARANTEE INSURANCE: Covers losses from specific financial transactions and guarantees that investors in debt instruments, such as municipal bonds, receive timely payment of principal and interest if there is a default. Raises the credit rating of debt to which the guarantee is attached. Investment bankers who sell asset-backed securities, securities backed by loan portfolios, use this insurance to enhance marketability. (See Municipal bond insurance)

(Source: Insurance Information Institute )

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School : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - School

School: Different schools mean different things. You are going to have to make a few changes if you see a primary school. A secondary school and you will have to make a choice between a great number of options. A boarding school shows you have supportive friends. A private one and you will face something risky. Go back to school and money plans will go well.

Source: The Illustrated Dream Dictionary by Russell Grant

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Definition and meaning of Cost of Insurance :

Cost of Insurance: The amount a policy owner pays to an insurer, minus what he or she gets back from the insurer. This expression is used when determining the true cost of permanent forms of Life Insurance to a policy owner. It considers the fact that premiums are paid in but also that an actual cash value is being built up, which is the portion that the insured will get back from the insurance. (LI)

(Source: InsWeb)

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Pratyahara (Sanskrit) [from a-prati-hri to bring back, recover, withdraw, reabsorb]

Withdrawals; the fifth state of yoga: the withdrawal of the consciousness from sensual or sensuous concerns, or from external objects, and the placing of the consciousness in the spiritual monad of the human constitution.

Also frequently a synonym for the processes eventuating in pralaya, the withdrawal or reabsorption of the world into cosmic spirit.

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Pravritti pravrtti (Sanskrit) [from pra forth, forwards + the verbal root vrit to roll, turn, unfold]

Evolution or emanation; the process of unwrapping or unfolding-forth, as of spirit entities into matter or, conversely, of matter-lives back into spirit entities. It is usually restricted to the process by which spirit descends into matter or the passage of the monads down the shadowy arc.

See also NIVRITTI

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Ilithyia (Latin) Eileithyia (Greek) (from Greek erchymai to come, come back)

She who comes to aid women who are in travail; Greek goddess of childbirth, daughter of Zeus and Hera. Essentially a lunar divinity, her generative functions are often adopted by other divinities, such as Hera, Artemis, Juno, Lucina, and Diana. She was worshiped especially at Crete and Delos, though sanctuaries and statues were dedicated to her in many places.

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Abnuaaya:

Also known as "Almas" and "Albasty", the Abnuaaya are the fabled 'wildmen' of the Caucusus Mountains and central Asia.

The creatures have a history of sightings dating back many centuries, perhaps even prior to 1420, and modern crypto zoologists believe that based off eyewitness accounts and descriptions, the Almases may be remnants of Neanderthal man or a species similar to the Yeti

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Anamnesis (Greek) (from ana back again + mimnesco remember)

Recollection; used by Plato in his theory of knowledge. He taught that the human elements of consciousness sprang from seeds of inherent knowledge in the soul, present in the mind as the result of past experiences of the egoic center or reincarnating ego. Thus the acquisition of knowledge is a process of reminiscence or recollection of former experiences.

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Ares, Areus (Greek) God of war, equivalent of the Latin Mars; commonly the god of battles, bloodshed, and strife. In a higher sense he is Migmar of the crimson veil, the light of daring burning in the heart, the dauntless energy that fights its way to supernal truth.

Paracelsus adopted Ares as signifying the power back of the differentiating forces in the kosmos, or those differentiated forces themselves, which Blavatsky equates with fohat.

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Arion (Greek) In Greek mythology, the first and fleetest horse, offspring of Poseidon or Neptune (god of the sea) and Ceres (goddess of the harvest).

Also a Greek poet and musician of Lesbos (fl. 625 BC), best known for having been rescued on a dolphin's back after an attempt was made to drown him at sea for his treasure. (SD 2:399n)

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Bundahish or Bundahis (Pahlavi) (from bun root, origin + dah to create)

Origin of creation; a Zoroastrian mythologico-theological work treating of cosmogony, the government of the world, and its end. Its present form is of later date than the Avesta, but the material contained in it is of distinctly archaic character and runs far back into the night of early Persian history.

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Cerberus (Greek) In Greek mythology, the three-headed dog with a serpent's tail, son of Typhon and Echidna, who guards the gate to Hades or the underworld. He was brought to the earth and back by Hercules as his twelfth labor.

Cerberus "came to the Greeks and Romans from Egypt. It was the monster, half-dog and half-hippopotamus, that guarded the gates of Amenti. . . . Both the Egyptian and the Greek Cerberus are symbols of Kamaloka and its uncouth monsters, the cast-off shells of mortals" (TG 74-5).

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Bandhakarana (Sanskrit) (from bandha bondage + karana from the verbal root kri to make, do)

Making or causing bondage; binding, fettering, or a holding back. Subba Row (Notes on BG 71) assumes that mulaprakriti is the real or principal bandhakarana as the originating cause of karmic activity, but this has reference only to the most abstract and spiritual side of things, as in the last analysis even karma itself may be traced backwards and inwards to mulaprakriti as the field of all possible activity.

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Avatansaka Sutra (Sanskrit) The Flower Ornament Scripture or The Flower Adornment Scripture; a long and very profound Buddhist scripture, which Nagarjuna "brought back from the Realm of the Nagas" (adepts) (BCW 14:510). The basis for modern translations is the Chinese translation of Shikshananda (652-710). (BCW 14:285, 423; 6:100-1)

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