garbhadhana-samskara

a Vedic purificatory process performed for the conception of children.

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daityas

Demons descended from the children of Diti, a wife of Kashyapa.

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Danavas

Demons descended from the children of Danu, a wife of Kashyapa.

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danava:

danava (dhaanava). Class of demons, daityas, or asuras; enemies of the Gods (devas). Children of Dhanu and Kasyapa.

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Runaputhras:

Runaputhras: children born in order to recover undischarged loans given by them to the man who has now come as the father (SSS-III)

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Upapandavas:

Upapandavas (Pandavas): the children of queen Draupadi and the early deceased King Pandu. (BV-3)

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Vidya Vihars:

Vidya Vihars: "education through joy"; schools for children developed by Sai Baba (SSS-IV)

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Asvatthama:

Asvatthama: the nefarious son of the great military teacher Dronacarya who murdered the children of the Pandavas.

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Bal Vikas:

Bal Vikas ('Blossoming of the Child'): Spiritual education program for children meaning awakening of the child. (SSS-IV)

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Sravana:

Sravana (Shraavana). Son of hermits; was killed accidentally by Dasaratha, who was cursed by Sravana's parents to die from loss of children.

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Gehenna, in Hebrew Hinnom. No hell at all, but a valley near Jerusalem, where Israelites immolated their children to Moloch. In that valley a place named Tophet was situated, where a fire was perpetually preserved for sanitary purposes. The prophet Jeremiah informs us that his countrymen, the Jews, used to sacrifice their children on that spot.

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Eurasians. An abbreviation of "European-Asians". The mixed coloured races: the children of the white fathers and the dark mothers of India, or vice versa.

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Vivasvan

The current sun-god. His children include Yamaraja, the river Yamuna, Vaivasvata Manu, and Sanaishcara (the ruler of the planet Saturn).

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AWD GOGGIE: A Nursery Bogie (one used to scare young children) A protector of fruit most often found in woods and orchards.

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Kumaras

The first four sons of Brahma. Brahma requested them to beget children, but they refused, preferring to remain forever celibate in the bodies of five-year-olds.

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THE CHARGE –

1. modern form written by Doreen Valiente. A message from the Goddess to her children. (TRASB)

2. To impart psychic energy to. (NAD)

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CHARGE OF THE GODDESS: The Traditional words of the Goddess to her followers, or "hidden children". Normally declaimed by the HPS at every coven Circle.

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NURSERY RHYME: Cute doggerel or poems supposedly written for the amusement of children. Much Pagan lore was hidden in these ditties during the years of witch persecutions.

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infantile tuina therapy (infantile tuina): Adaptation of Tuina to children under or around age five.

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Easwaramma:

Easwaramma (Namagiriamma): The name of Sai Baba's mother (Easwaramma Day: 6th of May, and is dedicated to the service of children by children) (SSS-IV) Namagiriamma was the actual name of Easwaramma, given by her parents. As Kondama Raju recognized My divinity, he told his son, Pedda Venkama Raju to change her name to Easwaramma as he was very well aware that she was the mother of Easwara Himself (Discourses-d12)

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Hesperos (Greek) Venus as the evening star, brother of Eosphoros or Phosphoros (equivalent to the Roman Lucifer), the morning star, children of dawn and twilight. In Hesiod they are children of Astraios and Eos (starry heaven and dawn). Hesperos was glorified in early Christian and pagan bridal songs, and Blavatsky calls Hesperos the father of the Hesperides. (SD 1:386; BCW 8:16-8)

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Gwydion (Welsh) The son of Don (Irish, Dana). There were two chief god-families: the Children of Don and the Children of Llyr. Gwydion might be equated with Hermes. His castle (Caer Gwydion) is the Milky Way, but also (like many of the stars and constellations) it was projected in Wales somewhere. An exactly similar projecting of celestial powers and functions into human life was at one time universal. One has to divine the functions of these gods from corresponding figures in other mythologies: in the Mabinogi they are all euhemerized into men.

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