WHEEL OF THE YEAR: One full cycle of the seasonal year.

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A woman's menstrual cycle

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One full cycle of the seasonal year, beginning with the Samhain
celebration.

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Moksha:

liberation from the cycle of birth and death.

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SATYA-YUGA: the Age of Truth, the first of the four Hindu time-cycles.

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Shanah (Hebrew) [from the verbal root shanah to repeat, continue in cycles]

A year; a cycle, circle, or ring, with reference to cyclic periods of time. The ancient Jewish year was a lunar year, based on the recurrence of new moons within the annual solar cycle.

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SAMSARA: the wheel of transmigration, cycle of birth and death

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mukthi:

mukthi. Liberation; final release or emancipation from the cycle of birth and death.

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samsara:

samsara (samsaara). The objective world; sea of change; cycle of birth and death; transmigration.

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Nirvana:

Nirvana: Freedom, liberation from cycle of birth and death.

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moksha:

pursuit of liberation from the cycle of reincarnation, loss of the egoistic self, and union with brahman

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samskaras:

rituals and rites in one's life cycle

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Kalpa (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root klrip to be in order)

A generalizing term for a period or cycle of time.

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Great Year. See MESSIANIC CYCLE; EQUINOX

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Lunisolar Year The year of twelve lunations, widely used and often spoken of as the lunar year; otherwise, applicable to various cycles which adjust with more or less approximation the periods of the sun and moon, especially the period of 532 years (Dionysian cycle).

This is sometimes called the lunisolar year which combines the Metonic cycle of 19 solar years with the cycle of 28 years, which latter brings the days of the week into harmony with the days of the Julian year.

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Prabhavapyaya (Sanskrit). That whence all originates and into which all things resolve at the end of the life-cycle.

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Garuda (Sanskrit) A gigantic bird in the Ramayana, the steed of Vishnu. Esoterically - the symbol of the great Cycle.

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Kronos (Ancient Greek). Saturn. The God of Boundless Time and of the Cycles.

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PALINGENESIS

Recurrence of historical events in the same order, in an infinite series of cycles.

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yugas

Ages in the cycle of universal history. See Krita (Satya), Treta, Dvarapa, and Kali.

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mukti (moksha)

Liberation from the cycle of birth and death.

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moksha

Liberation from the cycle of birth and death.

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