Subhadra is the sister of Krishna. She is considered an incarnation of Maya who appears as per the instructions of Krishna. Subhadra was married to her first cousin Arjuna, the Pandava, who was the third son of Kunti. Subhadra and Arjuna were the parents of Abhimanyu, whose posthumous son Parikshita, born to the widowed Uttara, was the sole surviving dynasty of the entire Kuru family. The epic Mahabharata is a story based on the Kuru family as well as the Pandavas. S ...

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A stele (or stela) is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerary or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased, or living, inscribed, carved in relief or painted onto the slab. The word derives from the Greek stele, "standing block". The word can be pronounced /ˈstiː.lʌ/ or /Including:

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A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth, obscuring a small portion of the Sun's disc. During a transit, Venus can be seen from the Earth as a small black disc moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transits of 2004 and 2012 last about six hours). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of Venus is almost 4 times that of the Moon, Venus appears much smaller because ...

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• Transit of Venus - Conjunctions of Venus with the Sun
• Transit of Venus - Scientific interest in transits
• Transit of Venus - Past and future transits
• Transit of Venus - Grazing transits of Venus
• Transit of Venus - Simultaneous transits
• Transit of Venus - Cultural meaning

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Alias may refer to: In culture: Alias (TV series), an American television series. Alias (comics), an American comic book. Alias (rapper), the pseudonym of a rap artist who founded and records for anticon. Alias (band), a rock and roll band from Canada. Alias (Restaurant), a restaurant on Clinton Street in New York City. The heroine ...

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A mother goddess is a goddess portrayed as the Earth Mother who serves as a general fertility deity, the bountiful embodiment of the earth. From the elegant snake-offering goddess figures of Knossos to the rock-cut images of Cybele, to Dione ("the Goddess") who was invoked at Dodona, along with Zeus, until late Classical times, it is sometimes too facile to class all archaic female goddesses as manifestations of the mother goddess. Archaeologists tend to avoid such theories in interpreting sites and material remains and sometim ...

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• Mother goddess - Matriarchy and goddess history
• Mother goddess - Sumerian Mesopotamian and Greek goddesses
• Mother goddess - Celtic goddesses
• Mother goddess - Norse goddesses
• Mother goddess - Olympian goddesses
• Mother goddess - Hinduism
• Mother goddess - Shaktism
• Mother goddess - Mother goddess worship in Catholicism
• Mother goddess - Neopaganism

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >> List of numbers -- Integers 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 >> quinque-/quinqu-/quint- (from Latin) 5 (five) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the natural number following 4 and preceding 6. The SI prefix for 10005 is peta (P), and for its reciprocal femto (f). 5 number - In mathematics. Five is the third smallest prime number, after 2 and 3, and before 7. Because it can b ...

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• 5 number - In mathematics
• 5 number - In numbering systems
• 5 number - The Arabic glyph
• 5 number - In science
• 5 number - In astronomy
• 5 number - In various cultures
• 5 number - In music
• 5 number - In sports
• 5 number - In technology
• 5 number - In other fields
• 5 number - Years

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Certain drugs can affect the subjective qualities of perception, thought or emotion, resulting in altered interpretations of sensory input, alternate states of consciousness, or hallucinations. This general group of pharmacological agents can be divided into three broad categories: psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants. All of these agents act as neurotransmitter mimics, often as agonists or antagonists at neurotransmitter receptors. Their primary effects are markedly different from those of st ...

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• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Psychedelics
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Dissociatives
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Deliriants
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Etymology and alternative terms
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - History of use
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Traditional religious and shamanic use entheogens
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Early scientific investigations
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Hallucinogens after World War II
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Social status of hallucinogens
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Legal status
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Pharmacology
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Pharmacological classes of hallucinogens
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Psychedelics serotonin 5-HT_2A receptor agonists
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Dissociatives
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Deliriants anticholinergics
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Hallucinogenic plants fungi and animals
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Plants
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Fungi
• Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants - Animals

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The Maya calendar is actually a system of distinct calendars and almanacs used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. These different calendars tracked observable phenomena such as the solar year, the lunar year, and the synodic period of the planet Venus; others had a divinatory or ritualistic purpose without any known association to natural cycles. These calendars could be synchronised and interlocked in complex ways, their combina ...

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• Maya calendar - General overview
• Maya calendar - Maya concepts of time
• Maya calendar - Tzolk'in
• Maya calendar - Divination
• Maya calendar - Origin of the Tzolkin
• Maya calendar - Haab
• Maya calendar - Wayeb
• Maya calendar - Calendar Round
• Maya calendar - Long Count
• Maya calendar - Calculating Long Count dates
• Maya calendar - Calculating the Tzolkin date portion
• Maya calendar - Calculating the Haab date portion
• Maya calendar - End of the world?
• Maya calendar - Venus cycle

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A mantra is a religious syllable or poem, typically from the Sanskrit language. Their use varies according to the school and philosophy associated with the mantra. They are primarily used as spiritual conduits, words and vibrations that instill one-pointed concentration in the devotee. Other purposes have included religious ceremonies to accumulate wealth, avoid danger, or eliminate enemies. Mantras originated in India with Vedic Hinduism and were later adopted by Buddhists and Jains, now popular in various modern forms of spiritual practice which are loosely b ...

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• Mantra - Introduction
• Mantra - Mantra in Hinduism
• Mantra - Mantra Japa
• Mantra - Some Hindu mantras
• Mantra - Lead me from Ignorance to Truth
• Mantra - Hare Krishna Maha Mantra
• Mantra - The shanti mantras
• Mantra - Universal prayer
• Mantra - Other examples
• Mantra - The Hindu Bija Mantra
• Mantra - Remarks
• Mantra - What is Dharma?
• Mantra - The Significance of the Symbol Om
• Mantra - Mantras and Prayers
• Mantra - Kirtan and Bhajan
• Mantra - Vedic Conception of Sound
• Mantra - Mantra in Buddhism
• Mantra - Mantra in Shingon Buddhism
• Mantra - Mantra in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
• Mantra - Om mani padme hum
• Mantra - Some other mantras used by Tibetan Buddhists
• Mantra - Mantra in other traditions or contexts

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The common cold (also known as "acute nasopharyngitis") is a mild viral infectious disease of the nose and throat; the upper respiratory system. Symptoms include sneezing, sniffling, running/blocked nose (often these occur simultaneously, or in only one nostril); scratchy, sore, or phlegmy throat; coughing; headache; and tiredness. Colds typically last three to five days, with residual coughing lasting up to three weeks. As its name suggests, it is the most common of all human diseases, infecting subjects at an average rate of slightl ...

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• Common cold - Pathology
• Common cold - Cold as misnomer
• Common cold - Symptoms
• Common cold - Complications
• Common cold - Prevention
• Common cold - Treatment
• Common cold - Societal impact
• Common cold - History
• Common cold - Note

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Avidya, pronounced avidyā, is a Sanskrit word meaning Ignorance, delusion, unlearned, unwise. It is used extensively in Buddhist and Hindu texts, including the Upanishads. Avidya - Buddhist concept. Avidya plays a key role in Buddhism and Buddhist doctrine and is the primary cause of suffering in Samsara. Avidya is one of the Three Fires. Avidya is the first spoke on the Wheel of Life. Avidya is the first link of Pratitya-Samutpada. As one of the T ...

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• Avidya - Buddhist concept
• Avidya - From one to six aspects
• Avidya - In Advaita Vedanta
• Avidya - Adi Shankara on avidya

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Aum (also Om, ॐ) is the most sacred syllable in Hinduism, first coming to light in the Vedic Tradition. The syllable is sometimes referred to as the "Udgitha" or "pranava mantra" (primordial mantra); not only because it is considered to be the primal sound, but also because most mantras begin with it. As a seed syllable (bija), it is also considered holy in Esoteric Buddhism. In Devanagari it is written ॐ (Unicode U+0950) and in Tibetan script ༀ (Unicode U+0F00). Aum - The ...

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• Aum - The Significance of the Symbol Om
• Aum - Aum in Hindu tradition
• Aum - Origin
• Aum - Philosophy of AUM
• Aum - Om in Jain tradition
• Aum - Om in Buddhist tradition
• Aum - Om in Sikh tradition
• Aum - When you pronounce AUM:
• Aum - Some quotations from Hindu scriptures regarding AUM
• Aum - Other traditions interpretations and understandings

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Yab-yum (Tibetan for "father-mother") is a symbol in the Buddhist art of India, Nepal, and Tibet representing the male deity in sexual union with his female consort. It is generally understood to represent the primordial (or mystical) union of wisdom and compassion. The masculine form is passive, representing the compassion and skillful means (upaya) that have to be developed in order to reach enlightenment. The feminine form is active and represents wisdom (prajna), which is also necessary to enlightenment. United, the figures symbolize the union necessary to overcome the veils of ...

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Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. In the United States, 'cocoa' often refers to cocoa powder, the dry powder made by grinding cocoa seeds and removing the cocoa butter from the dark, bitter cocoa solids. By itself it has an extremely bitter flavor. Hot cocoa is often confused with hot chocolate, but hot cocoa is made from the cocoa solids, while true hot chocolate is made from whole chocolate. Cocoa - History. Chocolate and cocoa are ...

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• Cocoa - History
• Cocoa - World Production
• Cocoa - Harvesting
• Cocoa - Producing chocolate
• Cocoa - Use of cocoa
• Cocoa - Issues with cocoa as a commodity
• Cocoa - External link

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The scope of this indigenous peoples of the Americas article encompasses the definitions of indigenous peoples and the Americas as established in their respective articles. Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Early history. See also: Archeology of the Americas, Models of migration to the New World Indigenous peoples of the Americas - The Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory. Based on anthropological and genetic evidence, scientists generally agree that most indigenous ...

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• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Early history
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - The Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - European colonization of the Americas
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - United States
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Canada
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Mexico
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Belize
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Guatemala
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Brazil
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Argentina
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Other parts of the Americas
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Statistics on indigenous populations
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Cultural aspects
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Gender
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Music and art
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Controversial terminology
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Canada and the North
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Latin America

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The United Mexican States or Mexico (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México; regarding the use of the variant spelling Méjico, see section The name below) is a country located in North America, bordered by the United States to the north, and Belize and Guatemala to the southeast. It is the northernmost and westernmost country in Latin America, and also the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world. Mexico - History. Main article: History of Mexico < ...

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• Mexico - History
• Mexico - Pre-Hispanic Times
• Mexico - The Spanish Era
• Mexico - Mexican Independence
• Mexico - Government and politics
• Mexico - Political divisions
• Mexico - Major cities
• Mexico - Geography
• Mexico - Economy
• Mexico - Demographics
• Mexico - Religion
• Mexico - Languages
• Mexico - Education
• Mexico - Culture
• Mexico - The name

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Akashic Brotherhood is a Tradition of mages in Mage: the Ascension role-playing game game from White Wolf Game Studio. Their focus is Mind. Akashic Brothers (and Sisters) believe in, and strive to attain, the perfect harmony of one's individual mind with the One Mind. While this is quite Buddhist concept, this tradition doesn't limit itself to Buddhism, although it is intended to reflect an eastern way of mystical thinking. It includes elements of Veda ...

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The Nazi Ahnenerbe Forschungs und Lehrgemeinschaft organization was founded by Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Wirth, and Walter Darré on July 1st 1935 as a research foundation. It was incorporated into the larger SS in January 1939. The name of the society literally means "ancestral heritage", and it was originally devoted to research concerning the anthropological and cultural history of the German ra ...

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• Ahnenerbe - History
• Ahnenerbe - Travels Operations and Expeditions
• Ahnenerbe - Medical Experiments
• Ahnenerbe - Involvement of German soldiers
• Ahnenerbe - End of the War
• Ahnenerbe - Fantasy vs. reality
• Ahnenerbe - Resources
• Ahnenerbe - Notes

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Altun Ha is the name given ruins of an ancient Maya city in Belize, located in the Belize District about 30 miles (50 km) north of Belize City and about 6 miles (10 km) west of the shore of the Caribbean Sea. "Altun Ha" is a modern name in the Maya language, coined by translating the name of the nearby village of Rockstone Pond. The ancient name is at present unknown. The largest of Altun Ha's temple-pyramids, the "Temple of the Masonry Altars", is 54 feet (16 m) high. A drawing of this structure is the log ...

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Ancient Mesoamerican agriculture dates to the Archaic period of Mesoamerican chronology (8000-2000 BC). During this period, many of the hunter gatherer micro-bands in the region began to cultivate wild plants. The cultivation of these plants probably started out as creating known areas of fall back, or starvation foods, near seasonal camps, that the band could rely on when hunting was bad, or when there was a drought. The plants could have been brought purposely, or by accident. The former could have been done by bringing a wild plant ...

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• Ancient Mesoamerican agriculture - Crops
• Ancient Mesoamerican agriculture - Land Use

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Archaeoastronomy (also spelled Archeoastronomy) is the study of astronomy in its cultural context, drawing on archaeological and anthropological evidence. One aspect of it employs astronomical examination of archaeological sites to gain insights into the roles of astronomy in past cultures. A second aspect (sometimes known by the term ethnoastronomy) examines anthropological and ethnohistorical evidence for the astronomical practices of more modern, historical cultures. A third aspect of archaeoastronomy focuses on the c ...

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• Archaeoastronomy - Some Old World sites where archaeoastronomy is being explored
• Archaeoastronomy - Some New World sites where archaeoastronomy is being explored
• Archaeoastronomy - Some artifacts that throw light on archaeoastronomy

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3D Studio Max (sometimes called 3ds Max or just MAX) is a 3D computer graphics and animation program, written by Autodesk Media & Entertainment (formerly known as Discreet and Kinetix). It was developed as a successor to 3D Studio for DOS, but for the Win32 platform. Kinetix was later merged with Autodesk's latest acquisition, Discreet Logic. The current version of 3DS Max as of September 2005 is 8. 3D Studio Max - Overview. 3ds Max is one of the most widely-used 3D an ...

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• 3D Studio Max - Overview
• 3D Studio Max - Modeling Methods
• 3D Studio Max - Modeling with primitives
• 3D Studio Max - NURMS
• 3D Studio Max - Surface tool
• 3D Studio Max - NURBS
• 3D Studio Max - Polygon modelling
• 3D Studio Max - Particle systems
• 3D Studio Max - Features
• 3D Studio Max - MAXScript
• 3D Studio Max - Character Studio
• 3D Studio Max - Mental Ray

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