Mendes (Μένδης), the Greek name of ancient Djedet (modern تل الربع Tall al-Rubˁ), is a city in the eastern Nile delta (30°58′N 31°30′E). It was the capital of the 16th Lower Egyptian nome, and during the 29th dynasty, it was the capital of ancient Egypt. It lays on the Mendesian branch of the Nile (now silted up), about 35 kilometres east of Mansura. The site is today the largest surviving tell in the Nile delta, and consists of both Tell al-Rubˁ (the site of the main temple enclosure) and Tell Tima ...

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The goat of Mendes was a temple goat utilized in an ancient cult in the city of Mendes, Egypt. Supposedly, the goat copulated with priestesses in certain religious ceremonies. The cult was still known for its bestiality (and may have even been practicing) at the inception of Christianity during the reign of the Roman Empire. The practices of the Mendes cult inspired the Christian association of goats with Satan and paganism in general. This idea was especially strong ...

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Aristides Sousa Mendes (1885–1954) was a Portuguese diplomat, who fought against his own government for the safety of European Jews in the years before World War II. Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches was born in Cabanas de Viriato, in the district of Viseu, Beira region, Portugal, on July 19, 1885. His family had aristocratic origins. His father had been a judge, and Sousa Mendes’ twin brother César would become Foreign Minister in 1932–33 under the regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. Sousa Mendes studied law ...

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Known rulers, in the History of Egypt, for the Twenty-Ninth Dynasty. The Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-First Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Late Period. Nefaarud I, or Nepherites, founded the Twenty-Ninth Dynasty of Egypt (according to an account preserved in a papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum) by defeating Amyrtaeus in open battle, and later putting him to death at Memphis. Nefaarud made his capital at Mendes. On his dea ...

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Tikkun (תיקון) is a Hebrew word. It has several meanings, all of which are related to Judaism: Tikkun Olam, the Jewish concept of "mending the world" Tikkun, a bimonthly newsmagazine of politics and culture from a progressive Jewish point of view Tikkun, a book used when learning to chant Torah portions. Other related archivesHebrew, Judaism, Tikkun, Tikkun Olam, Torah, newsmagazine, progressive

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This article is about Kadesh in Syria. For the other Kadesh, see Kadesh (South of Israel) Kadesh (the most popular spelling; more accurately Qadesh) was an ancient city of the Levant, located on the Orontes River, probably identical to the remains at Tell Nebi Mend, about 24 km southwest of Hims (ca. 34°35′N 36°31′E) in what is now western Syria. Kadesh - History. Kadesh is first noted as one of two Canaanite cities (the other being Megiddo) that led a coalition of ...

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The Bevis Marks Synagogue, or Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue is the oldest Jewish house of worship in London; established by the Sephardic Jews in 1698, when Rabbi David Nieto took spiritual charge of the congregation. At that time the worshipers met in a small synagogue in Creechurch Lane; but the considerable influx of Jews made it necessary to obtain other and commodious quarters. Accordingly a committee was appointed, consisting of Antonio Gomes Serra, Menasseh Mendes, Alfonso Rodrigues, Manuel Nunez Miranda, Andrea Lopez ...

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The city of Bo is the administrative center of the Bo District in Sierra Leone. Centerally located, it lies on the main rail line outh of Freetown. From 1930 until independence in 1961, it was the capital of the Protectorate of Sierra Leone. It has a population of around 269,000 people, largely from the Mende tribe. It is known for the English public school-style Bo School, and as a centre for the trading of palm kernals and diamond. Other related archives1930, 1961, Bo District, English, Fre

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Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901–19 May 1989) was a journalist, socialist theorist and writer. C. L. R. James - Birth and early career. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, on the island of Trinidad, he attended the Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain before becoming a cricket journalist and also writing fiction. Together with Albert Gomes and Alfred Mendes, he was a member of the Beacon Group, a circle of writers associated with The Beacon magazine. In 1932, he moved to Nelson in Lancas ...

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In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000, the C'tan originally lived as energy beings that fed on the stars themselves. They are also called Star Gods (the word C'tan means Star God) or star vampires. They were discovered and transferred to the physical world by the Necrontyr when they were given bodies made of Necrodermis, also known as living metal. Necrodermis is one of the hardest materials in existence, but can assume any form and is also capable of mending itself when damaged and integrati ...

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Mandaeism (Mandaic mandaiuta) is a blanket term for the religion of the Mandaeans (Classical Mandaic mandaiia, Neo-Mandaic Mandeyānā) who are the followers of Mendā d-Heyyi (Mandaic manda ḏ-hiia "Knowledge of Life"). Mandaeism is a monotheistic religion practiced primarily in southern Iraq and the Iranian province of Khuzestan, as well as among a substantial diaspora population in Europe, Australia, and North America. The exact number of Mandaeans worldwide is unknown, but conservative gues ...

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The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of various ethnic, religious and political groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to murder every possi ...

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On December 22, 1988, Mendes was assassinated at his Xapuri home. In December, 1990 rancher Darcy Pereira and his father Darly Alves da Silva were sentenced to 19 years in prison for their part in Mendes' assassination. In February, 1992, they won a retrial, but remained in prison. In 1993, they staged an escape, but Darly was recaptured and as of 2004, is still in prison. The death of Chico Mendes made international headlines, including being on the front page of the New York Times. After his death, and the international media ...

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Mendes grew up in a family of rubber tappers in Acre State, Brazil, and when he was of age, continued on in the family tradition. However, rubber prices had collapsed in the 1960s, and many landowners were selling their properties to the highest bidder - which in most cases, meant cattle ranchers. Rubber tappers were finding themselves pushed out of their lands. In the 1970s, he joined a band of nonviolent activists attempting to stop the logging of the forest. They would march down logging trails, overrun forest clearance parties, di ...

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Mendes then began to move into a more mainstream political arena. He stood successfully for the local council in Xapuri. He was a leading local member of the socialist Workers Party (PT). He advocated the idea of creating forest reserves that would be managed by traditional communities, and sustainably harvesting goods such as rubber and Brazil nuts. He saw benefit in uniting the rubber tappers in an attempt to hold their ground against the ranchers, and founded the Xapuri Rural Workers' Union, becoming its President. Over the next few years, Mendes and the union had some successes, but he decided that it would be more benefici ...

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In 1987, after being contacted by the Environmental Defense and National Wildlife Federation, Mendes flew to Washington D.C. in an attempt to convince the Inter-American Development Bank that their road project in his area would end in disaster, unless it took into consideration the preservation of the forest and the livelihoods of its inhabitants. He was successful, with the project first being postponed, and then, with his participation, renegotiated. He won two international environmental awards for this. On his return, he met with General Bayma Denys, the Minister of the Military Cabinet of the Presidency, and ...

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Mendes [from Greek Bendes or Mendes from Egyptian Ba-neb-Tet ram]

Generally associated with the worship of the Goat of Mendes, also known as Baphomet. However, the goat was really a ram, the ram symbol of later Egypt, probably adopted when the equinoctial point entered the sign of the Ram, seen in the common usage of ram-headed deities, especially Khnemu. Mendes was a town in the Nile delta where the worship of the mystical ram-headed Ammon or Amen prevailed, as it did at Hermopolis and Lycopolis.

Ammon (the concealed) was a theological personification signifying the immense hidden divinity of the world who is not only self-engendered in his own spiritual being, but who is the source whence flow forth into manifestation the wide-flowing differentiated hierarchies of nature.

Because this idea involved the conception of generation and reproduction, the thought very soon became degenerate even in Egypt, and thus it was that later ages clothed Ammon with some of the merely naturally reproductive qualities that the Greeks gave their nature god Pan. Certain Greek authors twisted this into the story that the Egyptians worshiped a goat, probably from confusion with Pan, who was represented as being goat-limbed and who was, like Ammon but in a lower field of thought, a personification of nature.

Diodorus (1, 88) compares the worship of the Ram of Mendes to that of Priapus, while Manetho ascribes the origin of the cult to Kakau, a king of the 2nd dynasty.

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Mendes (Ancient Greek). The name of the demon-goat, alleged by the Church of Rome to have been worshipped by the Templars and other Masons. But this goat was a myth created by the evil fancy of the odium theologicum. There never was such a creature, nor was its worship known among Templars or their predecessors, the Gnostics.

The god of Mendes, or the Greek Mendesius, a name given to Lower Egypt in pre-Christian days, was the ram-headed god Ammon, the living and holy spirit of Ra, the life-giving sun; and this led certain Greek authors into the error of affirming that the Egyptians called the "goat" (or the ram-headed god) himself, Mendes. Ammon was for ages the chief deity of Egypt, the supreme god; Amoun-Ra the "hidden god", or Amen (the concealed) the Self-engendered who is "his own father and his own son".

Esoterically, he was Pan, the god of nature or nature personified, and probably the cloven foot of Pan the goat-footed, helped to produce the error of this god being a goat. As Ammon’s shrine was at Pa-bi-neb-tat, "the dwelling of Tat or Spirit, Lord of Tat" (Bindedi in the Assyrian inscriptions), the Greeks first corrupted the name into Bendes and then into Mendes from "Mendesius". The "error" served ecclesiastical purposes too well to be made away with, even when recognized.

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