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Mythology figures prominently in most religions, and most mythology is tied to at least one religion. Some use the words myth and mythology to portray the stories of one or more religions as false, or dubious at best. While nearly all dictionaries include this definition, "myth" does not always imply that a story is either false or true. The term is most often used in this sense to describe religions founded by ancient societies whose belief systems are nearly extinct. By extension, many people do not regard the tales surroundi ...

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The word mythology (from the Greek μυϑολογία mythología, "storytelling" [1]) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe and humanity. In modern usage, "mythology" is either the body of myths from a particular culture or religion (as in Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology or Norse mythology) or the ...

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• Mythology - Definition
• Mythology - Religion and mythology
• Mythology - Classifications
• Mythology - Related concepts
• Mythology - Formation of myths
• Mythology - Myths as depictions of historical events
• Mythology - Other theories
• Mythology - Modern mythology
• Mythology - Myths by region
• Mythology - Africa
• Mythology - Asia non-Middle East
• Mythology - Australia and Oceania
• Mythology - Europe
• Mythology - Middle East
• Mythology - North America
• Mythology - South America and Mesoamerica
• Mythology - Mythological archetypes
• Mythology - Mythological creatures
• Mythology - Books on mythology

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The swastika (from Sanskrit svastika) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles either left-facing (卍) or right-facing (卐). It is traditionally oriented so that a main line is horizontal, though it is occasionally rotated at forty-five degrees, and the Hindu version is often decorated with a dot in each quadrant. ...

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• Swastika - Overview
• Swastika - Etymology and alternative names
• Swastika - History
• Swastika - Adoption of the swastika in the West
• Swastika - Geometry and symbolism
• Swastika - Sauwastika
• Swastika - Art and architecture
• Swastika - Religion and mythology
• Swastika - Hinduism
• Swastika - Buddhism
• Swastika - Jainism
• Swastika - The Abrahamic religions
• Swastika - Other Asian traditions
• Swastika - Native American traditions
• Swastika - Pre-Christian European traditions
• Swastika - Asatru
• Swastika - Early 20th century
• Swastika - Europe
• Swastika - North America
• Swastika - Nazi Germany
• Swastika - Taboo in Western countries
• Swastika - Apperance in Media

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Beer, generally, is an alcoholic beverage produced through the fermentation of sugars suspended in an aqueous medium, and which is not distilled after fermentation. The unfermented sugar solution, called wort, is obtained from steeping, or "mashing," malted grains, usually barley. Alcoholic beverages made from the fermentation of sugars derived from non-grain sources — fruit juices or honey, for example — are generally not called "beer," despite being produced by ...

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• Beer - Beer in antiquity
• Beer - Beer in the Middle Ages
• Beer - Beer in early European history
• Beer - Beer during the Industrial Revolution
• Beer - History of modern beer
• Beer - Etymology
• Beer - Mythology
• Beer - Ingredients
• Beer - Water
• Beer - Malt
• Beer - Hops
• Beer - Yeast
• Beer - Clarifying agent
• Beer - The brewing process
• Beer - Packaging and presentation
• Beer - Varieties of beer
• Beer - Ale
• Beer - Lager
• Beer - Spontaneous fermentation
• Beer - Hybrid beers
• Beer - Beer in a social context
• Beer - Beer around the world
• Beer - Africa
• Beer - Americas
• Beer - Asia
• Beer - Australasia
• Beer - Europe
• Beer - Related beverages

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Labrys is the term for a doubleheaded axe, known to the Classical Greeks as pelekus πέλεκυς or sagaris (the term for a single-bladed axe being hēmipelekus "half-pelekus", e.g. Il. 23.883). Representations of the labrys are on Neolithic finds of "Old Europe", and the labrys is continued in Minoan Thracian, Greek (and Byzantine) art and mythology. It also appears in African mythology (see Shango). Today, it is sometimes used as a symbol associated with female and matristic power. Labrys - Etymo ...

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• Labrys - Etymology
• Labrys - Minoan civilization
• Labrys - Ancient Greece
• Labrys - Popular culture

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Like the vast supercontinent Eurasia, the culture of Asia is the aggregate of the cultural heritage of many nationalities, societies, religions, and ethnic groups in Asia. The continent is often divided into geographic and cultural subregions, including the Caucasus, Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia (the "Indian subcontinent"), North Asia, and Southeast Asia. (Southwest Asia and the Middle East are often considered geographically but not culturally Asian). Asian cultures also range ...

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• Culture of Asia - Nationalities and ethnic groups
• Culture of Asia - Architecture
• Culture of Asia - Art
• Culture of Asia - Visual arts
• Culture of Asia - Performing arts
• Culture of Asia - Mythology and folklore
• Culture of Asia - Languages
• Culture of Asia - Literature
• Culture of Asia - Classical
• Culture of Asia - Modern
• Culture of Asia - Philosophy
• Culture of Asia - Religions
• Culture of Asia - Festivals & celebrations
• Culture of Asia - Food & drink
• Culture of Asia - Culture by people
• Culture of Asia - Notes

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VE, Ve or ve may refer to: Ve, a character in Norse mythology Ve as gender-neutral pronoun Ve (Cyrillic), a character from the Cyrillic alphabet V-E Day, Victory in Europe Day Vedas, part of Hindu Shruti Venda language (ISO 639 alpha-2, ve) Venezuela (ISO country code, VE) Visalia Electric Railroad (AAR reporting mark VE) +ve or -ve, shorthand for

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Santalaceae (Viscaceae) Loranthaceae Mistletoe is the common name for various parasitic plants of the families Santalaceae (in the section of the family formerly separated as Viscaceae) and Loranthaceae. The name was originally applied to Viscum album (European Mistletoe, Santalaceae; the only species native in Great Britain and much of Europe), and subsequently to other related species, including Phoradendron leucarpum (the Eastern Mistletoe of eastern North America, also Santalaceae). In an example ...

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• Mistletoe - Uses and mythology

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In Greek mythology, according to tradition, the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived to the far north of Greece, near the Ural Mountains. Their land, called Hyperborea, or Hyperboria ("beyond the Boreas (north wind)"), was perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day. The Greeks thought that Boreas, the god of the north wind, lived in Thrace, and therefore Hyperborei was an unspecified nation in the northern parts of Europe and Asia. Alone among the Olympians, Apollo was venerated among the Hyperboreans ...

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• Hyperborea - Modern Meaning
• Hyperborea - Hyperborea in Recent Fiction
• Hyperborea - Hyperboreans in Nazi Mysticism

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Literature Music Fine arts Cuisine Folklore Mythology Spirituality Actors Composers Painters Poets Writers Castles Museums Religious UNESCO WHS The Culture of Romania is rich and varied. Like Romanians themselves, it is fundamentally defined as the meeting point of three regions—Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans—but cannot be fully included in any of them. The Romanian identity formed on a substratum of mi ...

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• Culture of Romania - Historical evolution
• Culture of Romania - The beginnings
• Culture of Romania - The birth of a nation
• Culture of Romania - Classical age
• Culture of Romania - Golden age
• Culture of Romania - Post-war period
• Culture of Romania - Evolutions after 1989
• Culture of Romania - Traditions
• Culture of Romania - Folklore
• Culture of Romania - Romanian mythology
• Culture of Romania - Spirituality and religion
• Culture of Romania - Traditional cuisine
• Culture of Romania - Heritage of the minorities
• Culture of Romania - Architecture and engineering
• Culture of Romania - Media and television
• Culture of Romania - Music in present day Romania
• Culture of Romania - Sports and entertainment

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The Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) is the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. It lives in woodlands in central Europe, the southern united states, the Mediterranean regions, across southern Asia and as far as Indonesia. Animals similar to the wild boar include the warthog of Africa and the peccary or javelina of the American Southwest; but these animals do not share the pig's taxonomic genus. Wild boars can reach up to 440 lb (200 kg) and can be up to 6 feet (1.8 m) long. If surprised or cornered they may become aggressive and can cause injury with their tusks. However, this is quite rare and usually only occurs if ...

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• Boar - Wild or feral
• Boar - Habits
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• Boar - Hunting
• Boar - Mythology and symbolism
• Boar - Commercial use
• Boar - Boar meaning an an adult male of certain animals

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The Big Bad Wolf (sometimes called the Big Ol' Wolf) is a fictional character who first appeared in the Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood, folk tales that can be traced to the literary salons of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Big Bad Wolf - Origins. The origin of the Big Bad Wolf lies in European folk tales and mythologies based on the deep ambiguity of human attitudes to the wolf. Wolves are usually afraid of human beings and prefer to keep to themselves, but in ancient Europe ...

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• Big Bad Wolf - Origins
• Big Bad Wolf - The Bad Wolf in fiction
• Big Bad Wolf - Disney's Big Bad Wolf Zeke Wolf
• Big Bad Wolf - Other Bad Wolves

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The term "entheogen" was coined in 1979 by a group of ethnobotanists and scholars of mythology (Carl A. P. Ruck, Jeremy Bigwood, Danny Staples, Richard Evans Schultes, Jonathan Ott and R. Gordon Wasson). The literal meaning of the word is "that which causes (a person) to be in God". The translation "creating the divine within" that is sometimes given is not quite correct — entheogen implies neither that something is created (as opposed to just perceiving something that is already there) nor that that which is experienced is wit ...

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Entheogen, Entheogen - Terminology and uses of the word, Entheogen - Use of entheogens, Entheogen - Entheogen-using cultures, Entheogen - Africa, Entheogen - Americas, Entheogen - Asia, Entheogen - Europe, Entheogen - Middle East, Entheogen - Oceania, Entheogen - Entheogen in Classical mythology and cult, Entheogen - Entheogens in literature

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The term "entheogen" was coined in 1979 by a group of ethnobotanists and scholars of mythology (Carl A. P. Ruck, Jeremy Bigwood, Danny Staples, Richard Evans Schultes, Jonathan Ott and R. Gordon Wasson). The literal meaning of the word is "that which causes God to be within a person". The translation "creating the divine within" is sometimes given, but it should be noted that entheogen implies neither that something is created (as opposed to just perceiving something that is already there) nor that that which is experienced is wit ...

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Entheogen, Entheogen - Terminology and uses of the word, Entheogen - Use of entheogens, Entheogen - Entheogen-using cultures, Entheogen - Africa, Entheogen - Americas, Entheogen - Asia, Entheogen - Europe, Entheogen - Middle East, Entheogen - Oceania, Entheogen - Entheogen in Classical mythology and cult, Entheogen - Entheogens in literature

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Some geologists believe that quite dramatic, greater than normal flooding of rivers in the distant past might have influenced the myths. One of the latest, and quite controversial, theories of this type is the Ryan-Pitman Theory, which argues for a catastrophic deluge about 5600 BC from the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea. Many other prehistoric geologic events, including tsunamis, have also been advanced as possible foundations for these myths. For example, some have asserted that the original versions of the Greek myth of Deukalion's ...

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Deluge mythology, Deluge mythology - Flood myths in various cultures, Deluge mythology - Ancient Near East, Deluge mythology - Europe, Deluge mythology - Americas, Deluge mythology - India, Deluge mythology - China, Deluge mythology - Batak Indonesia, Deluge mythology - Theories of origin, Deluge mythology - Other references

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Although entheogens are taboo in Christian and Islamic societies, their ubiquity and prominence in the spiritual traditions of other cultures is unquestioned. The entheogen, "the spirit, for example, need not be chemical, as is the case with the ivy and the olive: and yet the god was felt to be within them; nor need its possession be considered something detrimental, like drugged, hallucinatory, or delusionary: but possibly instead an invitation to knowle ...

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Entheogen, Entheogen - Terminology and uses of the word, Entheogen - Use of entheogens, Entheogen - Entheogen-using cultures, Entheogen - Africa, Entheogen - Americas, Entheogen - Asia, Entheogen - Europe, Entheogen - Middle East, Entheogen - Oceania, Entheogen - Entheogen in Classical mythology and cult, Entheogen - Entheogens in literature

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Naturally occurring entheogens such as Datura were, for the most part, discovered and used by older cultures, as part of their spiritual and religious life, as plants and agents which were respected, or in some cases revered. By contrast, artificial and modern entheogens, such as MDMA, never had a tradition of religious use. Currently entheogens are used in three principle ways: as part of established traditions and religions, secularly for personal spiritual development, and secularly in a manner similar to recreational drugs. A less ...

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Entheogen, Entheogen - Terminology and uses of the word, Entheogen - Use of entheogens, Entheogen - Entheogen-using cultures, Entheogen - Africa, Entheogen - Americas, Entheogen - Asia, Entheogen - Europe, Entheogen - Middle East, Entheogen - Oceania, Entheogen - Entheogen in Classical mythology and cult, Entheogen - Entheogens in literature

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The use of entheogens in human cultures is generally ubiquitous throughout recorded history. The number of entheogen-using cultures is therefore very large. Some of the instances better known to Western scholarship are discussed here. Entheogen - Africa. The best-known entheogen-using culture of Africa is the Bwitists, who used a preparation of the root bark of Iboga (Tabernanthe iboga). A famous entheogen of ancient Egypt is the Blue Lotus (Nymphaea caerulea). There is evidence for the use o ...

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Entheogen, Entheogen - Terminology and uses of the word, Entheogen - Use of entheogens, Entheogen - Entheogen-using cultures, Entheogen - Africa, Entheogen - Americas, Entheogen - Asia, Entheogen - Europe, Entheogen - Middle East, Entheogen - Oceania, Entheogen - Entheogen in Classical mythology and cult, Entheogen - Entheogens in literature

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