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PATRIARCHAL: Term used to apply to the world since the matrifocal clans that worshipped Goddesses were supplanted by codified religions that honor all-male deity(s).

 
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Patriarchs One of the names given to rulers over men and racial periods. Chaldeo-Judaism has presented its gods as patriarchs. In the Qabbalah, the Sephiroth become the creators and afterwards temporal patriarchs, both of time and space.
 
Mankind from the first root-race to the beginning or even middle of the third root-race, is ruled by watchers or guides; after, by patriarchs or demigods, heroes, etc., the names given to these different classes of overseeing entities varying in different countries. But the word patriarch has special reference to the genealogies in Genesis: Adam to Noah, the descendants of Noah''s three sons, the sons of Jacob.
 
Those from Adam to Noah are given in two ways which do not agree; but, as is the case with Indian rishis, they are at times convertible and interchangeable. They represent, among other things, pre-diluvian races and ages; and if Adam be regarded as pertaining to the fifth root-race only, to pre-Adamic races.
 
They are at different times chronological data, symbols of solar and lunar years, of astronomical periods, and even of physiological functions when applied to races, as in other symbolic systems of mythological belief. The number for Enoch is 365, which is recognizable; the sons of Jacob stand for the signs of the zodiac. We have here a fragment of the ancient mystery-language with its seven keys; a single name, for instance, standing for a person, a race, or an age, etc. The Sanskrit prajapatis (progenitors) is parallel in one sense, as are the Mazdean Ameshaspentas.

 
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Buddhism in Thailand is largely of the Theravada school. As much as 94% of Thailand's population is Buddhist of the Theravada school, though Buddhism in this country has become integrated with folk beliefs such as ancestor worship as well as Chinese religions from the large Thai-Chinese population. Buddhist temples in Thailand are characterized by tall golden stupas, and the Buddhist architecture of Thailand is influenced heavily by the architecture of other Southeast Asian countries, particularly Cambodia and Laos, with which Thailan ... Including: Buddhism in Thailand - Influences Buddhism in Thailand - Ordination and clergy

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The Patriarch of Constantinople is the Ecumenical Patriarch, the "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox communion. In this capacity he is first in honor among all the Orthodox bishops, presides over any council of bishops in which he takes part and serves as primary spokesman for the communion, but has no jurisdiction over the other patriarchs or the other autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. In addition to being spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, he is the direct administrative head of some four million Ukrainian, Greek, Carpatho-Russian and Al ... Including:

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When the city was under the control of the Ottoman Turks, Jews were forbidden to enter and were only permitted to pray outside seven steps up the entering stairway. When Israel captured the area during the 1967 Six Day War, it is said that then Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan was given the keys and was supposedly shown the actual secret hidden passageways that lead to the below-ground tombs. In 1994, militant Jewish fundamentalist Baruch Goldstein killed 29 Palestinian Muslims during prayers at the site. The Wye River Accords provided a tempora ...

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(The Catholic Patriarchs were originally based in Diyarbakir) 91 Mar Yohanan Soulaqa VIII 1552-1555 92 Mar Abdisho IV Maroun 1555-1567 vacant 93 Mar Yab-Alaha V 1578-1580 (With Mar Shimun IX Denkha, the Patriachate transferred to Urmia.) 94 Mar Shimun IX Denkha 1580-1600 95 Mar Elia Shimun X 1600-1638 96 Mar Eshuyow Shimun XI 1638-1656 97 Mar Yoalaha Shimun XII 1656-1662 (With Mar Shimun XIII Denkha, the Patriachate tr ...

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