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Sabians: Encyclopedia - Sabian

Sabian is one of the world's largest manufacturers of cymbals. The company was founded in 1981 in Meductic, New Brunswick, Canada by Robert Zildjian, son of Avedis Zildjian III, the head of the Avedis Zildjian Company. Family tradition had it that the head of the company would only pass its secrets down to the oldest son, but Avedis III gave the information to both of his sons, Armand and Robert. This led to a family feud and a legal squabble, resulting in Robert leaving Zildjian to form the rival Sabian company. The settlement ...

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Sabian - External link

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Sabians: Encyclopedia - Sabians Sabian is a term that has been more or less inaccurately used to describe at least three religious groups (see Mandaeanism, Harranians or Sabeans, and Sabaeans). The term derives from the Arabic term "Sabi" (plural Sabiyah) meaning proselyte (i.e., one who has converted through Baptism but also reminiscent of a word meaning light) which was an appellation for a now obscure Arabic religious group. They are first mentioned in the Qur'an and later appear again in the writings of the Bahá'í Faith. Despite their clear documentation in traditions stemming from Islam, the actual nature of the group remains a matter o ...

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Sabians: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Sabians

Sabians. Astrolaters, so called; those who worshipped the stars, or rather their "regents ".

(See " Sabianism ".)

Sabians: Sabian Imagery in the Venus Transit

The Venus-Sun transit of June 7-8 2004 is a golden opportunity for humankind to gain access to the necessary and special knowledge that ensures human evolution and existence.

Sabians: The Venus Conjunction June 8 2004

Malvin Artley gives an exciting mythological background to Venus in connection to the forthcoming Venus Transits of 2004 and 2012. A must read if you are interested in the significance of the Venus Transit.

Sabians: Encyclopedia II - Sabians - Islamic reference

Marc Edmund Jones, founder of the Sabian Assembly, described them more or less accurately as "a Muslim group". They worship The Names (El-Esmea) as the stars. The whole debate on who the Sabians were is directly connected to the existence of the following verses from the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Islam. The Qur'an briefly announces the Sabians as people of the book and the Hadith provide further details as to who they were: "Those who believe, and the Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in God and the Last ...

The Sabaeans were ancient people who lived in what is today Yemen and north of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the 1st millennium BC and spoke an earlier version of a South Semitic language. They may be the same nation as the biblical kingdom of Sheba. They made substantial profits off the spice trade, especially frankincense, and left behind many inscriptions in the musnad (Old South Arabian) alphabet. They were polytheistic, and should not be confused with the Sabians mentioned in the Qur'an, whose name is written with the Arabic let

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Sabians: Encyclopedia - Harran

Harran, also known as Carrhae, is an archeological site in present day southeastern Turkey, 24 miles (39 kilometers) southeast of Sanli Urfa. In its prime, it controlled the point where the road from Damascus joins the highway between Nineveh and Carchemish. This location gave Harran strategic value from an early date. It is frequently mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions as early as the time of Tiglath-Pileser I, about 1100 BC, under the name Harranu, or "Road"( Akkadian harrānu, road, path, journey ). After the Shupiluliuma-Shattiwazza treaty, Harran was burned by a Hittite army under Piyashshili ...

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Sabians: Encyclopedia - Jethro

Jethro (יִתְרוֹ "His excellence/posterity," Standard Hebrew Yitro, Tiberian Hebrew Yiṯrô) is a figure from the Hebrew Bible. He is called a priest of Midian, and he becomes father-in-law to Moses. Jethro, also known as "Reuel," is recorded as living in Midian, a territory stretching from east of the Dead Sea south onto the Sinai. He was likely a descendant of Abraham through Abraham's son named Midian. Jethro's daughter, Zipporah, becomes Moses's wife after Moses flees Egypt, having killed an Egyp ...

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Sabians: Encyclopedia - Armand Zildjian

Armand Zildjian (1921 - December 26, 2002) was a manufacturer of cymbals and the head of the Avedis Zildjian Company. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Armand Zildjian was the scion of a cymbals-making tradition that dated back to his ancestor Avedis, who began the company in 1623 in Constantinople. By family tradition, the secrets of cymbals making were passed on only to the oldest son, but Armand's father, Avedis Zildjian III, gave the information to both of his sons, Armand and Robert. This began a legal battle which ended only when Robert formed the Sa ...

Sabians: Encyclopedia - Cymbal alloys

Cymbals are made from four main alloys, all of them copper-based. These are: Bell Bronze, Malleable Bronze, Brass and Nickel Silver. See also bell, gong, cymbal making. Cymbal alloys - Bell Bronze. Bell bronze, also known as bell metal, is the traditional alloy used for fine cymbals, many gongs and, as the name suggests, bells. It is normally stated to be one part tin to four parts copper, that is 20% tin, and this is still the most common formula. But there has always been some variation. Larger and ...

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Sabians: Encyclopedia - Avedis Zildjian Company

The Avedis Zildjian Company is one of the world's biggest manufacturers of cymbals and drum sticks and the oldest continuously operating company on Earth. Avedis Zildjian Company - History. The company was founded in 1623 in Istanbul by one Avedis, who, while looking for a way to turn base metal into gold, created an alloy combining tin, copper and silver into a sheet of metal that could make musical sounds without shattering. Avedis took the surname of Zildjian, Armenian for "son of a cymbals maker" ...

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Avedis Zildjian Company - History

Avedis Zildjian Company - Cymbal manufacture

Sabians: Encyclopedia - Chikara Pro Wrestling

CHIKARA also known as Chikara Pro Wrestling, or Chikara Pro is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They utilize an array of progressive concepts that have garnered them critical acclaim and a solid cult following, although virtually no commercial success along the way. Chikara Pro Wrestling - History. Chikara Wrestle Factory was founded as a wrestling school in January of 2002 in Allentown, Pennsylvania by Mike Quackenbush and Tom "Reckless Youth" ...

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Sabians: Encyclopedia - China cymbal

In western music, china type cymbals are cymbals deliberately manufactured to have a "trashy" tone in some ways similar to a chau gong. Image:Aachinatypes.jpg China type cymbals typically have a bell that is cylindrical or shaped like a truncated cone with its base the top of the bell, an outer rim that is turned up in the reverse direction to the main bow of the cymbal, little or no taper (change in thickness) from bell to rim, and an area including the inside of the bell that is unpolished. However some china type cymb ...

Sabians: Encyclopedia - Mandaeism

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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Sabians: Encyclopedia - Assault on Precinct 13 2005 film

Assault on Precinct 13 is a 2005 action/thriller movie, directed by Jean-François Richet. It is a loose remake of the 1976 movie of the same name by John Carpenter, with an updated plot, and was distributed and produced by Rogue Pictures. Assault on Precinct 13 2005 film - Plot. With only a few hours until the new year, Detroit's oldest police station Precinct 13, is about to close forever. Only a few officers are on duty for New Year's Eve, including Sergeant Jake Roenick (played by Hawke). Roenick ...

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Sabians: Encyclopedia - Dhimmi

A Dhimmi, or Zimmi (Arabic ذمي), as defined in classical Islamic legal and political literature, is a person living in a Muslim state who is a member of an officially tolerated non-Islamic religion. The term literally means person of the dhimma, the security treaty signed with the Muslim state. Dhimmi - Background. The Arabic word "dhimmi" is an adjective derived from the noun "dhimma", which means "being in the care of". The term initially applied to "People of the Book" living in lands un ...

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Sabians: Encyclopedia - Necromancy

Necromancy (Latin necromantia, Greek νεκρομαντία nekromantía) is the alleged divination by which a person raises the spirits of the dead or, in some cases, merely their corpses. The word derives from the Greek νεκρός nekrós "dead" and μαντεία manteía "divination". It has a subsidiary meaning reflected in an alternative and archaic form of the word, nigromancy, (a folk etymology using Latin niger, "black") in which the magical force of "dark powers" is gained from or by acti ...

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Necromancy - Necromancy in history

Necromancy - Spread of necromancy

Sabians: Encyclopedia - People of the Book

The People of the Book is a term in Islam for peoples who, according to the Qur'an, have received divine scriptures — generally interpreted to refer to the Taurat (the Torah) and Injeel (the New Testament). The term "People of the Book" (Hebrew עם הספר, Am HaSefer) is also used in Judaism, where it refers specifically to the Jewish people and the Torah. People of the Book - Application of term. In Islam, the term applies to monotheistic Abrahamic faiths older than Islam w ...

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Sabians: Encyclopedia - Cymbal

Cymbals (Fr. cymbales; Ger. Becken; Ital. piatti or cinelli), are a modern percussion instrument. Cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various cymbal alloys; see cymbal making for a discussion of their manufacture. Most modern cymbals are of indefinite pitch (tuned sets have been manufactured but are rare), whereas small cup-shaped cymbals based on ancient designs sound a definite note; see crotal. Cymbals are used in modern orchestras and many military, marching, concert and other bands. They are one of the two in ...