Hades (Greek: ᾍδης - Hadēs or Ἅιδης - Háidēs) ("unseen") means both the ancient Greek abode of the dead and the god of that underworld. The word originally referred to just the god; haidou, its genitive, was short for "the house of Hades", and eventually the nominative, too, came to designate the abode of the dead. (A related Hebrew word, She'Ol, for the abode ...

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• Hades - Hades: the place
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• Hades - Worship
• Hades - Hades in art
• Hades - Persephone
• Hades - Orpheus and Eurydice
• Hades - Minthe and Leuce
• Hades - Theseus and Pirithous
• Hades - Heracles
• Hades - Other names
• Hades - Usages in the New Testament
• Hades - Other usages
• Hades - Hades in Neopaganism

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 - Ranked  - Density Campania is a region of Southern Italy, bordering on Lazio to the north-west, Molise to the north, Puglia to the north-east, Basilicata to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. The region covers 13,595 km² and has a population of 5.7 million. The name derives from Latin, as it was called by Romans Campania felix ("fortunate countryside"), a name that is shared by the French province of Champagne.< ...

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An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature. It can also be a prediction of the future, from the gods, that is spoken through another object or life-form. In the ancient world many sites gained a reputation for the dispensing of oracular wisdom: they too became known as "oracles", as did the oracular utterances themselves, whose very name is derive ...

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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941), first published in 1890. It was aimed at a broad literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Bulfinch's Age of Fable. It offered a modernist approach, discussing religion dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon, rather than from a theological perspective. While the final worth of its contribution to anthropology will be newly e ...

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In Greek mythology, Hades (the "unseen"), the god of the underworld, was a son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. He had three older sisters, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera, as well as two younger brothers, Poseidon and Zeus: together they accounted for half of the Olympian gods. Upon reaching adulthood Zeus managed to force his father to disgorge his siblings. After their release the six younger gods, along with allies they managed to gather, challenged their parents and uncles for power in Titanomachy, a divine war. The war lasted for ...

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Hades, Hades - Hades: the place, Hades - Hades: the entity, Hades - Worship, Hades - Hades in art, Hades - Persephone, Hades - Orpheus and Eurydice, Hades - Minthe and Leuce, Hades - Theseus and Pirithous, Hades - Heracles, Hades - Other names, Hades - Usages in the New Testament, Hades - Other usages, Hades - Hades in Neopaganism

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This English translation attempts to preserve the trochaic meter of the Latin for the first four stanzas, in a style appropriate for the program for a performance. There are many alternative English translations on the Internet, such as [1] [2], and on the full Requiem page. The text: Dies Iræ! dies illa Solvet sæclum in favilla Teste David cum Sibylla! Day of wrath and terror looming! Heaven and earth to ash consuming, David's word a ...

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Dies Irae, Dies Irae - The poem itself, Dies Irae - Other versions, Dies Irae - Manuscript sources, Dies Irae - Musical settings, Dies Irae - Liturgical use

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Campania was part of Magna Graecia, the Greek colonies of southern Italy; the first Greek colony was founded at Cumae, north of present day Naples, in the 8th century BC. Etruscans and Samnites gave way to the expanding Roman Republic. In 217 BCE Hannibal entered Campania and by burning the crops of these fertile lowlands hoped to provoke the Roman commander Fabius Maximus Cunctator (the delayer). In this Hannibal failed; nor did he sufficiently weaken Roman prestige for any of the Campanian towns to rebel. Fabius, in turn failed to t ...

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Campania, Campania - History, Campania - Demographics

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Phrygia - Bronze Age migrations. After the collapse of the Hittite Empire at the beginning of the 12th century BC, the political vacuum in central/western Anatolia was filled by a wave of Indo-European migrants from Europe including the Phrygians, who established their kingdom, with a capital eventually at Gordium. It is still not known whether the Phrygians were actively involved in the collapse of the Hittite capital Hattusa, or whether they simply moved into the vacuum that followe ...

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Phrygia, Phrygia - Geography, Phrygia - Culture, Phrygia - History, Phrygia - Bronze Age migrations, Phrygia - Mythic Past, Phrygia - Golden Age of Midas, Phrygia - Cimmerian invasion, Phrygia - Croesus' Lydian Empire, Phrygia - Persian Empire, Phrygia - Alexander and the Successors, Phrygia - Rome

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Trojan War - Peleus and Thetis the apple and the judgment. See also Judgement of Paris. According to Greek mythology, Zeus became king of the gods by overthrowing his father Cronus; Cronus in turn had overthrown his father Ouranos. Zeus came to learn of a prophecy that he himself would be overthrown by a son of his. (Within the extent of Greek myth, though, this never happened). Another prophecy said of the sea-nymph Thetis, with whom Zeus had an affair, that her son would be greater th ...

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Trojan War, Trojan War - Background, Trojan War - Peleus and Thetis the apple and the judgment, Trojan War - The elopement of Helen, Trojan War - The marshalling of the forces, Trojan War - The War, Trojan War - Telephus, Trojan War - Philoctetes, Trojan War - Arrival, Trojan War - The death of Achilles, Trojan War - Achilles' armour/death of Ajax, Trojan War - Diomedes, Trojan War - The Trojan Horse, Trojan War - The aftermath, Trojan War - The Trojan War in art, Trojan War - Participants, Trojan War - Armies on the Greek side Achaeans, Trojan War - Armies on the Trojan side, Trojan War - Participants on the Greek side, Trojan War - Participants on the Trojan side, Trojan War - Participant/killer, Trojan War - Unknown side, Trojan War - Cultural References, Trojan War - In film

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Lamia in Bulgarian short stories and folk tales, is a mysterious creature with several heads, which can grow over and over again if cut, feeding on people's blood or (more often) killing young women. This monster often tortures villages and is to be found in caves or underground. In some tales, it has wings, in others, its breath is on fire. A Lamia has no gender but is usually perceived as a female. A Lamia in Basque legend is a water sprite that lives in caves. In the Basque Country, there are many places ...

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Lamia mythology, Lamia mythology - External link, Lamia mythology - Other uses of Lamia

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The mystical basis of his teaching is his doctrine of the "Eternal Gospel," founded on aninterpretation of the text in Revelation xiv, 6. His theories can be considered millenarist; he believed that history, on analogy with the Trinity, was divided into three fundamental epochs: The Age of the Father, corresponding to the Old Testament, characterized by obedience of mankind to the Rules of God; The Age of the Son, between the advent of Christ and 1260, represented by the New Testament, when the Man ...

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Joachim of Fiore, Joachim of Fiore - Books, Joachim of Fiore - Theory of the three ages, Joachim of Fiore - Condemnation, Joachim of Fiore - Neojoachimism

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Apocalyptic religious literature is regarded as a distinct branch of literature. This genre has several characteristic features. Apocalypse - Revelation of mysteries. It is a revelation of mysteries, things which lie beyond the ordinary range of human knowledge. God gives to select prophets or saints instruction in regard to hidden matters, whether things altogether foreign to human experience, or merely ev ...

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Apocalypse, Apocalypse - Characteristic features, Apocalypse - Revelation of mysteries, Apocalypse - Disclosure through a dream or vision, Apocalypse - Angels bear revelation, Apocalypse - Deals with the future, Apocalypse - The mysterious or fantastic, Apocalypse - Mystical symbolism, Apocalypse - The end of the world

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The Golden Bough attempts to define what almost all primitive religions share with each other, and with modern religions such as Christianity. Its thesis is that ancient religions were fertility cults that centred around the worship of, and periodic sacrifice of, a sacred king, the incarnation of a dying and reviving god, a solar deity who underwent a mystic marriage to a goddess of the earth, and who died at the harvest and who was reincarnated in the spring. Frazer claims that this legend is central to almost all of the world's myth ...

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The Golden Bough, The Golden Bough - Subject matter, The Golden Bough - Reception, The Golden Bough - Quotations, The Golden Bough - Editions of The Golden Bough, The Golden Bough - Critical analysis of The Golden Bough, The Golden Bough - References in popular culture

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Nostradamus claimed to base his predictions on judicial astrology – basically, the assessment of the 'astrological quality' of expected future events – but was heavily criticised by the professional astrologers for assuming that, thanks to what might be termed 'comparative horoscopy' (comparison of future planetary configurations with the astrology of known past events), it could predict the actual events themselves. Recent research has indeed shown that most of his prophetic work was based on paraphrasing collections of ancient e ...

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Nostradamus, Nostradamus - Biography, Nostradamus - Preparation and methods of prophecy, Nostradamus - His works, Nostradamus - Skepticism, Nostradamus - Misquotes and hoaxes, Nostradamus - Nostradamus in popular culture, Nostradamus - Television, Nostradamus - Film, Nostradamus - Music, Nostradamus - Comics, Nostradamus - Sources

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Nostradamus enthusiasts have credited him with predicting numerous events in world history, including the French Revolution, the atom bomb, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Indeed, they regularly make similar claims regarding each new world crisis as it comes along, for the most part shamelessly twisting either the words or the events to fit (see specific examples below). Nostradamus does not in fact mention any of the above specifically, not even Hitler: the name Hister, as he himself e ...

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Nostradamus, Nostradamus - Biography, Nostradamus - Preparation and methods of prophecy, Nostradamus - His works, Nostradamus - Skepticism, Nostradamus - Misquotes and hoaxes, Nostradamus - Nostradamus in popular culture, Nostradamus - Television, Nostradamus - Film, Nostradamus - Music, Nostradamus - Comics, Nostradamus - Sources

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Nostradamus - Television. The television series Alias prominently features the character Milo Rambaldi, a fictional Nostradamus-like prophet. In the science fiction series First Wave, the protagonists use the quatrains of Nostradamus to fight back against an alien invasion. Nostradamus has also been parodied on Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show a ...

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Nostradamus, Nostradamus - Biography, Nostradamus - Preparation and methods of prophecy, Nostradamus - His works, Nostradamus - Skepticism, Nostradamus - Misquotes and hoaxes, Nostradamus - Nostradamus in popular culture, Nostradamus - Television, Nostradamus - Film, Nostradamus - Music, Nostradamus - Comics, Nostradamus - Sources

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Trojan War - Armies on the Greek side Achaeans. See Catalogue of Ships Abantes Arcadia Aetolia Athens and Salamis Argos and Tiryns Boebeans (Thessaly) Boeotia Crete Dulichium Elis Elone (Thessaly) Enienes Iolcus (Thessaly) Ithaca Locris Magnesia Meliboea Minyans Mycenae and Corinth Myrmidones of Argos Oechalia Ormenius Pherae Phylacia Phocia Pylos Rhodes See also:

Trojan War, Trojan War - Background, Trojan War - Peleus and Thetis the apple and the judgment, Trojan War - The elopement of Helen, Trojan War - The marshalling of the forces, Trojan War - The War, Trojan War - Telephus, Trojan War - Philoctetes, Trojan War - Arrival, Trojan War - The death of Achilles, Trojan War - Achilles' armour/death of Ajax, Trojan War - Diomedes, Trojan War - The Trojan Horse, Trojan War - The aftermath, Trojan War - The Trojan War in art, Trojan War - Participants, Trojan War - Armies on the Greek side Achaeans, Trojan War - Armies on the Trojan side, Trojan War - Participants on the Greek side, Trojan War - Participants on the Trojan side, Trojan War - Participant/killer, Trojan War - Unknown side, Trojan War - Cultural References, Trojan War - In film

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The Mother Goddess as worshiped in Phrygia was Cybele. In her typical Phrygian form she wears a long belted dress, a polos, or high cylindrical headdress and a veil covering the whole body. The later version of Cybele was established by Pheidias' pupil, the sculptor Agoracritos, and became the image most widely adopted by Cybele's expanding following, both in the Aegean world and at Rome, It shows her humanized though still enthroned, her hand resting on an attendant lion and the other holding the tambouri ...

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Phrygia, Phrygia - Geography, Phrygia - Culture, Phrygia - History, Phrygia - Bronze Age migrations, Phrygia - Mythic Past, Phrygia - Golden Age of Midas, Phrygia - Cimmerian invasion, Phrygia - Croesus' Lydian Empire, Phrygia - Persian Empire, Phrygia - Alexander and the Successors, Phrygia - Rome

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Skeptics of Nostradamus state that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who shoehorn his words into events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process known as as "retroactive clairvoyance". It has been stated, probably correctly, that no Nostradamus quatrain has ever been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred, beyond a very general level (e.g., a fire will occur, a war will start). A good demonstration of this flexible predicting is to take lyrics written by modern songwriters (e.g., Bob Dylan) a ...

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Nostradamus, Nostradamus - Biography, Nostradamus - Preparation and methods of prophecy, Nostradamus - His works, Nostradamus - Skepticism, Nostradamus - Misquotes and hoaxes, Nostradamus - Nostradamus in popular culture, Nostradamus - Television, Nostradamus - Film, Nostradamus - Music, Nostradamus - Comics, Nostradamus - Sources

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The Prophecies - In this book he collected his major, long-term divinations. The first edition was published in 1555. The second, with 289 further prophetic verses, was printed in 1557. The third edition, with three hundred new quatrains, was reportedly printed in 1558, but nowadays only survives as part of the omnibus edition that was published after his death in 1568. Thanks to printing practices at the time, no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find ...

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Nostradamus, Nostradamus - Biography, Nostradamus - Preparation and methods of prophecy, Nostradamus - His works, Nostradamus - Skepticism, Nostradamus - Misquotes and hoaxes, Nostradamus - Nostradamus in popular culture, Nostradamus - Television, Nostradamus - Film, Nostradamus - Music, Nostradamus - Comics, Nostradamus - Sources

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Trojan War - Telephus. When the Greeks left for the war, they accidentally stopped in Mysia, ruled by King Telephus. In the battle, Achilles wounded Telephus, who killed Thersander. The wound would not heal and Telephus asked an oracle who claimed "he that wounded shall heal". Telephus went to Aulis, and either pretended to be a beggar, asking Achilles to help heal his wound, or kidnapped Orestes and held him for ransom, demanding the wound be healed. Achilles refused, claiming to have no medical knowledge ...

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Trojan War, Trojan War - Background, Trojan War - Peleus and Thetis the apple and the judgment, Trojan War - The elopement of Helen, Trojan War - The marshalling of the forces, Trojan War - The War, Trojan War - Telephus, Trojan War - Philoctetes, Trojan War - Arrival, Trojan War - The death of Achilles, Trojan War - Achilles' armour/death of Ajax, Trojan War - Diomedes, Trojan War - The Trojan Horse, Trojan War - The aftermath, Trojan War - The Trojan War in art, Trojan War - Participants, Trojan War - Armies on the Greek side Achaeans, Trojan War - Armies on the Trojan side, Trojan War - Participants on the Greek side, Trojan War - Participants on the Trojan side, Trojan War - Participant/killer, Trojan War - Unknown side, Trojan War - Cultural References, Trojan War - In film

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Born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in the south of France in December 1503, Michel de Nostredame was the son of a grain dealer who was also a prosperous home-grown notary. His family was originally Jewish, but had converted to Catholicism during the previous century along with thousands of others, due to increasing official French persecution of Jews, many of whom were the descendants of former refugees from Spain, where they were known as the Marranos. The names of Nostredame's known forebears seem to reflect this. While practice of the ...

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Nostradamus, Nostradamus - Biography, Nostradamus - Preparation and methods of prophecy, Nostradamus - His works, Nostradamus - Skepticism, Nostradamus - Misquotes and hoaxes, Nostradamus - Nostradamus in popular culture, Nostradamus - Television, Nostradamus - Film, Nostradamus - Music, Nostradamus - Comics, Nostradamus - Sources

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