A Wisdom Archive on Tradition

The bird-scaring rattle is most frequently heard in Eastern Slovenia: Slovenske gorice, Haloze and Prlekija (of which it is a symbol), less frequently in Lower Carniola and White Carniola. It can also be found in Southwestern Slovenia, in the Littoral Region, but it's much rarer there. In Austria it can be found in Styria, while in Croatia in Zagorje. These areas traditionally produce white wines. Two famous Slovenian white blends that are produced here are called Ljutomerčan (in German: Luttenberger) named after the city of L ...

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In Swedish tradition many holidays have their main celebrations not on the Day but on the Eve of the holiday, meaning one day earlier. This is especially significant on Christmas Eve and Midsummer Eve, but also on New Year's Eve, however in this case not really unique. Christmas Eve, Midsummer Eve and New Year's Eve might very well be the single most important holidays during the entire year for Swedes. These days are however not official holidays but half-days, and de facto full holidays. Most emplyoers provide for the ...

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Popular myth traces the origin of the Russian flag to Tsar Peter the Great's visit to the Netherlands in 1699. The tsar, who went there to learn about shipbuilding, realised the need for Russia to have a flag for its navy too. He based Russia's flag on the flag of the Netherlands, making it a tricolour with three equal horizontal fields, but he chose Russian colors for it (the flag of the Netherlands at that ti ...

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The Gospel of Mark is traditionally the second of the New Testament Gospels. It narrates the life of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to his resurrection, but it concentrates particularly on the last week of his life. Usually dated around AD 65-80, it is regarded by most modern scholars as the earliest of the canonical gospels, contrary to the traditional view of the Augustinian hypothesis. Gospel of Mark - Authorship and Provenance. The gospel itself is anonymous, but as early as Papias in the ea ... Including:

• Gospel of Mark - Authorship and Provenance
• Gospel of Mark - Date
• Gospel of Mark - Audience
• Gospel of Mark - Sources: Mark and Midrash
• Gospel of Mark - Sources: Mark's disputed relation with Q Gospel
• Gospel of Mark - Characteristics
• Gospel of Mark - Other characteristics unique to Mark
• Gospel of Mark - Markan priority among the Synoptic gospels
• Gospel of Mark - The little Apocalypse of Mark 13
• Gospel of Mark - Losses and early editing
• Gospel of Mark - Ending
• Gospel of Mark - Chapters
• Gospel of Mark - References and further reading

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A superstition is an irrational or invalid belief about the relation between certain actions (often behaviors) and other actions that is not true, such as fear of the number 13. The essence of superstition is not defined by the "truth" of the result, however, but recognized by the methods through which truth is searched for. The superstitious individual erroneously believes that the future, or the outcome of certain events can be caused or influenced by certain specified behaviors, despite the lack of a causal relationship in r ... Including:

• Superstition - Books
• Superstition - Source

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Books written by René Guénon (ordered chronologically according to their first publication date): Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines (Introduction générale à l'étude des doctrines hindoues, 1921) Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion (Le Théosophisme - Histoire d'une pseudo-religion, 1921) The Spiritist Fallacy (L'erreur spirite, 1923) East and West (Orient et Occident, 1924) Man and His Becoming according to the ...

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Unlike both Matthew and Luke, Mark does not offer any information about the life of Jesus before he begins his ministry: there is no nativity in Mark, as in Matthew (1:18-2:12) and Luke (2:1-20), nothing about John the Baptist's birth (as in Luke 1), no massacre of the infants (Matthew 2:16), and no childhood tales (Luke 2:41-52). Neither is there a genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:1-17 or, differently, Luke 3:23-38). The detailed narrative concentrates on the miracle stories, omitted by the later synoptics, show us otherwise (compare e.g. Mark 1:19 ...

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Mark is the shortest gospel. Manuscripts, both scrolls and codices, tend to lose text at the beginning and the end, not unlike a coverless paperback in a backpack. These losses are characteristically unconnected with excisions. For instance, Mark 1:1 has been found in two different forms. Half of the discovered texts before the 2nd century contain the phrase "Son of God", while half do not. (NB: The article "the" is not present in Greek MSS; it was instead added to English translations for flow and compatibility with Church doctrine. "A Son of God" would also be a correc ...

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Exegesis is often made to show correspondences with the calamities of the First Jewish Revolt of AD 66–70. Jesus' remarks in 13:1–2, seen as a reference to the destruction of the Temple, would place the work after AD 70. The passage predicts that the Temple would be torn down completely—"Not one stone will be left upon another." Indeed, the Temple was completely destroyed by the forces of the Roman general Titus (Josephus, Jewish War VI). (The Western Wall, which still stands, was not a part of the Temple proper, but rather part ...

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