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4 godz. temu · Etymology. The name Zoroaster (Ζωροάστηρ) is a Greek rendering of the Avestan name Zarathustra.He is known as Zartosht and Zardosht in Persian and Zaratosht in Gujarati. The Zoroastrian name of the religion is Mazdayasna, which combines Mazda-with the Avestan word yasna, meaning "worship, devotion". In English, an adherent of the faith is commonly called a Zoroastrian or a Zarathustrian.
1 dzień temu · If Tecacahuaco was an occupied settlement at this time, it would have been ruled by the Metztitlan lordship, an independent political entity that managed to survive even after the emergence of the Aztec Empire in central Mexico in the second half of the Post-Classic period. The fact that the circular structure was recognized as a sacred site in modern times implies it was seen that way in the ...
1 dzień temu · Heraclitus (/ ˌ h ɛr ə ˈ k l aɪ t ə s /; Greek: Ἡράκλειτος Herákleitos; fl. c. 500 BC) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire.He exerts a wide influence on ancient and modern Western philosophy, including through the works of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger. ...
4 godz. temu · No concept is at once more embattled and misunderstood, and yet more central to the history of religion in America, as liberalism. Describing related political and religious orientations, liberalism emerged from the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, the Enlightenment critiques of religion, and the English, American, and French revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries.
1 dzień temu · The Antichrist (the figure on the left, with the attributes of a king) by Herrad of Landsberg (about 1180), from the 12th-century Hortus deliciarum The Devil whispers to the Antichrist; detail from Sermons and Deeds of the Antichrist, Luca Signorelli, 1501, Orvieto Cathedral.. In Christian eschatology, Antichrist refers to a kind of person prophesied by the Bible to oppose Jesus Christ and ...
4 godz. temu · Summary. The term tantra and the tantric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism have been subjected to a great deal of misunderstanding in both India and the West. There is a diverse range of attitudes toward the tantric traditions, ranging from their emic understandings as paths to liberation to the relatively widespread associations of the tantric traditions with sorcery and libertine sexuality.
4 godz. temu · The First Modern Uyghurs and Their Predecessors in the Early 20th Century. At the turn of the 20th century, the settled Turkic Muslims of Altishahr (the Tarim Basin, southern Xinjiang) already viewed themselves as a distinctive if vaguely bounded group, which they described variously as Musulman (Muslim), yerlik (local), Turki, or, rarely, Altishahrlik or Altishahri. 3 The Uyghur identity that ...
