Among the Plains Indians of North America, individuals had to discover their spirit animal through a mystical experience called a vision quest. Some Native American religions in Central America include nagualism, the idea that each person's life is linked to an animal or object called a nagual ...
Abraxas is a mystical word composed of Greek letters. It was believed to have magical powers and was often inscribed on amulets and charms. Around the second century AD, early Gnostics (ancient Greek religious thinkers) used the word to describe their god. Abraxas is described as a talisman w...
(Maternal grandparents’ names are given for second boys and girls). At this point, the priest baptizes the child by completely immersing it in the font three times, invoking the names of the Trinity. Complete immersion symbolizes the burial and mystical resurrection of Christ....
During the last period of Plato’s life his philosophy drew closer to the mystical mathematics of the Pythagoreans. After his death this trend was continued in Plato’s Academy by his closest followers, including Speusippus and Xenocrates. Aristotle, a student of Plato’s, founded his own ...
"That Apollon is the same as the sun and that one god is furnished with two names is made clear to us by the mystical words spoken in the secret initiation rites and by the popular refrain which can be heard everywhere : The sun is Apollon and Apollon is the sun." ...
Poetic inspiration must be an eventuation of truth in the work; as distinguished from mystical inspiration, it seeks embodiment and mediation. In other terms, for there to be an artwork both the vertical dimension and the horizontal dimension of craft must intersect. The eventuation of truth in...
completeness or divine perfection. This symbolism is rooted in the creation narrative, where God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. In the Greco-Roman world, numbers were also significant in various philosophical and religious systems, often carrying mystical or symbolic ...
HELPS Word-studies 4954 sýssōmos (an adjective, derived from 4862 /sýn, "closely identified with" and 4983 /sṓma, "body") – properly, united, belonging to the same body; a "joint-body," referring to "the mystical body of Christ, composed of all saved believers (OT and NT)...
2. The myths deal with ___.A. the creation of the gods and the world B. the struggle among the gods for supremacy and the triumph of Zeus C. the love affairs and quarrels of the gods D. the effects of their adventures and powers on the mortal world E. all of the above 3. __...
According to legend, the angel Gabriel guided Muhammad, who rode a winged horse called Buraq or Borak, on a mystical journey through heaven, where he met the other prophets. Similarly, historical figures who founded mystical Islamic brotherhoods came to be associated with stories of miracles, ...