(Austro-Hungarian physician), Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Subcommandante Marcos (of the Chiapas Indian struggle with the Mexican government), Mohammed Ali, Archbishop Tutu, Walter Cronkite, Kenyan Pulitzer Prize winner Wangari Maathai, Indian ecofeminist Vandana Shiva, Elizabeth Taylor, Doris Day, ...
The Glaswegian saint’s legend mentions him sojourning in North Wales with Asaph during his spiritual questing in ‘Yr Hen Ogledd’ (‘The Old North’ Celtic polity of sub-Roman Britain during the early Anglo-Saxon pagan era): Northwest Britain, Southwest Scotland and North Wales were once par...
A model trading in illusions of heightened female subservience that remain essentially taken for granted to this day, Leonora is essentially stuck between two modes of prostitution: literally posing at the department store that pays her practically nothing, or figuratively posing at Smith’s mansion...
3. idol, favourite, pin-up (slang), fave (informal) I still remember my boyhood heroes. Quotations"See, the conquering hero comes!""Sound the trumpets, beat the drums!" [Thomas Morell Judas Maccabeus]"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to...
Both states were seen as essential to create the balance of our ‘middle’ earth (i.e. – the ‘elemental’ or ‘sub-lunary’ world). In the light of this interpretation, it is better to think of the Greco-Roman conception of the dead occupying the ‘lower’ world for the initial par...
eídōlon, (“image; “idol”), from eîdos, (“form”)] Illuminati: those who claim to have exceptional intellectual or spiritual awareness (orig. a Bavarian secret society founded in 1776) [L. illuminatus (“enlightened”)] Illuminati Indocible: unteachable [in- + LateLat. -docibilis ...
- First, Sanmayce is a callname of mine since 1994, the bearer (in fact a bearer) of that name was a Chinese underdog - my topmost idol, aye-aye.- Second, Sanmace/Trimace means (presumably) three maces/scepters suggesting one having a triple-power (or one triply powered).Heritage...
In order to concretize the concept, it was divided into five sub-categories: the educational, the political, the vocational, the practical, and the spiritual. As for the educational, the Klan considered it as essential to every citizen of the Invisible Empire in their aptitude to pursue their...
Part two is the “eye-opening and dotting” (kaiguang dianyan, 開光點眼) ceremony, which brings the idol to life. Again, I refer to Lin (2020): For this ceremony, the carver prepares flowers, fruit, a round mirror, a red brush pen, and a white cock. When the auspicious moment arr...
idol Gürtel: 1. belt, girdle Güte: 1. goodness | 2. property, quality Güter: 1. goods Haag: 1. The Hague Haar: 1. hair | 2. hair, hairs Haare: 1. hair, hairs Habicht: 1. hawk Habitus: 1. exterior Habsucht: 1. avidity, covetousness, eagerness, greediness Hacke: 1. axe |...