In Greece, it is a New Year's tradition to serve Basil's Bread. Japanese people often begin by cleaning their houses in late December. Some people hang long ropes across the front of their homes. New Year's greeting cards are another popular tradition. ...
(now functioned primarily as a major part of a cultural tradition whose importance increased as Greek independence diminished.)随着各种城市失去他们的政治重要意义,他们神话的往事仍然可以作为一种特性(identity)来装饰自己,并帮助自己与其它城市区分。总之,神话对于希腊人在他们历史上不同的舞台上意味颇为不同。
In the pagan perspective, it represents the maiden/mother/crone. In the Christian tradition, it represents the father/son/holy spirit. Others believe it represents birth/life/death and or earth/air/water. Is the triquetra a Catholic symbol? The triquetra symbol is not inherently Catholic, but ...
Sometimes, the message a writer wants to convey is dangerous to talk about explicitly. In these cases, allegory creates distance between the writer and the message. One famous example of this is George Orwell’s 1945 novelAnimal Farm. Orwell used a story line about farm animals to express his...
Some people will say, "I don’t believe in the God of the Bible, but perhaps there is something else"—A First Cause, A Higher Power, A Supreme Being, or maybe something like “The Force” from Star Wars. What if there is something that we cannot even conceive of or even have a ...
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While the tradition of an engagement party may have originated in its initial and unconventional form in Greece, engagement parties have been held worldwide for thousands of years. From Scotland to India to Africa, the idea of families and friends coming together to celebrate a happy couple start...
The Crown of Louis XV is a magnificent piece of French Royal jewelry. It was a tradition of French Kings to have their personal crowns made for their coronation and Louis XV commissioned two of them. The one is Louvre is made of Gilded silver and includes motifs of the fleur-de-lis the...
An oral tradition is the vehicle by which information is passed from one generation to the next in the absence of writing or a recording medium. In the days before near-universal literacy, bards would sing or chant their people's stories. They employed various (mnemonic) techniques to aid bo...
Medieval Christian maps had east at the top, as they believed the Garden of Eden was in the east. The only early maps that had north at the top were those of early China because the emperor lived in the north.(古埃及地图的顶部是南,因为尼罗河从南部的山脉流向北部的地中海。麦加位于大多数...