We also saw two or three contemporary altars where Mayan descendants are permitted to enact occasional ceremonies; that would be something to see, but no gringos are permitted. Communing with the gods at Yaxha. Too bad there wasn’t a zipline down. NAKUN & TOPOXTE There is a reason so ...
They will force you out of your own country. And your best friends will trick and trap you, even before you know it. 8Edom, when this happens, I, the Lord, will destroy all your marvelous wisdom. 9Warriors from the city of Teman will be terrified, and you descendants of Esau will ...
Charles Monteith did not have a Kindle he could switch to; he did not have email to catch up on. He could neither take to Twitter to opine upon the unwarranted delays on the Oxford line, nor Instagram the surrounding wheatfields. He read on.There was nothing else to do. He read on p...
7 Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend? 8 They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your Name, saying, 9 ‘If ...
especially in their conservative ideas about political issues such as abortion, marriage and prayer in schools,” evangelicals and Pentecostals are “historically distinct — until the mid-20th century, Pentecostals and their Charismatic descendants weren’t routinely grouped with their evangelical counterpa...
8 “After Jacob [C the Israelites]·entered [went to; arrived in] Egypt, ·his descendants [they] cried to the Lord for help. So the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who took your ·ancestors [fathers] out of Egypt and ·brought them to live [settled them] in this place. 9 “But th...
I always find this interesting in light of the fact that these men and their descendants were treated as foreigners and enemies in the next war and interned in prison camps. But that’s another post. It’s interesting to note, however, that in 1916 volunteers were not accepted in British ...
5Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their fellow Israelites—even though they also are descended from Abraham. 6This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi, yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and...
Weddings are expensive.They will cost you.I know this because my middle daughter, Kylee, the princess of the two beautiful female descendants of mine, is soon to be married. This means many things. The first, according to the goose (AKA Eric, my husband and father of the bride”, would...
closely-knit population is largely decimated (whether by war, government, or natural disaster) and then is reconstructed from just a relatively few individuals. These bottlenecks serve to consolidate the gene pool, creating clusters of similar genetic markers among descendants of these bottleneck...