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- fetches soma, the intoxicating ritual elixir, from either a crag in a ... that Garuda would have to bring them the elixir of immortality, also called ...14 KB (2,324 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- approach to cultivating the “golden elixir” (jin-dan, the elixir of ... the founder of the School of the Golden Elixir of Life (Jin Dan Jiao), and ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- milk ocean in hopes of mixing together the elixir of immortality. The naga ... suggested that he bring them amrita, the elixir of immortality which was ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- of Taoist alchemical efforts to develop an elixir of immortality. ... True Origin of Things" warns of one elixir, "Some have heated together ...14 KB (2,154 words) - 14:28, 8 February 2022
- flaws from precious stones and created an elixir that prevented aging. He ... an alchemist who had discovered the "Elixir of Life", and a prophet ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 08:29, 10 January 2024
- An immortal admired Yi and sent him the elixir of immortality. Yi did not ... live long without death, he asked for the elixir from Xiwangmu. But his wife ...32 KB (4,726 words) - 17:31, 9 November 2022
- * Summer, Lisa. Music: The New Age Elixir. Prometheus Books: November 1996. ISBN 1-573-92104-1 *Werkhoven, Henk N. The International Guide to ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
- alchemy (waidan), whose goal was finding an elixir of eternal life (Kohn, 85-86). See also J. C. Cooper's Chinese Alchemy: The Taoist Quest for ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 09:15, 20 January 2024
- (kapala) filled with menstrual blood or the elixir of life in one hand, and a curved knife (kartika) in the other. She may wear a garland of human ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- Li Hongzhi states that he installs a falun in the elixir field of the lower abdomen (dantian) of practioners. Falun Gong practitioners believe ...14 KB (2,259 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- *"alchemist; one who seeks the elixir of life; one who practices ... of these five mythical peaks where the elixir of life supposedly grew, ...38 KB (6,009 words) - 14:30, 20 May 2023
- a quart of cider daily, group two 25 drops of elixir of vitriol (sulfuric acid), group three six spoonful of vinegar, group four half a pint of seawater ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 21:20, 20 March 2024
- the manufacture of the "golden elixir" or jin dan, which he ... to embody this ideal, as his quest for the elixir of immortality did not subordinate ...30 KB (4,865 words) - 06:29, 18 April 2024
- the search for al-iksir, the elusive elixir that would make this transformation possible—which in European alchemy became known as the philosopher ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- Apples; and the apples should be called Age-Elixir of the Aesir. Idunn is also called Spoil of the Giant Thjazi, according to the tale that has been ...15 KB (2,466 words) - 15:58, 12 February 2024
- Madame Dubarry, The Countess Dubarry, or The Elixir of Life) **The Queen's Necklace (1849–1850) **Ange Pitou (1853) (a.k.a. "Storming ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- wanted a teacher to "open the gate of the elixir or universal compassion to liberate all beings." Bodhidharma again refused, saying, “how ...17 KB (2,535 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- Cosmetic Act was passed following the 1937 "Elixir Sulfanilamide" incident of poisoning caused by diethylene glycol contamination of medicine. ...17 KB (2,494 words) - 18:22, 30 August 2021
- "No, I have a talisman which is called the elixir of immortality (sonyak) and is shaped like the Great Ultimate (t'aeguk) and also like the ...18 KB (2,900 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- giving substance. He correctly equated this "elixir of life" with the gas given off by heating niter (or saltpeter, the mineral form of potassium ...23 KB (3,469 words) - 06:02, 18 November 2022
