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  • Oracle bone script ( c=甲骨文|p=jiǎgǔwén|l=shell bone writing ) refers to incised (or, rarely, brush-written) ancient Chinese characters ...
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  • Oracle bone script ( c=甲骨文|p=jiǎgǔwén|l=shell bone writing ) refers to incised (or, rarely, brush-written) ancient Chinese characters ...
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  • became famous as the original source of oracle bones and oracle bone script ... Yinxu won renown for the oracle bones, discovered in 1899 by Wang ...
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  • The Pythia (Gr. Πύθια) was the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. The Pythia ...
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  • referred him to the divinely inspired Delphic oracle. Xenophon's query to the oracle, however, was not whether or not to accept Cyrus' invitation ...
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  • ancient Greece, renowned for its Delphic oracle (the most famous oracle ... on his back. The Homeric name of the oracle is Pytho (Πυθώ). ...
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  • following the command of the Delphic oracle. Archilochus himself, hard ... Calondas or Corax, who was cursed by the oracle for having slain a servant ...
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  • posts. He studied the inscriptions on the oracle bones and tortoise shells ... preserve Chinese antiques, especially the oracle bones, bamboo and wooden ...
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  • born giants threatened Olympus and the Oracle at Delphi decreed that only ... Although most oracle sites were usually dedicated to Apollo, the heroes ...
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  • as Thucydides, states that the Delphic oracle warned Hesiod that he would ... where, following the advice of an oracle, they collected the ashes ...
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  • Minos, after receiving advice from the Oracle at Delphi, had Daedalus construct a gigantic labyrinth to hold the Minotaur. Its location was ...
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  • in an effort to circumvent the oracle's prophecy that he would ... prophecy, Oedipus and Jocasta discuss the oracle, dismissing it as its prophecies ...
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  • as it was home of the powerful Long Juju oracle, the Aro King, Chiefs, and ... outcast. The priests of the Ibini Ukpabi oracle (also known as the Long Juju ...
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  • one of the Queens changing the message from the oracle to the Ogiso. Ekaladerhan was a powerful warrior and well loved Prince. On leaving Benin he travelled ...
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  • Bethel (בית אל, "House of God")—also written as Beth El or Beth-El—was an ancient Israelite town, located about ten miles ...
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  • based on religious affiliation. Some oracle practices are done only by ... The most common oracle procedure in Santeria is the casting of coconuts ...
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  • The earliest references to Shangdi are found in Oracle Bone inscriptions ... Robert Eno, "Early Oracle Inscriptions" in Donald S. Lopez ...
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  • manual y arte de prudencia (literally The Oracle, a Manual of the Art of Discretion ... Wisdom (by Joseph Jacobs, 1892), The Oracle, a Manual of the Art of Discretion ...
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  • The Pythia was the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at ... operation. During this period the Delphic Oracle was the most prestigious ...
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  • database, and supports the use of PostgreSQL and Oracle. It makes its holdings available primarily via a web interface, but it also supports the OAI-PMH ...
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  • deities and the patron of the ancient Oracle at Delphi, Apollo was considered ... for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus. ...
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