The argument between two townsmen about a horse and a mule becomes an argument about a he-goat (bok) and a she-goat (tsig).
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And in the teachings of Islam, it is clearly written: You must give alms to the poor, perform the hajj and slaughter a he-goat.
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693\. Unlucky Wolf, Fox and Mule (written on hoof) 694\. Little Boar 695\. He-Goat and Wolf 696\. Wolf and Ass 697\.
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It is said that the word “akelarre” comes from the field next to one of the small Zugarramurdi caves, where the witch meetings used to take place. The Basque word akelarre means “the field of the he-goat”, as well as 'witches sabbath'. Those present in the meetings used to call the caves from this field, because in it, a big black he-goat used to graze (called Akerbeltz in Basque). It is said the he-goat turned into a human when the witches gathered, so it is thought the goat was the devil itself. This is why Zugarramurdi is often called “The Cathedral of the Devil”.
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Stuart asserted, "Tekke means wild goat. The word Tekke also is applied to the old he-goat that leads a flock of goats." The modern definition of the word is "billy goat".
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In chapter 8 Daniel sees a ram with two horns destroyed by a he-goat with a single horn; the horn breaks and four horns appear, followed once again by the "little horn".
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Pausanias, an Athenian character from Plato's Symposium wittily remarked, "The meaning of the tortoise and of the he-goat I leave to those who care to guess,"Andrea Alciato, Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584). slyly implying the sensual nature of Aphrodite's representation.
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Mari is often witnessed as a woman dressed in red. She is also seen as a woman of fire, woman-tree and as thunderbolt. Additionally, she is identified with red animals (cow, ram, horse), and with the black he-goat.
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With a 1993 Der Spiegel essay, "Anschwellender Bocksgesang" ("Swelling He-Goat Song""He-goat song" is the translation of the Greek "τραγῳδία" ("tragedy")), a critical examination of modern civilisation, he triggered a major political controversy as his conservative politics was anathema to many. In his theoretical work, Strauß showed the influence of the ancient classics, Nietzsche, Heidegger as well as Adorno, but his outlook was also radically anti-bourgeois. His work as a writer has been recognized with numerous international awards and his dramas are among the most performed in German- language theatres. Strauß presently lives in Berlin as well as in the nearby Uckermark region.
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Sri Taraprassana Adhikari, 2. Kaliprassana Adhikari and now, the 7th generation personality Sri Sonatan Adhikari and Gopal Adhikari are the priests of this Temple. Long ago scarifies of humans to the altar of the Temple were in vogue. But at present he-goat, sugarcane, gourd, etc.
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The "Cave of the Witches" near Akelarre in Zugarramurdi. It was reported that the witches of Zugarramurdi met at the meadow of Akelarre (Basque for "meadow of the he-goat"). Even today aquelarreAquelarre in the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española. is the Spanish word for a black sabbath.
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Jerome believed that Cyrus of Persia is the higher of the two horns of the Medo-Persian ram of Daniel 8:3. The he-goat is Greece smiting Persia. Alexander is the great horn, which is then succeeded by Alexander's half brother Philip and three of his generals.
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The name of the animal was imported into English in the 18th century from isiXhosa iqhude, via Afrikaans koedoe part zebra part deer. Kudu, or koodoo, is the Khoikhoi and seTswana name for this antelope. Tragos (Greek) denotes a he-goat and elaphos (Greek) a deer. Strepho (Greek) means "I twist", and strephis is "twisting".
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He looks about forty. He wears a brownish vest with sleeves, a dark blue cloak embroidered with gold lace, and a light blue cap. A curtain hangs over the window-sill, partly covering the well-known relief by Duquesnoy of children playing with a he- goat, which is underneath the window. In the foreground is a pot of marigolds.
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The Haferbock ("oat buck") or Erntebock ("harvest buck")Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie, p. 1209. is a he-goat spirit. This Feldgeist is also known as Austbock ("harvest buck"), Halmbock ("haulm buck"), Erbsenbock ("pea buck"), Kornbock ("corn buck"), Roggenbock ("rye buck"), Arftenbuck ("pea buck"), Bohnenbock ("bean buck"),Mannhardt, Wald- und Feldkulte: Band II, p. 157. NickelbockMannhardt, Wald- und Feldkulte: Band II, p. 158.
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In Greek mythology, Nana () was a daughter of the Phrygian river-god Sangarius, identified with the river Sakarya located in present-day Turkey. She became pregnant when an almond from an almond tree fell on her lap. The almond tree had sprung from the spot where the hermaphroditic Agdistis was castrated, becoming Cybele, the Mother of the Gods. Nana abandoned the baby boy, who was tended by a he-goat.
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Hughes, 16 The title El Gran Cabrón (The Great He-Goat) was given by painter Antonio Brugada (1804–1863).Junquera, 66 The Basque term for a Witches' Sabbath, akelarre, is the source of the Spanish title Aquelarre and a derivation of akerra, the Basque word for a male goat, which may have been combined with the word larre ("field") to arrive at akelarre.Boime, 261 Quinta del Sordo, photographed c.
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Saturn Devouring His Son (detail), possibly the most famous of the Black Paintings Exposition Universelle (1878). Paris. On the left: Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat). The Black Paintings (Spanish: Pinturas negras) is the name given to a group of fourteen paintings by Francisco Goya from the later years of his life, likely between 1819 and 1823. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity.
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The etymology of the name derives from the Old English words of bucca and denu meaning he-goat and valley respectively. A bridge at Buckden was destroyed in a flood in 1748. A later and present bridge is known as 'Election Bridge', as a prospective MP made the promise of a replacement bridge an electoral pledge. On 5 July 2014, the Tour de France Stage 1 from Leeds to Harrogate passed through the village.
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Another fair is held in this area in Ekadashi, Shivaratri, Chaturdashi, Rama Navami and many other festivals. If any misfortune activities are seen then people come here to do bhajan , puja, aarti , yagya and hawan and many other religious activities. People come here to pray to god to fulfill their wishes and they achieve it they sacrifice pigeon, he-goat etc. people even present khir, laddu, peda , paan, supari and much more.
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He reduced the time, times, and half a time to one and one-half times, in order to fit the ten and a half years of Antiochus' persecution of the Jews. Aphrahat also mentioned the Persian ram and the Grecian he-goat of Daniel 8. In Demonstrations 8, Aphrahat stated that the Kingdom of Christ would not be established until the Second Advent at which time there would occur a literal resurrection of the righteous dead.
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Pausanias, Periegesis vi.25.1; Aphrodite Pandemos was represented in the same temple riding on a goat, symbol of purely carnal rut: "The meaning of the tortoise and of the he-goat I leave to those who care to guess," Pausanias remarks. The image was taken up again after the Renaissance: see Andrea Alciato, Emblemata / Les emblemes (1584). One of Aphrodite's most common literary epithets is Philommeidḗs (), which means "smile-loving", but is sometimes mistranslated as "laughter-loving".
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Buxtorf was born at Kamen in Westphalia. The original form of the name was Bockstrop, or Boxtrop, from which was derived the family crest, which bore the figure of a goat (Ger. Bock, he-goat). After the death of his father, who was minister of Kamen, Buxtorf studied at Marburg and the newly founded Herborn Academy, at the latter of which Caspar Olevian (1536–1587) and Johannes Piscator (1546–1625) had been appointed professors of theology.
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In the sixth reading (, aliyah), when the Israelites ate bread of the land, they were to set aside a portion, a dough offering (, challah), as a gift to God. If the community unwittingly failed to observe any commandment, the community was to present one bull as a burnt offering with its proper meal offering and wine, and one he-goat as a sin offering, and the priest would make expiation for the whole community and they would be forgiven.
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Ijoku means the washing of the early morning hands. Which is to say that it was the first step leading to Oba title.This stage involves 300 tubers of yam (ji ommi) presented in October with 200 pieces of kolanut, tobacco, wine, money and a she goat (Ewu Ijoku). 2\. Ekwu Title:- This is the second stage, it costs 209 tubers of yam, 500 kolanuts, wine, money a he goat (Nkpi ekwu), and smoked fishes (Ukpobu). 3\.
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The word "aquelarre" is first attested in 1609 in a Spanish language inquisitorial briefing, as synonym to junta diabólica, meaning 'diabolic assembly'. Basque terms, transcribed into Spanish texts often by monolingual Spanish language copyists, were fraught with mistakes. Nevertheless, the black he-Goat or Akerbeltz is known in Basque mythology to be an attribute of goddess Mari and is found in a Roman age slab as a votive dedication: Aherbelts Deo ("to the god Aherbelts") (see: Aquitanian language)..
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An old Yoruba proverb says "unless the he-goat dies, no one can make a gbedu drum from its skin". The implication is that a person will be able to look out for their own interests while they are alive. Another proverb says "the hide of a pig cannot be used to make a gbedu drum", meaning that a given material cannot be used for all purposes. "No thief steals a gbedu drum" is a warning not to attempt the impossible.
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In many works there are philosophical stories and moralizing lessons. Figures are simplified, flat and highly stylised. In the background of every painting is an original story derived from numerous popular legends and beliefs – pagan, Christian, mythological, historical or contemporary. The myths with the pronounced respect for animals – primordial parents and beliefs on summing up people and animals are presented in his paintings by duplication and compaction of human and animal figure (fish, bird, horse, cow, snake, octopus, deer, bull, he-goat...), multiplication of heads and limbs.
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The location was defended from the blockhouse "He-goat", across the river in the Makiš forest. Under strong fire from the blockhouse, Austrians landed more to the north, in the area which Serbs didn't even defend because it was the plain marsh and it was thought that no one will land there. That way, Austrians successfully landed on the island without much resistance. Major Dobrivoje Mojsilović, acting commander of the Ada's defense, engaged the Austrians in an effort to force them to retreat across the river.
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Witches' Sabbath, 1821–1823. Oil on plaster wall, transferred to canvas; 140.5 × 435.7 cm (56 × 172 in). alt=In an array of earthen colours, a black silhouetted horned figure to the left foreground presides over and addresses a tightly packed group of wide-eyed, intense, scary, elderly and unruly women. Witches' Sabbath or The Great He-Goat (Spanish titles from, respectively, Hughes, 386 and Boime, 110) are names given to an oil mural by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, completed sometime between 1821 and 1823.
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In strict secrecy during the pre-dawn hours, animal sacrifice of a he-goat is offered in the temple, while fish from the sacred Markanda temple tank are cooked and offered to Vimala, as per Tantric rituals. The rituals have to be completed before the doors of the main sanctum of the vegetarian Jagannath are opened at dawn and the first morning aarti is offered to the god. Vaishnava devotees of Jagannath are debarred from the temple. Only a few who witness the ceremony are given the Bimala parusa (Vimala's cuisine) as prasad.
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The section west of Stora Nygatan was renamed Jochum Bryggares gränd ("Alley of Jochum Brewer") around 1700 after the German-born master brewer Jochum Ahlstedt (-1680). Archaeological excavations in the junction of Lilla Nygatan and Tyska Brinken in 1993, exposed the remains of an old city wall and traces of what was initially interpreted as a defensive tower from the 14th century known as Bocktornet ("Buck (He-goat) Tower"). Later investigations however, suggest that this is more likely to be the remains of structures from the defensive system constructed in the 1560s.
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One he-goat sufficed him for two meals…. These were the days of physical prowess, and only men possessed of indomitable will power could compete with ferocious Afghans on better footing. He was wheatish in colour, tall, fat, with a broad forehead, wide chest, loud and sonorous voice which could be clearly heard by an assemblage of 50,000 men….. The horses under him must have been the size of an elephant. This is why he could be clearly be seen by Qazi Nur Muhammad in a body of fifty or sixty thousand men.
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Oby Kechere is a Nigerian actress and film director.(12 August 2007) Showpiece, Daily Sun (Nigeria), Retrieved November 1, 2010 ("Actress and movie director Oby Kechere alias Ms KoiKoi") She comes from Mbaise in Imo State, Nigeria.(22 February 2009) Oby Kechere (Ms Koi-koi), Nigeria Daily News, Retrieved November 1, 2010 She has appeared in numerous Nollywood films to date, including "American Husband", "Beyond Death", "DR Thomas", "Ekete", "GSM Wahala", "He Goat", "My Time", "Ononikpo Aku", "Onye Obioma", "Safe-Journey", "Secrets Of The Heart", "This World Na Pawpaw", "True Vindication" and "Women Affair".
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Se’īrīm (Hebrew: , singular sa'ir) are a kind of demon. Sa’ir was the ordinary Hebrew word for "he-goat", and it is not always clear what the word's original meaning might have been. But in early Jewish thought, represented by targumim and possibly 3 Baruch, along with translations of the Hebrew Bible such as the Peshitta and Vulgate, the se’īrīm were understood as demons.Alexander Kulik, 'How the Devil Got His Hooves and Horns: The Origin of the Motif and the Implied Demonology of 3 Baruch', Numen, 60 (2013), 195–229 (p. 200) . (pp. 75–76).
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Aristotle's Tragic Plot Structure The word "tragedy" appears to have been used to describe different phenomena at different times. It derives from Classical Greek , contracted from trag(o)-aoidiā = "goat song", which comes from tragos = "he- goat" and aeidein = "to sing" (cf. "ode"). Scholars suspect this may be traced to a time when a goat was either the prizeSee Horace, Epistulae, II, 3, 220: "Carmino qui tragico vilem certavit ob hircum". in a competition of choral dancing or was what a chorus danced around prior to the animal's ritual sacrifice.
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James Stallybrass, Volume 2, London: Bell, 1883, , pp. 492-93. Fossegrim is said to be willing to teach away his skills in exchange for a food offering made on a Thursday evening and in secrecy: a white he-goat thrown with head turned away into a waterfall that flows northwards,Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, p. 493. or smoked mutton (fenalår) stolen from the neighbour's storage four Thursdays in a row. If there is not enough meat on the bone, he will only teach the supplicant how to tune the fiddle.
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His fingers dig into the back of his child whose head and right arm are already consumed. Saturn is about to take another bite of the body's left arm. The only use of color beside fleshtones is the splash of red blood covering the mutilated outline of the upper part of the partially eaten, motionless body which is chillingly depicted in deathly white. Witches' Sabbath or The Great He-Goat (') is an ominous, gloomy and earth-toned illustration which depicts the ancient belief that the Sabbath was a meeting of witches supervised by the Devil who took the form of a goat.
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"Bill the goat", mascot of BB-17 USS Rhode Island, circa 1913 For centuries, ships sailed with livestock in order to provide sailors with fresh food. Ships in the British and early American navies often carried goats, to eat the garbage and other undesirable food and to return milk and butter. The first usage of "billy goat" for a male goat occurs in the 19th century replacing the older term "he-goat." And the first creature, animal or otherwise, to circle the earth twice was a (female) goat that traveled first with Wallis (1767) and then with Captain Cook (1768).
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In Leah Crowley he found an ideal magical partner. He called her vagina "the Hirsig patent vacuum-pump". After Raoul Loveday died from drinking contaminated water at Cefalù, Mary Butts reported in one of her journals about Hirsig of an unsuccessful attempt to induce a he-goat to copulate with her at the Abbey of Thelema, emulating an ancient pagan ritual (an account corroborated by Crowley himself in an unpublished passage in one of his diaries).John Symonds, in introduction, page ix, to Aleister Crowley, White Stains (London, Duckworth, 1986); cited by Richard Kaczinsky, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (North Atlantic Books, 2010).
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A king had a wife, Silver-Tree, and a daughter, Gold-Tree. One day they walked by a pond, and Silver-Tree asked a trout if she were the most beautiful queen in the world, whereupon the trout said that Gold-Tree was more beautiful. Silver-Tree took to her bed and declared she would never be well unless she ate Gold-Tree's heart and liver. A king's son had asked to marry Gold-Tree, so her father agreed and sent them off; then he gave his wife the heart and liver of a he-goat, at which she got up from her bed.
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He wrote three books on witchcraft, analysing the Sabbath, lycanthropy, and sexual relationships during the Sabbath. In his opinion, Satan had little sexual intercourse with single women, because he preferred married women for that implied also adultery, and the incest between mothers and sons at the end of the Sabbath was essential to give birth to demonic children, as well as a sexual act between a witch and a he-goat (believed to be Satan present at the reunion). He also thought that Satan was pleased with a clean body but not a clean (or pure) soul, inducing people to wash their bodies and embellish themselves with ornaments.
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The recipe 'take clarified honey, fresh urine of a he-goat, alum, borax, oliver oil, and salt; mix everything well together and quench therein' might, through the urea content of the urine (H2NCONH2), have helped to produce nitrated, 'case-hardened' iron. Less likely to have been efficacious is: 'take varnish, dragon's blood, horn scrapings, half as much salt, juice made from earthworms, radish juice, tallow, and vervain and quench therein. It is also very advantageous in hardening if a piece that is to be hardened is first thoroughly cleaned and well polished'.Rolf E. Hummel, Understanding Materials Science: History · Properties · Applications (New York: Springer, 1998), p. 7.
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The child died immediately after the death of the snake and the family was left in sorrow. The family was advised by the elders to perform religious ceremonies to worship Gugga and Sidh and a he-goat was left free to mark the place of worship by striking at a particular place. The place was recognised as Mari Gugga where people from all walks of life have been worshipping Gugga on the fourth day of the month of Bhadas every year. The farmers of the Malwa belt recognise the fair to the extent that they change the agricultural chores according to the dates of the mela.
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However, both of them were found to have the same type, the royal antelope. Hence these were treated as synonyms for N. pygmaeus. The generic name Neotragus is constituted by two Greek words: neo ("new") and tragus ("he-goat"), while the specific name pygmaeus comes from the Greek pugmaios ("as small as a fist", in reference to the diminutive size of the antelope). The vernacular name "royal antelope" is based on a statement made by Willem Bosman, a merchant associated with the Dutch West India Company, that the antelope was called "the king of the harts" ("hart" means "deer" in Old English) by locals.
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For many years Burrow Walls was believed to be the fort Gabrosentum or Gabrocentio, found in The Notitia Dignitatum for Britain, which lists several military commands (the Dux Britanniarum, the Count of the Saxon Shore (Comes Litoris Saxonici per Britannias) and the Comes Britanniarum). The word Gabrocentum has its origins in the Welsh or Ancient British gafr meaning "he goat" and the word hynt (set in Old Irish) meaning "path".Armstrong AM, Mawer A, Stenton FM, Dickens Bruce (1952), The Place-Names of Cumberland, English Place-Name Society, Vol XXII Part III, P512. Today, many scholars believe it is more likely to be the fort known as Magis.
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The evidence gathered covered 11,000 pages in all. Only six people out of 1,802 maintained their confessions and claimed to have returned to sabbaths. In the stir of the events, proceedings were started in Hondarribia too (1611), some 35 km away from Zugarramurdi and 19 km from St-Jean-de-Luz, main hotspots of witchcraft allegations, against presumable female witches accused of casting spells on living creatures and meeting in Jaizkibel in akelarres, led by a he-goat shaped Devil. Men in this Bidasoa region were recruited in droves for Basque whaling, leaving women on their own (sometimes save for the priests, children, and elders) to deal with their problems and fend for themselves during long periods.
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Witches' Sabbath 1821–1823, 140cm × 438cm, Museo del Prado Goya used the imagery of covens of witches in a number of works, most notably in one of his Black Paintings, Witches' Sabbath or The Great He-Goat (1821–1823). Goya's paintings have been seen as a protest against those who upheld and enforced the values of the Spanish Inquisition, which had been active in Witch hunting during the seventeenth-century Basque witch trials. Critics in the 20th century surmise that the Witches Sabbath was painted in 1798 as a bitter struggle raged between liberals and those in favour of a church and a royalist-led state, which culminated in the so-called Ominous Decade (1823–1833)."Dark Knight".
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Aulus Cornelius Celsus, writing ca. 30 AD, described night blindness and recommended an effective dietary supplement, liver being a good source of vitamin A: "There is besides a weakness of the eyes, owing to which people see well enough indeed in the daytime but not at all at night; in women whose menstruation is regular this does not happen. But success sufferers should anoint their eyeballs with the stuff dripping from a liver whilst roasting, preferably of a he-goat, or failing that of a she-goat; and as well they should eat some of the liver itself." Historically, nyctalopia, also known as moonblink, was a temporary night blindness believed to be caused by sleeping in moonlight in the tropics.
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Children Playing with a Goat is one of several copies after his bas-relief of putti playing with a he-goat, which became quite popular with Dutch artists. His characteristic putti, plump, with carefully observed children's heads, helped to establish the conventional type, familiar in the paintings of Rubens: in fact Rubens wrote Duquesnoy in 1640 to thank him for sending him casts of the putti from the sculptor's Tomb of Ferdinand van den Eynde in Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome. Flemish boxwood or ivory carvings, especially with scenes of putti, are often casually described as "in his manner", though he never left Rome. Aside from his brother, who collaborated with him in his studio, his most prominent pupils were François DieussartFrançois Dieussart in the RKD.
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The majority of white South Africans identify themselves as primarily South African, regardless of their first language or ancestry. Colloquial terms for the British in Africa which might be considered derogatory include the Afrikaans term rooinek (literally "red neck", probably from the stereotype that they sunburn relatively easily although unrelated to the American term redneck), the Australian term pommy,'Beberu'in Kenya which means he-goat and the isiZulu term mlungu which may also be applied to white Africans in general. The term Anglo-African has been used historically to describe people living in the British Empire in Africa, Harry Johnston (1858–1927) and E. D. Morel (1873–1924) are referred to as Anglo-Africans in this publication. although it has also been used to self- identify by people of mixed British and indigenous African ancestry.
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Lon (Loncey Dalton Ysabel; also "Cuchilo", the Knife, among the Comanche; or "Cabrito", literally "little he-goat" and hence a synonym for one meaning of the English word "Kid", to Spanish- speakers) is the third member of the principal triumvirate of the Floating Outfit stories. Half Kentucky Irish, one-quarter French Creole and one-quarter Comanche, Loncey was raised as a member of his grandfather's "Dog Soldier" Lodge and received Comanche training until adolescence. Because of this he is fully the equal of any full-blood Indian in skills such as stealth and tracking, speaks several Indian languages and can communicate in sign language, and is an expert horse-rider and trainer. His personal mount is an exceptionally fierce white stallion named, with deliberate irony, "Nigger" ("Blackie" in some editions) which he trained as a boy.
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The archaeological evidence in itself insufficient to decide whether the monastery was of western or eastern rite. Even the possible Byzantine origin of the mosaics does not support convincingly the Orthodox identification of the place, because in one hand of the very strong relationship between the Kingdom of Hungary (see Béla III's Byzantine connections), and on the other hand the ground plan and the architectural appearance of the building-complex rather represents a classical western liturgical space. The surface is constituted by several polychrome mosaics, grouped into three 4.5m by 1.3m panels, beautifully crafted, depicting real or fantastic animal, floral, solar and geometric representations. The bestiary, containing a wolf-headed centaur, a half dog- half boar, a winged he-goat, a bear, a rabbit, a predator bird catching a fish, seems to illustrate the allegorical battle between good and evil.
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Sex is considered an atavism by them, an unwelcome relic of the past; any male, as nothing more than a he-goat to be disposed of; while the villages are being "overcome" one by one unawares--drowned, turned into lakes, together with the males--in a slow but unrelenting action. Thinking this future too cruel and terrible, having his wife taken away from him by the females who know he's an alien "from the cliffs" but still refuse to engage with him for being a male and chase him away, Candide decides to throw in his lot with the villagers. He returns home and tries to warn them but they take his stories of ruthless Amazon rulers of the Forest as laughable fairy tales. Whatever the future must be, decides Silent, his place is here, among these nice good people, trying to protect them as much as possible for as long as he possibly can.
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150 #Fox #Yale (an animal with the tail of an elephant and the jaws of a goat)McCulloch 1960, pp. 190-91 #Wolf #Dog #Sheep #Ram (male sheep) and wether (castrated male sheep) #Lamb #He-goat and kid #Boar #Bull #Ox and wild ox #Camel #Dromedary #Ass #Onager (wild ass) #Horse #Cat #Mouse #Weasel #Mole #Hedgehog #Ant #Eagle #Vulture #Crane #Parrot #Caladrius (a white bird capable of predicting the outcome of an illness)McCulloch 1960, pp. 99-101 #Swan #Stork #Ibis #Coot #Ostrich #Kingfisher #Heron #Goose #Horned owl #Small owl or night raven #Phoenix #Cinnamolgus (an Arabian bird that nests in the cinnamon tree)McCulloch 1960, pp. 103-104 #Hercinia (a German bird that glows in the dark)McCulloch 1960, p. 125 #Hoopoe #Pelican #Siren (half-human, half-bird) #Partridge #Quail #Magpie and woodpecker #Hawk #Gull #Tawny owl #Bat #Raven #Crow #Dove #Turtledove #Tern #Peacock #Cock #Hen #Duck #Bee #Peridexion tree (an Indian tree whose shadow frightens dragons)McCulloch 1960, pp.
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The satanic "horned god" symbol known as the baphomet is based on an Egyptian ram deity that was worshipped in Mendes, called Banebdjed (literally Ba of the lord of djed, and titled "the Lord of Mendes"), who was the soul of Osiris. According to Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of ancient Egypt, the book's author Geraldine Harris, said the ram gods Ra-Amun (see: Cult of Ammon), and Banebdjed, were to mystically unite with the queen of Egypt to sire the heir to the throne (a theory based on depictions found in several Theban temples in Mendes). Occultist Eliphas Levi in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1855), combined the images of the Tarot of Marseilles' Devil card and refigured the ram Banebdjed as a he-goat, calling it the "Baphomet of Mendes," (or, "Goat of Mendes"). The inaccurate description can be traced back to Herodotus' Histories Book II, where Herodotus describes the deity of Mendes as having a goat's head and fleece, when Banebdjedet was really represented by a ram, not a goat.
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The Rabbis in a Baraita taught that the "ordinances" (, mishpatim) were commandments that logic would have dictated that we follow even had Scripture not commanded them, like the laws concerning idolatry, adultery, bloodshed, robbery, and blasphemy. And "statutes" (, chukim) were commandments that the Adversary challenges us to violate as beyond reason, like those relating to purification of the person with skin disease (, tzara'at, in ), wool-linen mixtures (, shaatnez, in and ), release from levirate marriage (, chalitzah, in ), and the he goat for Azazel (in ). So that people do not think these "ordinances" (, mishpatim) to be empty acts, in God says, "I am the Lord," indicating that the Lord made these statutes, and we have no right to question them.Babylonian Talmud Yoma 67b (Babylonia, 6th century), in, e.g., Koren Talmud Bavli: Yoma, commentary by Adin Even- Israel (Steinsaltz) (Jerusalem: Koren Publishers, 2013), volume 9, page 325; see also Sifra Aharei Mot pereq 13, 194:2:11, in, e.g., Jacob Neusner, translator, Sifra: An Analytical Translation (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988), volume 3, page 79.
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