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  1. The anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God asked him to, sacrifice ,his son. Music Bob Dylan's" Highway 61 Revisited" is the title track for his
  2. Neoclassic artists used classical forms to express their ideas about courage, sacrifice , and love of country. David and Canola are examples of neoclassicism.
  3. His enemies long after death. He did not—I repeat not—perform or advocate human, sacrifice , He was often guilty, however,of the crime of poor judgment. Like all of us
  4. Close to death. The public response included prayers in temples and offers to, sacrifice ,limbs to save him, while later, there were long queues of well-wishing fans
  5. Then the deceased were cut into pieces, boiled in cauldrons, and eaten as a, sacrifice , This act of cannibalism was used to terrify the Judea people and their
  6. Point they aggregate and form a multicellular fruiting body in which some cells, sacrifice ,themselves to promote the survival of other cells in the fruiting body. Social
  7. Paintings on the life of Abraham tend to focus on only a few incidents: The, sacrifice ,of Isaac; Meeting Melchizedek; Entertaining the three angels; Hagar in the
  8. According to Classical Arabic, not Modern Standard Arabic, the Arabic root (to, sacrifice ,) can be derived the forms (he sacrifice d),(you (masculine singular)
  9. For her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a, sacrifice ,to a sea monster. She was saved from death by Perseus, her future husband. Her
  10. On it, not many, which the people who happen to arrive here with their ships, sacrifice ,to Achilles. In this temple are also deposited a great many holy gifts, craters
  11. Those to be remembered being placed in the proximity of the altar on which the, sacrifice ,of the mass is offered. The legend connected with its foundation is given by
  12. Who carries the oblation from humans to the gods, bringing the gods to, sacrifice , and interceding between gods and humans (Rev.1.26.3). When Agni is pleased
  13. Artemis, and the Greek army set out for Troy. Several alternatives to the human, sacrifice ,have been presented in Greek mythology. Other sources, such as Iphigenia at
  14. Love, to thee it is: We bring these amaranths, these white lilies, : A sign, and, sacrifice , ; may Love, we pray, : Like quarantine flowers, feel no decay;: Like these cool
  15. The protector of sailors and navigation. Sailors went out of their way to offer, sacrifice , To Achilles of Luce were dedicated a number of important commercial port
  16. Of food or shedding of blood at the grave develops into an elaborate system of, sacrifice , Even where ancestor worship is not found, the desire to provide the dead with
  17. To adopt Japanese names and ordered to cease religious practices such as animal, sacrifice ,and the custom of tattooing. The 1899 act mentioned above was replaced in
  18. As claiming she was to be married to Achilles, but Agamemnon did eventually, sacrifice ,Iphigenia. Her death appeased Artemis, and the Greek army set out for Troy.
  19. Vision in heaven, and that they may be helped to do so by prayer and by the, sacrifice ,of the Mass (see Purgatory). In other words, when they died, they had not yet
  20. Heaven and earth, the deities and the humans, he is associated with Vedic, sacrifice , taking offerings to the other world in his fire. In Hinduism, his vehicle is
  21. Feet. The Old Testament scenes depicted were chosen as precursors of Christ's, sacrifice ,in the New Testament, in an early form of typology. Just to the right of the
  22. Point in Isaac's youth, Abraham was commanded by God to offer his son up as a, sacrifice ,in the land of Mariah. The patriarch traveled three days until he came to the
  23. To persuade generals and Emulates to evade the Nero Decree and avoid needless, sacrifice ,of personnel and destruction of industry that would be needed after the war.
  24. By his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to, sacrifice ,to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.
  25. Meade in Lower, also deep in the heart of Gaul, bishop Privates was forced to, sacrifice ,to idols in the very cave where he was later venerated. It is thought this
  26. Of the middle is Daniel in the lion's den and on the left is Abraham about to, sacrifice ,Isaac. Abraham's Farewell to Ishmael by George Legal. The artist created
  27. Through complete forgetfulness of one's own concerns. The importance lies in, sacrifice ,for the sake of the greater good; Islam considers those practicing i'their as
  28. Of a crucifix, sacred to the Christian religion and representing Christ's, sacrifice ,and final suffering, submerged in a glass of the artist's own urine. The
  29. Before engaging in ritual fighting at the Phoebe. The Catholic nighttime, sacrifice ,of a dog to Entails became assimilated to the cult of Ares. Just east of
  30. A moral notion of the gift and of fortune on the one hand, and of a notion of, sacrifice , on the other. Generosity is an obligation, because Nemesis avenges the poor
  31. And use digraphs (like sh and km). These are usually more simple to read, but, sacrifice , the definiteness of the scientific systems, and may lead to ambiguities, e. g.
  32. The first hymn of the Rigged: Agni I laud, the high priest, god,minister of, sacrifice , The invoked, lavishest of wealth. He is the supreme director of religious
  33. Of Greece of 480 BC and buried alive nine young men and nine maidens as a, sacrifice ,to the river god. Near the later site of Amphiboles Alexander I of Macedon
  34. Circumcision and subincision, and torture. Topics like racism, slavery or human, sacrifice , therefore, attract anthropological attention and theories ranging from
  35. As a reference to genes in sperm. Crowley added in a footnote to the text on, sacrifice ," the intelligence and innocence of that male child are the perfect
  36. Announced that the wrath of the goddess could only be propitiated by the, sacrifice ,of Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia. Classical dramatizations differ on how
  37. People. When, on the eighth day, the high priest had inaugurated his office of, sacrifice ,by killing the animals, he blessed the people (very likely according to the
  38. Seeing the Eucharist as a liturgical representation of Christ's atoning, sacrifice ,with the elements actually transformed into Christ's Body and Blood. The
  39. For an attack that wins the game 20 moves later, after another spectacular, sacrifice ,from Karol and counter- sacrifice from Sax. It won the tournament's first
  40. Bobbie records that Columbus was active in Bregenz, where he disrupted a beer, sacrifice ,to Woman. Despite these activities, for some time, the Alemannic seem to have
  41. Passions. Men must be ready, they must pride themselves, and be happy to, sacrifice ,their private Pleasures, Passions,and Interests, nay their private Friendships
  42. In the struggle. Room is also aware that working for the common good demands, sacrifice ,; he cannot expect personal happiness. This is a lesson that Lambert learns. At
  43. The desire to provide the dead with comforts in the future life may lead to the, sacrifice ,of wives, slaves,animals, and so on, to the breaking or burning of objects at
  44. Were sacred to him. Cult and ritual Although Ares received occasional, sacrifice ,from armies going to war, the god had a formal temple and cult at only a few
  45. An oracle told them to take the head down and bury it, and to make annual, sacrifice ,to One silos as a hero, saying that it would be better for them if they did this
  46. Of the notion of alms (and by extension of altruism) from the notion of, sacrifice , Alms are the fruits of a moral notion of the gift and of fortune on the one
  47. Abraham then replied that God would provide one. Just as Abraham was about to, sacrifice ,his son, he was prevented by an angel, and given on that spot a ram which he
  48. Easing of restrictions to his dying prayer and also compared it to the intended, sacrifice ,of Abraham’s son. Abraham in the Arts Paintings on the life of
  49. Did make it;: I do believe and take it. An Anglican position on the Eucharistic, sacrifice ,(" Sacrifice of the Mass" ) was expressed in the response Series Office of
  50. Also killed Cassandra. Her jealousy of Cassandra, and her wrath at the, sacrifice ,of Iphigenia and at Agamemnon's having gone to war over Helen of Troy, are

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