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  2. Palm branch - Wikipedia

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    The palm was a symbol of Phoenicia and appeared on Punic coins. In ancient Greek, the word for palm, phoinix, was thought to be related to the ethnonym. In Archaic Greece, the palm tree was a sacred sign of Apollo, who had been born under a palm on the island of Delos. [8] The palm thus became an icon of the Delian League.

  3. Everything You Need to Know About the Symbolic Palm Cross

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    What is the meaning of the Palm Cross? sedmak. Palm Sunday itself marks the day Jesus entered Jerusalem. He entered the city knowing He would be tried and crucified—yet welcomed this fate in ...

  4. Lulav - Wikipedia

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    A lulav, as with all mitzvah articles (those used to fulfill biblical and rabbinical requirements within Judaism), must meet certain specifications in order to be kosher and permissible to be used to fulfill the commandment of the four species. Ideally, a lulav consists of a tightly closed frond of the date palm tree. [6]

  5. Arecaceae - Wikipedia

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    In Judaism, the palm represents peace and plenty, and is one of the Four Species of Sukkot; the palm may also symbolize the Tree of Life in Kabbalah. The canopies of the Rathayatra carts which carry the deities of Krishna and his family members in the cart festival of Jagganath Puri in India are marked with the emblem of a palm tree.

  6. What Is Palm Sunday and Why Do We Celebrate It? - AOL

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    What does the Bible say about Palm Sunday? In the Bible, Palm Sunday is regarded as a "triumphant entry" into Jerusalem for Jesus, but also bittersweet, as it also represents Jesus taking the ...

  7. Saint symbolism: Saints (I–P) - Wikipedia

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    Palm, Augustinian habit (without the typical nun hair net, since she was a lay sister), books [citation needed] Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney: Viking clothing, axe [citation needed] Magnus of Anagni: episcopal attire, martyr's palm [citation needed] Magnus of Cuneo: depicted as a soldier bearing a banner and the martyr's palm [citation needed]

  8. Religious symbol - Wikipedia

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    The Sigil was derived from an older symbol that appeared in the 1897 book "La Clef de la Magie Noire". This symbol was for a time used by the Church of Satan during its formative years. During the writing of The Satanic Bible, it was decided that a unique version of the symbol should be rendered to be identified exclusively with the Church of ...

  9. Christian symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The Crucifix, a cross with corpus, a symbol used in the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Anglicanism, in contrast with some other Protestant denominations, Church of the East, and Armenian Apostolic Church, which use only a bare cross Early use of a globus cruciger on a solidus minted by Leontios (r. 695–698); on the obverse, a stepped cross in the shape of an ...