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  2. Celtic Animism - Wikipedia

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    The Celts of the ancient world believed that many spirits and divine beings inhabited the world around them, and that humans could establish a rapport with these beings. [2]: 196 The archaeological and the literary record indicate that ritual practice in Celtic societies lacked a clear distinction between the sacred and profane; rituals, offerings, and correct behaviour maintained a balance ...

  3. Animal worship - Wikipedia

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    One Incan animal god is the Urcuchillay, [95] who was worshipped by herders. He was believed to take the shape of a multi-colored llama who watched over the livestock. Urcuchillay was believed to be essential for the health of the herd, the resources from the herd, and the health of the next generation of the herd.

  4. Animism - Wikipedia

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    It involves researching and mapping the spiritual and social history of an area in order to determine the demon (territorial spirit) controlling an area and preventing evangelism, so that the demon can be defeated through spiritual warfare prayer and rituals. Both posit that an invisible spirit world is active and that it can be interacted with ...

  5. Xipe Totec - Wikipedia

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    Annotated image of Xipe Totec sculpture. In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec (/ ˈ ʃ iː p ə ˈ t oʊ t ɛ k /; Classical Nahuatl: Xīpe Totēc [ˈʃiːpe ˈtoteːk(ʷ)]) or Xipetotec [3] ("Our Lord the Flayed One") [4] was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, spring, goldsmiths, silversmiths, liberation, deadly warfare, the seasons, [5] and the earth. [6]

  6. Apotropaic magic - Wikipedia

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    Peisistratus hung the figure of a kind of grasshopper before the Acropolis of Athens for protection. [10] Another way for protection from enchantment used by the ancient Greeks was by spitting into the folds of the clothes. [10] Ancient Greeks also had an old custom of dressing boys as girls in order to avert the evil eye. [11]

  7. Insects in mythology - Wikipedia

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    In Egyptian mythology, bees grew from the tears of the sun god Ra when they landed on the desert sand. There Egyptian gods that associate with insects like Selket Khepri and Neith [2] The bowstring on Hindu love god Kamadeva's bow is made of honeybees. [3] The Baganda people of Uganda hold the legend of Kintu, the first man on earth. Save for ...

  8. Radical beliefs in 'spiritual warfare' played a major role in ...

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    Taylor also specified that it was not simply a belief in “spiritual warfare” that inclined Trump supporters to lean toward real-world violence, but a more intensified and specific form of this ...

  9. Spiritual warfare - Wikipedia

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    The most notable of spiritual warfare prayers in the Catholic tradition is known as the Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel. [ 13 ] Pope John Paul II stated that "'Spiritual combat'... is a secret and interior art, an invisible struggle in which monks engage every day against the temptations".