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  2. Millipede - Wikipedia

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    Millipedes can be an unwanted nuisance particularly in greenhouses where they can potentially cause severe damage to emergent seedlings. Most millipedes defend themselves with a variety of chemicals secreted from pores along the body, although the tiny bristle millipedes are covered with tufts of detachable bristles. Its primary defence ...

  3. Serpent symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The anthropologist Lynne Isbell has argued that, as primates, the serpent as a symbol of death is built into our unconscious minds because of our evolutionary history.. Isbell argues that for millions of years snakes were the only significant predators of primates, and that this explains why fear of snakes is one of the most common phobias worldwide and why the symbol of the serpent is so ...

  4. Myriapoda - Wikipedia

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    Although the name "millipede" is a compound word formed from the Latin roots millia ("thousand") and pes (gen. pedis) ("foot"), millipedes typically have between 36 and 400 legs. In 2021, however, was described Eumillipes persephone , the first species known to have 1,000 or more legs, possessing 1,306 of them. [ 28 ]

  5. Analocostreptus gregorius - Wikipedia

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    Analocostreptus gregorius, previously called Spirostreptus gregorius and sometimes called African olive millipede is a millipede of the family Spirostreptidae. The species was first described by Carl Attems in his 1914 Afrikanische Spirostreptiden: nebst Ueberblick über die Spirostreptiden orbis terrarum Attems, C. M. T. Graf von.

  6. Fossils reveal head of ancient millipede that was biggest bug ...

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    Having two pairs of legs by segments, like millipedes, affected its locomotion and implies it was a rather slow arthropod," Lhéritier said.

  7. Spirituality - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. [1] [2] [3] [note 1] Traditionally, spirituality is referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape of man", [note 2] oriented at "the image of God" [4] [5] as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world.

  8. Crossroads (folklore) - Wikipedia

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    The Greeks and Romans believed doors, gates, rivers, frontiers and crossroads held spiritual meanings regarding transitioning, leaving one area and going somewhere else, a change in directions physically and spiritually; therefore rituals of protection and rituals regarding change (transition) were done at crossroads.

  9. What Is the Spiritual Meaning of Seeing a Bald Eagle? - AOL

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    What Are the Spiritual Meanings of Seeing a Bald Eagle? 1. You Need To Gain Perspective “With eyesight that is 4-7 times sharper than a human’s is, bald eagles are often messengers of taking a ...