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Duma(h) or Douma (Aramaic) is the angel of silence and of the stillness of death. [3]Dumah is also the tutelary angel of Egypt, prince of Hell, and angel of vindication. The Zohar speaks of him as having "tens of thousands of angels of destruction" under him, and as being "Chief of demons in Gehinnom [i.e., Hell] with 12,000 myriads of attendants, all charged with the punishment of the souls ...
A Dumah (Deir ad-Duma) in the vicinity of Hebron which is mentioned in Joshua 15:52 is one possibility. However, according to Geoffrey Bromiley , the oracle concerning Dumah in Isaiah 21:11-12 seems better suited to a place in Arabia , suggesting the site of Dumat al-Jandal as a more likely contender.
By 1613 the duma had increased to twenty boyars and eight okolnichies. Lesser nobles, "duma gentlemen" (dumnye dvoriane) and secretaries, were added to the duma and the number of okolnichies rose in the latter half of the 17th century. In 1676, the number of boyars increased to 50 – by then they constituted only a third of the duma.
The Adouma (or Duma) are an ethnic group of Gabon, in central Africa. [1] They primarily live on the South bank of the upper Ogooué River, in the vicinity of Lastoursville (originally an Adouma village), and are known as expert canoeists or the boatmen. They speak Duma, a Nzebi language of the Bantu family. [2]
Originally, it was the diminutive form of the Ukrainian term duma, pl. dumy, "a Slavic (specifically Ukrainian) epic ballad … generally thoughtful or melancholic in character". [1] Classical composers drew on the harmonic patterns in the folk music to inform their more formal classical compositions.
Duma, an American adventure film; Duma, an Israeli documentary; Duma (band), a Kenyan-Ugandan industrial grindcore band; Duma (DC Comics), a character in The Sandman comic book series; Duma (epic), epic poetry of Ukraine; Dumka (musical genre), an instrumental musical genre inspired by the Duma epic
Dumas are sung in recitative, in the so-called "duma mode", a variety of the Dorian mode with a raised fourth degree. Dumy were songs built around historical events, many dealing with military action in some forms. [1]: 247 Embedded in these historical events were religious and moralistic elements. There are themes of the struggle of the ...
Duma Building on Manege Square. The history of the duma dates back to the boyar dumas of Kievan Rus' and Muscovite Russia as well Tsarist Russia. [4] [5] [6] The State Duma of the Russian Empire was founded in 1905 after the violence and upheaval in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and was Russia's first elected parliament.