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  2. Holy Fire - Wikipedia

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    The Holy Fire (Greek: Ἃγιον Φῶς, "Holy Light") is a ceremony that occurs every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Great Saturday, the day before Orthodox Easter. During the ceremony, a prayer is performed after which a fire is lit inside the aediculae where some believe the Tomb of Jesus may have been located.

  3. Atar - Wikipedia

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    Atar is already evident in the Gathas, the oldest texts of the compendium of the Avesta and believed to have been composed by Zoroaster himself. At this juncture, as in the Yasna Haptanghaiti (the seven-chapter Yasna that structurally interrupts the Gathas and is linguistically as old as the Gathas themselves), atar is still—with only one exception—an abstract concept simply an instrument ...

  4. List of Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard.

  5. Cheers and flames as Orthodox worshipers greet the ancient ...

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    One of the most chaotic gatherings in the Christian calendar is the ancient ceremony of the “Holy Fire,” with worshipers thronging the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Saturday. Cheers and ...

  6. Kagu-tsuchi - Wikipedia

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    In the light novel High School DxD: Slash/Dog series, Kagu-tsuchi is the Shinto God of Fire and also the patron deity of the Himejima Clan whom in turned blessed them with the power of spiritual flames. A descendant of the Himejima, Tobio Ikuse is the wielder of the Ame no Ohabari, the divine sword which killed Kagu-tsuchi.

  7. List of Masonic abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    V∴ M∴ Venerable Master. Can also be Venerable Maestro (Spanish) the title used for Worshipful Master in Spanish speaking jurisdictions. V∴ D∴ B∴ – Very Dear Brother. V∴ D∴ S∴ A∴ – Veut Dieu Saint Amour, or Vult Dei Sanctus Animus. A formula used by the Knights Templar. The expression Veut Dieu Saint Amour means "Wishes God ...

  8. Flaming sword (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Snorri paraphrases the strophe of the poem a second time in Gylfaginning 51, merely saying: "Surt rides first, and before him and after him is burning fire", [19] [23] afterwards requoting more extensively around the same strophe (Völuspá 48–56). [24] The possibility that this sword imagery was inspired by Christian writings have been ...

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