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For use on whetstones. [3] Draumstafir: To dream of unfulfilled desires. [3] Dreprún: To kill an enemy's cattle. [4] Feingur: A fertility symbol. [3] Gapaldur: Two staves, kept in the shoes, gapaldur under the heel of the right foot and ginfaxi under the toes of the left foot, to magically ensure victory in bouts of Icelandic wrestling . [2 ...
The symbol is attested in the Huld Manuscript, collected in Iceland by Geir Vigfusson in Akureyri in 1860, [1] and does not have any earlier attestations. [ citation needed ] A leaf of the manuscript provides an image of the vegvísir , gives its name, and, in prose, declares that "if this sign is carried, one will never lose one's way in ...
Pages in category "Zoroastrian symbols" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Atar; F. Faravahar
The New Persian word فروهر is read as foruhar or faravahar (pronounced as furōhar or furūhar in Classical Persian).The Middle Persian forms were frawahr (Book Pahlavi: plwʾhl, Manichaean: prwhr), frōhar (recorded in Pazend as 𐬟𐬭𐬋𐬵𐬀𐬭; it is a later form of the previous form), and fraward (Book Pahlavi: plwlt', Manichaean: frwrd), which was directly from Old Persian ...
This structure is exploited in computation of more figures by means of the XOR function used widely in computer science and electrical systems; when two figures are "added" to form a new figure (where points in the lines of the same elements are summed, divided by two, and the remainder taken), the logical operation obtains the new figure by ...
The Odu Ifá corpus consists of 256 sacred poems, each associated with a specific set of symbols, known as Ikin Ifá. These symbols are used to divine the future, understand the present, and interpret the past. The Odu Ifá poems contain a wealth of knowledge, including myths, legends, historical events, and philosophical teachings.
Blissymbols or Blissymbolics is a constructed language conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts.
Orthodox images more often contained inscriptions with the names of saints, so the Eastern repertoire of attributes is generally smaller than the Western. Many of the most prominent saints, like Saint Peter and Saint John the Evangelist can also be recognised by a distinctive facial type. Some attributes are general, such as the martyr's palm. [4]