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  2. Chiastic structure - Wikipedia

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    The verse contains 9 sentences which exhibit chiasmus, but perhaps more interesting is that it is found in the longest chapter of the Quran, Al-Baqara, which itself contains a fractal chiastic structure in its 286 verses, i.e. where each (outer) chiasm is composed of (inner) chiastic structures reflected in some sense in the analogue outer chiasm.

  3. Chiasmus - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, chiasmus (/ k aɪ ˈ æ z m ə s / ky-AZ-məs) or, less commonly, chiasm (Latin term from Greek χίασμα chiásma, "crossing", from the Greek χιάζω, chiázō, "to shape like the letter Χ"), is a "reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses – but no repetition of words".

  4. Book of Odes (Bible) - Wikipedia

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    Prayer of Jonah (Jonah 2:3–10) Prayer of Azariah (Daniel 3:26–45, a deuterocanonical portion) Song of the Three Holy Children (Daniel 3:52–90, a deuterocanonical portion) The Magnificat; Prayer of Mary the Theotokos (Luke 1:46–55) The Song of the Vineyard: A Canticle of Isaiah (Isaiah 5:1–7) Prayer of Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:10–20)

  5. Optic chiasm - Wikipedia

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    The optic chiasm is found in all vertebrates, although in cyclostomes (lampreys and hagfishes), it is located within the brain. [2] [3] This article is about the optic chiasm of vertebrates, which is the best known nerve chiasm, but not every chiasm denotes a crossing of the body midline (e.g., in some invertebrates, see Chiasm (anatomy)).

  6. Daniel's final vision - Wikipedia

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    Daniel is episodic rather than linear: it has no plot as such. It does, however, have a structure. Chapters 2–7 form a chiasm, a literary figure in which elements mirror each other: chapter 2 is the counterpart of chapter 7, chapter 3 of chapter 6, and chapter 4 of chapter 5, with the second member of each pair advancing the first in some way.

  7. Tree of life (Kabbalah) - Wikipedia

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    An eleventh sefirah, Da'at, appears in some diagrams of the tree halfway between Keter (node 1) and Tiferet (node 6). [15] The diagram is also used in Christian Kabbalah, Hermetic Qabalah, and Theosophy. [16] The nodes are also associated with deities, angels, celestial bodies, moral values, single colors or combinations of them, and specific ...

  8. Catholic liturgy - Wikipedia

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    Liturgy encompasses the entire service: prayer, reading and proclamation, singing, gestures, movement and vestments, liturgical colours, symbols and symbolic actions, the administration of sacraments and sacramentals. Liturgy (from Greek: leitourgia) is a composite word meaning originally a public duty, a service to the state undertaken by a ...

  9. Prayer of Saint Ephrem - Wikipedia

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    Icon of Saint Ephrem the Syrian (Meryem Ana Kilesesi, Diyarbakır, Turkey). "The Prayer of Saint Ephrem" (Greek: Ἐὐχὴ τοῦ Ὁσίου Ἐφραίμ, Efchí toú Osíou Efrem), is a prayer attributed to Saint Ephrem the Syrian and used during the Great Lent by the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches.