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  2. List of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust characters ...

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    Grumman, also known as Jopari or John Parry, is a shaman and travels with Lee into the world of Cittàgazze. Lee gives his life fighting Magisterium soldiers, allowing John Parry to reach his goal. Following their deaths, Lee and Parry fight Spectres after they are released from the Land of the Dead in The Amber Spyglass. After this task is ...

  3. List of Asterix characters - Wikipedia

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    On one occasion (The Mansions of the Gods) the Pirates appear on land, as part of the group of slaves (later freed) in the story. However, in one story so far—Asterix and the Cauldron—they end up happy for a change when a cauldron full of money that Asterix has been chasing throughout the story is tipped over a cliff and lands in their laps.

  4. Radagast - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien's Radagast, with his affinity for animals, knowledge of herbs, and shape-changing abilities, has been compared to a shaman. [1] Altai shaman pictured.. Unfinished Tales explains that Radagast, like the other Wizards, came from Valinor around the year 1000 of the Third Age of Middle-earth and was one of the angelic Maiar.

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  6. Jiu Ge - Wikipedia

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    David Hawkes describes it as "surely one of the most beautiful laments for fallen soldiers in any language". [24] The meter is a regular seven-character verse, with three characters separated by the exclamatory particle "兮" followed by three more characters, each composing a half line, for a total of nine lines of 126 characters.

  7. Mircea Eliade - Wikipedia

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    According to Eliade, one of the most common shamanistic themes is the shaman's supposed death and resurrection. This occurs in particular during his initiation . [ 144 ] Often, the procedure is supposed to be performed by spirits who dismember the shaman and strip the flesh from his bones, then put him back together and revive him.

  8. Shaman (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Shaman (singer), an alias of Yaroslav Dronov, a Russian singer; Shamans, a 2002 album by musician Aziza Mustafa Zadeh; Korpiklaani, a Finnish folk metal band formerly known as Shaman; The Shamen, a British dance band "Shaman", a song by the 3rd and the Mortal from the album Tears Laid in Earth

  9. Shamanism - Wikipedia

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    A debated etymology of the word "shaman" is "one who knows", [10] [103] implying, among other things, that the shaman is an expert in keeping together the multiple codes of the society, and that to be effective, shamans must maintain a comprehensive view in their mind which gives them certainty of knowledge. [9]