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  2. Vanara - Wikipedia

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    Aiyanagar suggests that though the poet of the Ramayana may have known that vanaras were actually forest-dwelling people, he may portrayed them as real monkeys with supernatural powers and many of them as amsa s (portions) of the gods to make the epic more "fantastic". [3] According to one theory, the Vanaras are semi-divine creatures.

  3. Oiketerion - Wikipedia

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    Oiketerion (οἰκητήριον) is a Greek word meaning "dwelling", [1] or "habitation". [2] [3]It is used in two places in the Bible; in the King James Version translation, they are:

  4. Shekhinah - Wikipedia

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    Shekhinah (Hebrew: שְׁכִינָה ‎, Modern: Šəḵīna, Tiberian: Šeḵīnā) [1] is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the presence of God in a place. This concept is found in Judaism from Talmudic literature. [2]

  5. Kinnara - Wikipedia

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    Kalidasa in his Kumara Sambhava describes them as dwelling in the Himalayas. kinnaras lived also over the hills of Pandaraka, Trikutaka, Mallangiri, Candapabbata, and Gandhamandana (Jataka No. 485). They were tender-hearted and Jataka No. 540 refers to the story of the kinnaras nursing a human baby whose parents have gone away to the woods.

  6. Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister" - Wikipedia

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    Heidegger next focuses on the fact that it is clear that "the rivers come to language" in Hölderlin's poetry. On the one hand, the rivers are detached from human being, having their own "spirit"; on the other hand, the rivers are a locale at which human beings find their dwelling place. The question is thus that of the poetic essence of the river.

  7. Rakshasa - Wikipedia

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    The Pandava hero Bhima was the nemesis of forest-dwelling Rakshasas who dined on human travellers and terrorized human settlements. Bhima killed Hidimba, a cannibal Rakshasa. The Mahabharata describes him as a cruel cannibal with sharp, long teeth and prodigious strength. [10] When Hidimba saw the Pandavas sleeping in his forest, he decided to ...

  8. Human settlement - Wikipedia

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    London, a city in the United Kingdom, is a large settlement with a human population of 14 million in its metropolitan area.. In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular place.

  9. Habitation - Wikipedia

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    Human settlement, a community in which people live; Dwelling, a self-contained unit of accommodation used as a home; Habitation (India), an administrative division in India; Habitation at Port-Royal, France's first settlement in North America; Habitation de Québec, buildings interconnected by Samuel de Champlain when he founded Québec