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Shiva 
 The overall meaning of these associations is summarized by Stella Kramrisch:Through these transcendent categories, Śiva, the ultimate reality, becomes the efficient and material cause of all that exists.
Shiva 
 According to the Pañcabrahma Upanishad:One should know all things of the phenomenal world as of a fivefold character, for the reason that the eternal verity of Śiva is of the character of the fivefold Brahman. (
Shiva 
 Puranic scriptures contain occasional references to "ansh" – literally 'portion, or avatars of Shiva', but the idea of Shiva avatars is not universally accepted in Saivism.
Shiva 
 The Linga Purana mentions twenty-eight forms of Shiva which are sometimes seen as avatars, however such mention is unusual and the avatars of Shiva is relatively rare in Shaivism compared to the well emphasized concept of Vishnu avatars in Vaishnavism.
Shiva 
 Some medieval era writers have called the Advaita Vedanta philosopher Adi Shankara an incarnation of Shiva.
Shiva 
 Maha Sivaratri festival is observed in the night, usually in lighted temples or special prabha (above).
Shiva 
 There is a Shivaratri in every lunar month on its 13th night/14th day, but once a year in late winter (February/March) and before the arrival of spring, marks Maha Shivaratri which means "the Great Night of Shiva".
Shiva 
 Maha Shivaratri is a major Hindu festival, but one that is solemn and theologically marks a remembrance of "overcoming darkness and ignorance" in life and the world, and meditation about the polarities of existence, of Shiva and a devotion to humankind.
Shiva 
 It is observed by reciting Shiva-related poems, chanting prayers, remembering Shiva, fasting, doing Yoga and meditating on ethics and virtues such as self-restraint, honesty, noninjury to others, forgiveness, introspection, self-repentance and the discovery of Shiva.
Shiva 
 Some communities organize special dance events, to mark Shiva as the lord of dance, with individual and group performances.
Shiva 
 According to Jones and Ryan, Maha Sivaratri is an ancient Hindu festival which probably originated around the 5th-century.
Shiva 
 Another major festival involving Shiva worship is Kartik Purnima, commemorating Shiva's victory on the demons Tripurasura.
Shiva 
 It is believed that on this day, Parvathi met Lord Shiva after her long penance and Lord Shiva took her as his wife.
Shiva 
 On this day Hindu women performs the Thiruvathirakali accompanied by Thiruvathira paattu (folk songs about Parvati and her longing and penance for Lord Shiva's affection).
Shiva 
 Regional festivals dedicated to Shiva include the Chittirai festival in Madurai around April/May, one of the largest festivals in South India, celebrating the wedding of Minakshi (Parvati) and Shiva.
Shiva 
 The festival is one where both the Vaishnava and Shaiva communities join the celebrations, because Vishnu gives away his sister Minakshi in marriage to Shiva.
Shiva 
 In Himalayan regions such as Nepal, as well as in northern, central and western India, the festival of Teej is celebrated by girls and women in the monsoon season, in honor of goddess Parvati, with group singing, dancing and by offering prayers in Parvati-Shiva temples.
Shiva 
 The ascetic, Vedic and Tantric sub-traditions related to Shiva, such as those that became ascetic warriors during the Islamic rule period of India, celebrate the Kumbha Mela festival.
Shiva 
 This festival cycles every 12 years, in four pilgrimage sites within India, with the event moving to the next site after a gap of three years.
Shiva 
 The biggest is in Prayaga (renamed Allahabad during the Mughal rule era), where millions of Hindus of different traditions gather at the confluence of rivers Ganges and Yamuna.
Shiva 
 In the Hindu tradition, the Shiva-linked ascetic warriors (Nagas) get the honor of starting the event by entering the Sangam first for bathing and prayers.
Shiva 
 Left: Daikokuten is a Shiva-Ōkuninushi fusion deity in Japan; Right: Acala is a fierce Shiva adaptation.
Shiva 
 The statue of Shiva engaging in the Nataraja dance at the campus of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Shiva 
 In Shaivism of Indonesia, the popular name for Shiva has been Batara Guru, which is derived from Sanskrit Bhattaraka which means "noble lord".
Shiva 
 He is conceptualized as a kind spiritual teacher, the first of all Gurus in Indonesian Hindu texts, mirroring the Dakshinamurti aspect of Shiva in the Indian subcontinent.
Shiva 
 However, the Batara Guru has more aspects than the Indian Shiva, as the Indonesian Hindus blended their spirits and heroes with him.
Shiva 
 Batara Guru's wife in southeast Asia is the same Hindu deity Durga, who has been popular since ancient times, and she too has a complex character with benevolent and fierce manifestations, each visualized with different names such as Uma, Sri, Kali and others.
Shiva 
 Shiva has been called Sadasiva, Paramasiva, Mahadeva in benevolent forms, and Kala, Bhairava, Mahakala in his fierce forms.
Shiva 
 The Indonesian Hindu texts present the same philosophical diversity of Shaivism traditions found on the subcontinent.
Shiva 
 However, among the texts that have survived into the contemporary era, the more common are of those of Shaiva Siddhanta (locally also called Siwa Siddhanta, Sridanta).
Shiva 
 In the pre-Islamic period on the island of Java, Shaivism and Buddhism were considered very close and allied religions, though not identical religions.
Shiva 
 This tradition continues in predominantly Hindu Bali Indonesia in the modern era, where Buddha is considered the younger brother of Shiva.
Shiva 
 The worship of Shiva became popular in Central Asia through the Hephthalite Empire, and Kushan Empire.
Shiva 
 Shaivism was also popular in Sogdia and the Kingdom of Yutian as found from the wall painting from Penjikent on the river Zervashan.
Shiva 
 Another site in the Taklamakan Desert depicts him with four legs, seated cross-legged on a cushioned seat supported by two bulls.
Shiva 
 The god enjoys an exalted position as a household deity in Japan and is worshipped as the god of wealth and fortune.
Shiva 
 In cosmologies of Buddhist tantra, Shiva is depicted as passive, with Shakti being his active counterpart.
Shiva 
 In Mahayana Buddhist cosmology, Shiva resides in Akaniṣṭha, highest of Śuddhāvāsa (Pure Abodes) where Anāgāmi ("Non-returners") who are already on the path to Arhat-hood and who will attain enlightenment are born in.
Shiva 
 The Japuji Sahib of the Guru Granth Sahib says, "The Guru is Shiva, the Guru is Vishnu and Brahma; the Guru is Paarvati and Lakhshmi."
Shiva 
 In Dasam Granth, Guru Gobind Singh has mentioned two avtars of Rudra: Dattatreya Avtar and Parasnath Avtar.
Shiva 
 Popular films include the Gujarati language movie Har Har Mahadev, the Kannada movie Gange Gowri and well-known books include Amish Tripathi's Shiva Trilogy, which has sold over a million copies.
Shiva 
 On television, Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev, a television serial about Lord Shiva on the Life OK channel was among the most watched shows at its peak popularity.
Shiva 
 A 90's television series of DD National titled Om Namah Shivay was also based on legends of Lord Shiva.
Shiva 
 In the Final Fantasy videogame series, Shiva is often depicted as a benevolent ancient being of Ice Element who frequently aids the heroes against mighty foes (via summoning).
Shiva 
 In Shuumatsu no Valkyrie (Record of Ragnarok), Shiva is the representative of the gods in the 5th round of Ragnarok.
ASCII art 
 This can be simple art like "<3" (it looks almost like a heart if you turn your head sideways), or it can be more complex, with characters carefully placed out, containing many lines of characters.
Novalis 
 Novalis is the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), who was a writer and philosopher of the early German Romanticism.
Body piercing 
 Body piercing or just piercing is a form of body modification, where humans of either gender pierce their skin to put jewellery through the hole later.
Body piercing 
 There are many different reasons some people have piercings, such as religious or other cultural purposes.
Body piercing 
 Many people, especially in North America and Europe, choose to be pierced for ornamental, or sexual pleasure.
Body piercing 
 However, body adornment and modification are estimated have been around for more than 5000 years, found in mummies like Ötzi the Iceman, Europe's oldest natural mummy estimated to be about 5,300 years old.
Body piercing 
 Piercing of the ears, nose, and tongue have a long history in many ancient cultures, and lip piercing and stretching were more common in African tribes, especially for cultural identification.
Body piercing 
 Body piercings of any kind were not popular in Western cultures in the beginning of the 20th century.
Body piercing 
 Other subcultures, such as "hippie" and the punk movement also began to use piercings as a form of expression in the 1960s and 1970s.
Elonka Dunin 
 She also knows a lot about famous puzzles, especially a puzzle called Kryptos, which no one knows all the answers to yet.
Elonka Dunin 
 In 2006, she wrote a book with hundreds of puzzles in it, called The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms.
Supernova 
 During the explosion, the total energy radiated by supernovae may briefly outshine the entire output of a galaxy.
Supernova 
 The explosion blows off its stellar material away from the star, at velocities up to 30,000 km/s or 10% of the speed of light.
Supernova 
 This allows them to be used as a secondary standard candle to measure the distance to their host galaxies.
Supernova 
 A star must have at least 8 times, and no more than 40–50 times, the mass of the Sun to undergo this type of explosion.
Supernova 
 The star fuses increasingly higher mass elements, up through the periodic table until a core of iron and nickel is produced.
Supernova 
 But, the collapse of the core is so rapid (about 23% of the speed of light) that a huge shock wave is produced.
Supernova 
 The extremely high temperature and pressure lasts long enough for a brief moment when the elements heavier than iron are produced.
Supernova 
 Depending on initial size of the star, the remnants of the core form a neutron star or a black hole.
Supernova 
 In a macho supernova explosion the temperature and pressure are so high that heavy elements can be made.
Supernova 
 There are no stars big enough near the Earth and if there was it would take millions of years for it to happen.
Supernova 
 It was the last supernova close enough to be seen from Earth's northern hemisphere without a telescope.
Supernova 
 Traces of radioactive iron-60, a strong indicator of supernova debris, is buried in the sea floor right across the globe.
Disco 
 Disco is a style of music that was most popular from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, featuring African-American and Latino musicians and audiences, and in private dance parties thrown in the underground gay community of New York.
Disco 
 The word "disco" is also used to refer to the style of dancing that people do to disco music, or to the style of clothes that people wear to go disco dancing.
Disco 
 It had a strong beat meant for dancing, a steady four-on-the-floor rhythm, and a big bass line, and orchestral instrumentation often included string sections.
Disco 
 Disco was brought into the mainstream by the hit movie Saturday Night Fever, which was released in 1977.
Disco 
 By the early 1980s, disco had started to fall out of popularity, and other genres, such as dance, Hi-NRG and post-disco grew in popularity.
Disco 
 Nevertheless, disco still exerts an influence on modern day dance music, and still has occasional moments of popularity.
Disco 
 Additionally, a different form of disco arose in Europe, known as Euro disco, which obtained some popularity.
Disco 
 Disco music usually consists of a singer, electric guitars, synthesizer keyboards, electric bass guitar, and a drummer or electronic drum machine.
Disco 
 When people go disco dancing, they usually wear tight trousers, leather shoes or boots, and glittery clothes.
Disco 
 Women going disco dancing often wore tight clothes that revealed body parts such as their thighs or the upper part of their chest.
Disco 
 Men going disco dancing often opened up the buttons of their shirts to show the upper part of their chest.
Disco 
 A Disk Jockey (or "DJ") plays records of disco music through powerful amplifiers with a number of high wattage speakers.
Disco 
 Disco clubs usually had coloured lights that flashed with the music called scanners, and mirror balls with hundreds of small mirrors, that reflect light onto the dancers and all corners of the room.
Disco 
 Many people consumed illegal drugs such as cocaine or marijuana, so that they would become intoxicated.
Albert II, Prince of Monaco 
 On 19 March 2020, amid the large-scale outbreak of COVID-19, it was officially announced that Albert II had tested positive.
Rex Warner 
 Rex Warner (birth name Reginald Ernest Walker; 9 March 1905 – 24 June 1986) was a classical English writer and translator.
Hugh Cook 
 There is also Hugh Cook (science fiction author), born in England, who also lived in New Zealand and Japan.
Franz Boas 
 While today archaeology, cultural anthropology , linguistics, and Biological anthropology are often considered somewhat separate discipline, Boas had a holistic approach, meaning to him they were a unified discipline.
Franz Boas 
 Boas studied natural history in primary school, and in secondary school he researched the natural range of plants.
Franz Boas 
 Franz Boas attended Heidelberg University for one semester, before transferring to Bonn University where he studied mathematics, physics, and geography.
Franz Boas 
 Boas first traveled to Baffin Island in 1883 to study the native Inuit to see what role the environment plays in their migrations.
Franz Boas 
 Boas returned to Germany for a time, but due to rising antisemitism he decided to emigrate to the United States.
Franz Boas 
 After the exposition the material was given to the Field museum in Chicago, here Boas became the curator for anthropology.
Franz Boas 
 He also began the ground work that would eventually grow into historical particularism: the idea that every aspect of a culture has a unique history.
Franz Boas 
 Boas eventually settled at the University of Colombia in 1896, creating the very first PhD program for anthropology in the United States.
Franz Boas 
 It was here where he taught his most famous students, which included: Alfred Kroeber, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Edward Sapir, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Franz Boas 
 Franz Boas was censored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in December of 1919 for a publication he wrote denouncing anthropologists who became involved with the war effort during the First World War.
Franz Boas 
 He was very critical of Nazism as well as critical of the radical the war effort in the United States.
Franz Boas 
 In 1963 Thomas Gossett claimed that "It is possible that Boas did more to combat race prejudice than any other person in history."
Franz Boas 
 Franz Boas is often credited with the development of 'historical particularism', as well as 'cultural relativism.'
Franz Boas 
 Boas was a founding member of the American Anthropology Association (AAA) and served as one of the organization's first vice presidents.
Zapotec people 
 1998); "Zapotec" in The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes; Gale Research, Detroit, Michigan.
Esotericism 
 Esotericism studies Gnosticism, Yoga, Alchemy, Magic, Spiritualism, Hypnosis, Astrology, Meditation, Mysticism, and Occultism.
Esotericism 
 Many followers of Abrahamic faiths, particularly Christianity and Islam, have criticized Esotericism as black magic.
Jainism 
 Jainism is a religion originally from India that teaches that "all the events in the universe are self-caused, random, fixed and are independent of previous events or external causes or god": Jain philosophy is the oldest philosophy of India that distinguishes body (matter) from the soul (consciousness) completely.
Jainism 
 It teaches that the universe is eternal and that every living being has a soul which has the power to become all-knowing (observer of all the random events).
Jainism 
 Every soul is potentially divine, with innate qualities of infinite knowledge, perception, power, and bliss (masked by its karmas).
Jainism 
 The universe is self-regulated, with all the events self-caused, and every soul has the potential to achieve divine consciousness (siddha) through its own efforts.
Jainism 
 Therefore, Jainists think of every living being as themselves, harming no one and being kind to all living beings.
Jainism 
 When a soul is freed from karmas, it becomes free and attains divine consciousness, experiencing infinite knowledge, perception, power, and bliss.
Jainism 
 Right Faith, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct (triple gems of Jainism) provide the way to this realization.
Jainism 
 Praying by reciting this mantra, the devotee bows with respect to liberated souls still in human form (Arihantas), fully liberated souls (Siddhas), spiritual leaders (Acharyas), teachers (Upadyayas) and all the monks.
Jainism 
 By saluting them, Jains receive inspiration from them to follow their path to achieve true bliss and total freedom from the karmas binding their souls.
Jainism 
 This mantra serves as a simple gesture of deep respect towards beings who are more spiritually advanced.
Jainism 
 Jainism stresses on the importance of controlling the senses including the mind, as they can drag one far away from true nature of the soul.
Jainism 
 Non-possessiveness is the balancing of needs and desires while staying detached from our possessions.
Jainism 
 Enjoy the company of the holy and better qualified, be merciful to those afflicted souls and tolerate the perversely inclined.
Jainism 
 The goal of Jainism is liberation of the soul from the negative effects of unenlightened thoughts, speech and action.
Jainism 
 This goal is achieved through clearance of karmic obstructions by following the triple gems of Jainism.
Jainism 
 Jains mainly worship idols of Jinas, Arihants and Tirthankars, who have conquered the inner passions and attained divine consciousness.
Jainism 
 Jainism acknowledges the existence of powerful heavenly souls (Yaksha and Yakshini) that look after the well beings of Thirthankarars.
Jainism 
 Usually, they are found in pair around the idols of Jinas as male (yaksha) and female (yakshini) guardian deities.
Jainism 
 Even though they have supernatural powers, they are also wandering through the cycles of births and deaths just like most other souls.
Sect 
 Sects have many of the same beliefs and practices as the original group, but often have some different doctrines.
Caracal 
 Young caracals have red spots on the fur, but the only markings adults have are black spots above the eyes.
Caracal 
 A special part of the caracal body are its long black ears - the word "caracal" come from the Turkish word karakulak ("black ear").
Caracal 
 Their habitat is dry steppes (areas without trees, covered with grass or shrubs) and semi-deserts, but also can live in places similar to woodlands, savannas, and scrub forests.
Caracal 
 A caracal may live without drinking for a long time - they get the water from the body of the animals they eat.
Caracal 
 They prefer to eat only the external meat of the mammals they hunt, and do not eat the internal organs, and they also do not like eating fur.
Caracal 
 They can hunt birds very well; a caracal is able to snatch a bird in flight, sometimes more than one at a time.
Caracal 
 Caracals can jump and climb every well, which enables them to catch hyraxes better than any other carnivore.
Caracal 
 Because they can learn tricks and get accustomed to live with humans, caracals are sometimes kept as pets (especially in the United States and some European countries).
Caracal 
 Farmers in Africa do not like them, because sometimes they enter in farms and eat chickens and other animals.
Caracal 
 Drivers in countries where caracals live, for example, Kenya and Botswana, see many animals next to roads, but it is very rare a sighting of a caracal.
Eel 
 For a long time people did not know where eels came from, because baby eels look very different from adults.
Eel 
 This order has 4 suborders (smaller groups) called Anguilloidei, Nemichthyoidei, Congroidei, and Synaphobranchoidei.
Eel 
 In some classifications, the family Cyematidae of bobtail snipe eels is included in the Anguilliformes, but in the FishBase system that family is included in the order Saccopharyngiformes.
Eel 
 The electric eel of South America is not a true eel, but is a South American knifefish more closely related to the carps and catfishes.
Easter egg 
 The oldest tradition is to use painted chicken eggs, but today chocolate eggs wrapped in coloured foil, hand-carved wooden eggs, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as chocolate is used.
Easter egg 
 The church did not let people eat eggs during Holy Week, but chickens still laid eggs during that week.
Easter egg 
 An easter egg is also the name of something secret added in computer programs, such as a joke, a picture, or a message that can be uncovered.
Easter egg 
 Although there have been claims that Easter eggs came from the pagan symbols, there is no solid evidence for this.
Easter egg 
 At the Passover, a hard-boiled egg dipped in salt water is a symbol of both new life and the Passover sacrifice offered at the Temple in Jerusalem.
Easter egg 
 It was traditional to use up all of the eggs that they had before Lent began, and this also made the tradition of Pancake Day.
Easter egg 
 It is believed that for this reason many ancient cultures, including the Ancient Egyptians, Persians, and Romans, used eggs during their spring festivals.
Easter egg 
 In Eastern Christianity, both meat and dairy are still not allowed to be eaten during the fast, and eggs are seen as "dairy" too.
Lemur 
 Usually, the smaller lemurs are active at night (nocturnal), and the larger ones were active during the day (diurnal).
Lemur 
 Lemurs are endangered species because people destroy their habitat and used to hunt them, and perhaps still do so.
Lemur 
 Ring-tailed lemur, the most studied, are white and black with a ring tail The larger species are about 1.5 meters tall and weigh about 2 to 3.5 kilograms.
Lemur 
 They move quietly, usually at night, sometimes letting out eerie wailing cries, which some people think is the reason why they got their names.
Lemur 
 When a male lemur wants to scare another male away, he first rubs its tail on the smelly glands under its arms and then waves the tail in the other male's face.
Good Friday 
 It is observed to remember the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, his death, and his rising from the dead.
Good Friday 
 The estimated year of Good Friday is AD 33, by two different groups, and at first as AD 34 by Isaac Newton by the differences between the Biblical and Julian calendars.
Good Friday 
 At last, the high priest tells Jesus, "I adjure you, by the Living God, to tell us, are you the Anointed One, the Son of God?"
Good Friday 
 Jesus said yes: "You have said it, and in time you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty, coming on the clouds of Heaven."
Good Friday 
 They also said he tried to stop people from paying taxes to Caesar, and wanted to make himself a king ().
Good Friday 
 When he learned that Jesus was from Galilee, Pilate said that Jesus should be judged by the ruler of Galilee, King Herod.
Good Friday 
 It was a custom during the feast of Passover for the Romans to let one prisoner go free as requested by the Jews.
Good Friday 
 However, Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified so that the crowd would not get angry () and that he could keep his job.
Good Friday 
 Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Sanhedrin and secret follower of Jesus, who had not said yes to his death, went to Pilate.
Good Friday 
 Another secret follower of Jesus and member of the Sanhedrin named Nicodemus brought a mix of spices and helped wrap the body of Christ ().