27 résultats pour "spirits"
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Spiritisme et Occultisme
trois millions de spirites. Dès 1852, la vague avait conta miné l'Angleterre, puis l'Allemagne et la France. Dans ce dernier pays, le spiritisme recrutait des adeptes aussi célèbres que le préhistorien Boucher de Perthes, le pro fesseur Charles Richet, l'écrivain Victorien Sardou, l'as tronome Camille Flammarion. Dans sa maison de Guer nesey, Victor Hugo entrait en communication avec les plus illustres personnages de l'histoire, qui, curieusement, s'e...
- spiritisme - occultisme.
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Spiritisme (analyse et critique de la doctrine)
On ne peut pas avoir commerce avec les esprits -~[·]~· Seule l'expérience nous fournit des connaissances fondées en raison. Aucune expérience spirite ne s'est avérée objectivement concluante. Le spiritisme est une perversion névrotique de la raison. La raison doit Sw edenborg , i l engage Le spiritisme établir ses limites l'entende ment à fonder a une origine K ant , dans Rêves d'un «une science des limites névrotique visionnaire expl...
- Définition et citations: ANTI-SPIRITE, adjectif.
- Lemures Roman Ghosts of the dead, malignant or mischievous spirits who returned to Earth to terrify the living.
- Lar (plural: Lares) Roman Ancient Roman spirits of the dead.
- Moirae (Moirai) Greek Greek spirits; personification of fate and destiny in an individual's life.
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underworld (1) Greek The black abyss known
as Hades and the dwelling place of the dead.
Earth. By the middle of the third century b.c., Dis Pater and Proserpina had also become the rulers of the realm of dead spirits. Together they became an official part of the Roman religious ceremonies. Beginning in 249 b.c., Romans held games known as the Ludi Tarentini or Tarentine Games, to recognize, honor, and appease these two gods. Much of the mythology of Dis Pater and Proserpina had by this time taken on the stories of the Greek gods Hades (or Pluto) and Persephone, who ruled over a rea...
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Native American Religions.
In the worldview of most of the indigenous peoples of North America, there were also spiritual beings to be avoided. Native Americans of the Southwest in particular,such as the Navajo and Apache, dreaded contact with ghosts, who were believed to resent the living. These peoples disposed of the bodies of deceased relativesimmediately and attempted to distance themselves from the spirits of the dead, avoiding their burial sites, never mentioning their names, and even abandoning thedwellings in whi...
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Asian Theater
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INTRODUCTION
Asian Theater, live performance, featuring actors or puppets, native to Asia, a continent with more than 2 billion people of many nations and cultures.
III THEATER IN EAST ASIA Theater in East Asia includes the traditions of China, Japan, and Korea. Most Chinese theater is urban, secular (nonreligious) entertainment, influenced by the ethics of Confucianism. However, a belief in spirits influences rituals performed by ethnic minorities in China, and Buddhism dominates traditional Tibetan performance. Japanesedramatic forms combine native shamanistic performance, secular entertainment, and cultural or religious influences from China and Kore...
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Religion.
By the end of the 19th century, scholars were making religion an object of systematic inquiry. Müller’s comparative approach was adopted in many European andJapanese universities, and as a result the common features of world religions (such as gods, prayer, priesthood, and creation myths) were the subjects of sustainedscholarly investigation. In addition, field anthropologists had begun to compile firsthand accounts of the religions of peoples who previously had been dismissed assavages. The stu...
- Manes (Good Ones) Roman The spirits of the dead.
- satyrs Greek One of a class of woodland and mountain spirits attendant on Dionysus.
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Inuit.
VII HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, AND CLOTHING Inuit homes are of two kinds: walrus or sealskin tents for summer and huts or houses for winter. Winter houses are usually made of stone, with a driftwood orwhalebone frame, chinked and covered with moss or sod. The entrance is a long, narrow passage just high enough to admit a person crawling on hands and knees.During long journeys some Canadian Inuit build igloos, winter houses of snow blocks piled in a dome shape (the term igloo comes from the I...
- ker (plural: Keres) Greek Female spirits that represented a person's death or perhaps destiny.
- Penates Roman Each household had two Penates, spirits or gods who protected the family storeroom.
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Peut-on communiquer avec les esprits ?
On ne peut pas avoir commerce avec les esprits -~[·]~· Seule l'expérience nous fournit des connaissances fondées en raison. Aucune expérience spirite ne s'est avérée objectivement concluante. Le spiritisme est une perversion névrotique de la raison. La raison doit Sw edenborg , i l engage Le spiritisme établir ses limites l'entende ment à fonder a une origine K ant , dans Rêves d'un «une science des limites névrotique visionnaire expl...
- nymphs (young maidens) Greek Minor female spirits who were supposed to inhabit various places in the natural world.
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Native American Art.
folding, braiding or weaving, could also be sewn onto the hide. The production of decorated clothing and bags increased after contact with Europeans as a greater variety of textiles and other materials became available throughtrade. Imported glass beads inspired native women, who quickly adapted quillwork techniques for the creation of beaded apparel. European curvilinear and floraldesigns of the 19th century proved as meaningful for the native women who worked with them as they were for the non...
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Dance
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Dance
Archive Films/BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
features in its dance styles. The ordinary potential of the body can be expanded in dance, usually through long periods of specialized training. In ballet, for example, the dancer exercises to rotate,or turn out, the legs at the hips, making it possible to lift the leg high in an arabesque. In India, some dancers learn to choreograph their eyeballs and eyebrows.Costuming can extend the body's capabilities. Toe or pointe shoes, stilts, and flying harnesses are a few of the artificial aids employe...
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The different phases resulting from culture changes, illustrated by my personal experience
2 U-curve of adjustment. The idea is quite simple: if the level of adjustment, adaptation and well-being over time is drawn, a U- shape appears. Upon tasting the new culture he is in good spirits, but gradually encounters more and more problems eventually leading to the lowest point of despair and disappointment. In the middle of the crisis (cultur e shock), there seems to be no way out. The student has hit the botto...
- Day of the Dead.
- Dialectique de la nature
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From Paradise Lost, Book I - anthology.
At once as far as angels ken he viewsThe dismal situation waste and wild,A dungeon horrible, on all sides roundAs one great furnace flamed, yet from those flamesNo light, but rather darkness visibleServed only to discover sights of woe,Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peaceAnd rest can never dwell, hope never comesThat comes to all; but torture without endStill urges, and a fiery deluge, fedWith ever-burning sulphur unconsumed:Such place Eternal Justice had preparedFor those rebellious,...
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Excerpt from Mansfield Park - anthology.
arranged round the other. It was a fine arrangement for Henry Crawford, who was close to Fanny, and with his hands full of business, having two persons' cards tomanage as well as his own—for though it was impossible for Fanny not to feel herself mistress of the rules of the game in three minutes, he had yet to inspirit herplay, sharpen her avarice, and harden her heart, which, especially in any competition with William, was a work of some difficulty; and as for Lady Bertram, he mustcontinue in c...
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Native Americans of North America.
addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...
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Native Americans of North America - Canadian History.
addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...