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    name from “witch-doctors, faith-healers, quacks, and charlatans” (The Sacred Disease 2). The name holds some form of religious or superstitious value since it includes the word ‘sacred’ in the title of the disease, yet “it has been regarded as a divine visitation by those who, being only human, view it with ignorance and astonishment” (The Sacred Disease 1). The idea that this disease is sacred by any manner is quickly dismissed as a hoax by the witch-doctors to make themselves seem more pious

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    “The Starry Night,” one of the many paintings by Vincent van Gogh, is by far one of his most well known artworks. When looking at this painting, the viewer is submerged in color and motion as the eye travels around the iconic landscape. Not only is it visually pleasing, it has emotion and spiritual ties to the artist himself. Van Gogh’s lack of evangelical ministry as well as his dwindling mental state was a force of reconciliation within his artwork, and the outcome was magnificent. “The Starry

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    of the games. Once there, the torch is used to light a cauldron that remains lit until it is extinguished in the Closing Ceremony. However, fire was part of the Olympics for the Anchient Greece. The anchient Greeks always considered fire to be a divine element, and they kept

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    sun's penis. The patient claimed that this is where wind comes from. This story proves relevant to archetypal symbols because mythological studies done by Albrecht Dietrich, a German philologist and religious scholar, found a ritual that depicts the sun as a god. The passage was found in the Greek papyrus and describes the sun god as having a tube like structure of light coming from it. Ironically the structure of light’s purpose is to create the wind, just as the schizophrenic patient expressed. With

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    God of the Israelites: the way problems are solved, the prestige and status that separates the divine from the masses, and the extent of power among the immortal beings. Before any logical argument regarding the contrasting of two works can begin, a foundation must be established that in some way

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    inexhaustibly about his wonderful birth from a virgin, his demise on the cross, and his revival. All their prediction focuses to Christ and closures with Christ. To Gentiles, Christ is stupidity. They ridicule Christians yet neglect to see the habit of their divine beings and symbols. They say that Christians hold to a conviction unfitting of a God, to be specific, that a God would degrade himself to enter creation. In any case, Saint Athanasius composes, if Gentiles tune in to their logicians, who hold that

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    blown around by violent winds. Dante selected this punishment for the desirers of lust because the winds represent the restless desire for the lustful. Their fleshly pleasures symbolize this wind. These winds never let the condemned souls find peace and rest, meaning that lustful desires will never lead to a life filled with peace and content. “I reached a place where every light is muted, which bellows like the sea beneath a tempest, when it is battered by opposing winds. The hellish hurricane,

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    THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS WINDS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FROM CHARLES I TO OLIVER CROMWELL The Restoration, a period of constantly changing ideals, shows how the change in government from Charles I to Oliver Cromwell affected the people of that time, shows the Child of Hope, shows the shift in winds of religion, compares and contrasts Absolutism and Constitutionalism, shows how the influence of the English people on the world, and shows a new era being heralded in without which we would not

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    Introduction The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli was painted between 1482 and 1485 (UFFIZI, n.d.). Commissioned by the Medici family, it depicts Venus floating on a seashell. To her right is Zephyrus, God of Winds, with Aura. To her left is Horae, Goddess of the Seasons, waiting to receive her with a flower embroidered robe. In the Roman myth, Venus was conceived when the god Uranus was castrated by his son Titan Cronus and his severed genitals fertilized the sea. The scene in The Birth of Venus

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    to emphasize the unrighteousness of Macbeth and his crimes. Around the Elizabethan era, the people believed in a great deal of supernatural elements, one of these being the great chain of being. The concept was first derived by Christians as God's Divine Order. The people believed that there was a natural hierarchy in the universe, from the most basic elements to the highest supremacy. Each creature has their place among this chain. Inanimate and soulless objects were considered to be lowest and the

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