Mieszko II
Mieszko II or Mieczyslaw II, 990-1034, king of Poland (1025-34), son and successor of Boleslaus I. His reign was marked by internal and external strife. Moravia was lost to Bohemia, Lusatia to Germany, and sections of Ruthenia to Kiev. The kingdom was in chaos when it passed to his son, Casimir I .
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Author Explores Religious Conflicts
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 3/30/2004; 700+ words
; ...beliefs in the nature of deities. The God of the Old Testament...making offerings to other deities. In Rome, pagans added...Alexander the Great adopted deities as he conquered territory, claiming the Egyptian god, Amon, as one of his heavenly...
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A BEACON IN THE DESERT ON A 200-FOOT PINNACLE IN SUDAN, BOSTON ARCHAEOLOGIST FINDS A PHARAOH'S GILDED SHRINE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/14/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...s head, the ancient Egyptian symbol of royal authority...viewed by the ancient Egyptians and Kushites as a massive...former curator of the Egyptian department at the Boston...place, and the ancient Egyptians believed it was the...abode of their supreme deity, the ram-headed Amon-ra. ...
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Sunken treasures.(UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...recovering and restoring Egyptian artefacts that had lain...several Greek and Egyptian deities, most likely Osiris and Apis, an Egyptian bull god. Its size...it's the largest Egyptian statue of a deity ever found; Right...outside the temple of Amon in Herakleion, lie...
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African foundations of world religions
Magazine article from: New African; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...expression in the Ancient Egyptian Tekhen (Obelisk) legends...Amen and their chief deity Osiris. (Note: All references to Egypt or Egyptian in this article means Ancient Egypt). For the Egyptians, the obelisks were...union with the sky, in Egyptian terms Geb's phallus...language. Its ...
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Jewel on the Nile; In Cairo, a Faithful Re-creation of an Egyptian Village
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/12/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...vanished from the Egyptian landscape, were...religion in the Egyptians' daily lives...masterful figure of Amon, "king of the...represented the Egyptians' great respect...faithful wife. The Egyptians, in their mythology...tail. A popular deity, Bes protected...practice still used in ...
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Egypt to Move Pharaonic Temple due to Ground Water
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 7/12/1999; 460 words
; Egyptian Minister of Culture...estimated to cost 20 million Egyptian pounds (5.88 million...ancient Egypt's chief deity, Amon. It also hosted statues of Amon's wife, Mut, the...maintained Pharaonic deities to appease their conquered...
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Click for a ride to the Land of the Pharaohs, BUSINESS TIMES
Newspaper article from: Business Times (Malaysia); 6/27/2000; ; 604 words
; ...find out about ancient Egyptian gods, join in an Egyptology...summaries of notable Egyptian gods. Check out Website...spellings of this god are Amon, Amun, Ammon and Amoun...and he was the patron deity of the city of Thebes...all this information on Egyptian gods boring, there are...
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Parental love as metaphor for divine-human love
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the eighteenth dynasty Egyptian queen Hatchepsut (1504...she was the daughter of Amon-Re. In graphic detail...conception. Here we learn that Amon-Re had a romantic encounter...her. . . . "Khnemet-Amon-Hatshepsut shall be...or be named for a given deity (e.g. Marduk-Apal...
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In review: Boston
Magazine article from: Opera News; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...composer conceived of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten as the...languages: biblical Hebrew, Egyptian and Akkadian (the pronunciation...worship of the abstract deity derived from the disc...in the tenor role of Amon, the high priest who...magic bells, became Egyptian gods with the heads of...
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Creation Stories of the Middle East.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Folklore; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Hebrews, and Arabs; and finally including Egyptians. Do these peoples have any one cosmological...monotheism, or the worship of a single deity, all other gods must die (p. 25...order to have monotheism all the other deities except the `one and only' must be annihilated...identified with Ishtar and, much ...
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Amon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Amon , Ammon , or Amen , Egyptian deity. He was originally the chief god...were the divine Theban triad of deities. Amon grew increasingly important in Egypt...Ra; see Ra ) became the supreme deity. He was identified with the Greek...
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Amun
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Amun ( Amon ) Ancient Egyptian deity of reproduction or the animating force. The ‘invisible...and a twin-feathered crown. He gradually assimilated other Egyptian gods, becoming Amun-Ra (the supreme creator). During the...
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Egyptian religion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...certain parts of Egyptian religious life...beliefs of the Egyptians were riddled with...consistent picture of Egyptian religion, and...venerated many deities, that those gods...gods. In that way Amon became Egypt's most prominent deity, and by similar...the syncretism of ...
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Heliopolis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...worship, and its god Ra or Re was the state deity until Thebes became capital (c.2100 BC). The god Amon was then joined with Ra as Amon-Ra or Amon-Re (see Egyptian religion ). Under the New Empire (c...
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Karnak
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...constructed. In ancient Egyptian, Karnak means "the most...Dedicated to the sun deity Amon-Ra (also Amun-Re...the center of worship for Amon-Ra. The remains of temples...devotees of the ram-headed Amon-Ra also found the area...
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