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6 results for "Saint Brendan"

F_1_19 Speculative Lost Connections

F_1_19 — Irish Monks in America: The Brendan Voyage and Pre-Columbian North Atlantic Contacts

The hypothesis that Irish monks reached Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and possibly North America before the Norse has a foundation in medieval literary, place-name, and archaeological evidence, though the most ambitious cl

Saint Brendan Navigatio Irish monks pre-Columbian contact North Atlantic Iceland

A_3_09 Verified Foundations

A_3_09 — Ethiopian Sacred Texts Beyond the Kebra Nagast

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church preserves the most expansive biblical canon in Christendom — 81 books, compared to 66 in the Protestant canon and 73 in the Roman Catholic canon — including texts considered apocryp

Ethiopian Ge'ez Ethiopic Book of Jubilees 1 Enoch Fetha Nagast

W_3_05 Credible World Civilizations

W_3_05 — Haitian Vodou and Afro-Diasporic Syncretic Religions

Afro-Diasporic religions — including Haitian Vodou, Cuban Santería (Regla de Ocha), Brazilian Candomblé, and related traditions — represent one of the most extraordinary examples of cultural survival and creative synthes

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W_5_04 Verified World Civilizations

W_5_04 — Sufi Mysticism and Islamic Esotericism

Sufism (Arabic: tasawwuf) — the mystical/esoteric dimension of Islam — represents one of humanity's most profound traditions of direct experiential knowledge of the Divine (ma'rifa/gnosis). While orthodox Islam emphasize

Sufism tasawwuf mysticism dhikr fana baqa

ZD_2_16 Credible Information & Computation

ZD_2_16 — Federated Learning & Privacy-Preserving ML

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm in which a model is trained across multiple decentralized devices or servers holding local data samples, without exchanging the raw data — the model comes to the dat

federated learning privacy-preserving machine learning differential privacy Google Brendan McMahan data privacy

Y_3_10 Verified Altered States

Y_3_10 — Fasting, Asceticism, and Altered Consciousness

Fasting and ascetic practices — deliberate deprivation of food, sleep, comfort, or sensory input — have been used across virtually all religious and spiritual traditions to induce altered states of consciousness, visions

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