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8 results for "festival"

U_1_08 Verified Art, Music & Culture

U_1_08 — Carnival, Festival, and Celebration

Carnival, festivals, and celebrations — periodic communal events characterized by heightened sensory experience, relaxation or inversion of social norms, shared feasting, music, costume, and collective joy — are universa

carnival festival celebration Mardi Gras Carnaval Diwali

A_1_10 Verified Foundations

A_1_10 — Marduk — Supreme Deity of Babylon and Dragon Slayer

Marduk (Sumerian: dAMAR.UTU, "Sun Calf of the Storm"; Akkadian: Marduk) is the patron deity of Babylon and, from the late 2nd millennium BCE onward, the supreme god of the Babylonian pantheon. Originally a minor city-god

Marduk Bel lord Babylon Esagila patron deity

A_1_07 Verified Foundations

A_1_07 — Enuma Elish — The Babylonian Creation Epic

The Enuma Elish ("When on high…") is the Babylonian creation epic — a cosmogonic poem of approximately 1,100 lines inscribed on seven clay tablets, composed ca. 1100 BCE (though likely drawing on older traditions back to

Enuma Elish Marduk Tiamat Babylonian creation Apsu Ea

ZH_5_24 Credible Archaeoastronomy

ZH_5_24 — Zoroastrian Astral Cosmology and Fire-Temple Astronomy

Zoroastrianism — one of the world's oldest continuously practiced religions, founded by Zarathustra (dates debated: c. 1500–600 BCE) in Greater Iran — embedded astronomical observation deeply into its cosmology, calendar

zoroastrian zoroastrianism avesta ahura mazda fire temple persian astronomy

ZH_5_08 Verified Archaeoastronomy

ZH_5_08 — Solstice and Equinox Traditions: Seasonal Markers Across Cultures

The solstices (longest and shortest days) and equinoxes (equal day and night) are the four cardinal points of the solar year — astronomically defined by the Sun reaching its maximum/minimum declination (solstices) or cro

solstice equinox seasonal marker winter solstice summer solstice Yule

D_2_03 Verified Sites & Artifacts

D_2_03 — Karnak Temple Complex — The Dwelling of Amun-Ra

The Karnak Temple Complex, located on the east bank of the Nile at ancient Thebes (modern Luxor, Upper Egypt), is the largest religious complex ever constructed — encompassing over 100 hectares of temples, chapels, pylon

Karnak Thebes Amun-Ra Hypostyle Hall obelisks pylons

Y_4_13 Verified Altered States

Y_4_13 — Collective Effervescence and Group Altered States

Collective effervescence — Émile Durkheim's term (The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, 1912) for the heightened emotional energy generated when people gather and act together in coordinated ritual — describes a group

collective effervescence Durkheim group ritual emotional contagion synchrony entrainment

C_5_20 Verified Global Traditions

C_5_20 — Seasonal Ritual Cycles: Solstice, Equinox, and Agricultural Festivals

Seasonal ritual cycles — religious festivals, agricultural ceremonies, and sacred observances tied to the solstices, equinoxes, and the transitional points between them — represent humanity's oldest continuous relationsh

solstice equinox seasonal ritual Wheel of the Year Saturnalia Yule

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