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Thirteen people, pledged to eliminate triskaidekaphobia, fear of the number 13, today tried to reassure American sufferers by renting a 13 ft plot of land in Brooklyn ... Triskaidekaphobia is from Greek treiskaideka, triskaideka, thirteen (treis, three + kai, and + deka, ten) + phobos, fear. Some famous triskaidekaphobes1:
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Miasma (Greek mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, a miasma is a contagious power that has an independent life of its own. Until purged by the sacrificial death of the wrongdoer, society would be chronically infected by catastrophe...
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2. Greece--Religion...in Greek Mythology and Ritual , Berkeley, 1979...Criminal Law in Ancient Greece , Berkeley, 1927...and Madness in Ancient Greece , Cornell, 1978... ... Read the complete book Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion by becoming a questia.com member.
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The most important new primary evidence 1 is that published by M. H. Jameson, D. R. Jordan, R. D. Kotansky, A Lex Sacra from Selinous, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Monographs, 11 ( 1993). Side A of the new text (of the mid-fifth century BC?) that they present prescribes sacrifice (after a death, or killing?) to,
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In Greek mythology, Cynosura, a nurse of Zeus and a nymph of Mount Ida, metamorphosed into Ursa Minor (Latin "smaller bear"), the constellation also referred to as Cynosure (OED 1596), a word that immediately took on figurative uses, one of which means ... 15. miasma: from New Latin miasma, from Greek miasma ("pollution"):
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"Above it no winged creatures could ever wing their way with impunity, so lethal was the miasma which went fuming up from its black throat to the vault of heaven: wherefore the Greeks called it Avernus, the Birdless Place." (Virgil, Aeneid 6.239).
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In the 22, 23, and 24 September in the Palace Music of Thessalonica and in 26 and 27 September in the Herodion in Athens the team will present Martha Graham’s choreographies, inspired from the Greek mythology. ... miasma (1)
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encompasses the collection of beliefs and rituals practiced in Ancient Greece in form of Cult Practices , thus the practical counterpart of Greek Mythology . Within the Greek ... But for all, it was important to avoid doing anything that would introduce miasma or pollution into one's personal life and into the household.
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