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8 July 2025

  • 21:0821:08, 8 July 2025 Kitab al-Aghani (hist | edit) [7,983 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{italic title}} {{Short description|Arabic encyclopedic collection of poems and songs}} {{Infobox book | name = Kitab al-Aghani | title_orig = كتاب الأغاني | translator = | image = Kitab al-Aghani 01 (cropped).jpg | caption = Illustration from Kitab al-Aghani (1216-20) | author = Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani | country = Abbasid Caliphate | language = Arabic | subject = Arabic poetry and songs | genre...")
  • 21:0721:07, 8 July 2025 Geʽez (hist | edit) [69,160 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Ancient Semitic language of Eritrea and Ethiopia}} {{redirect|Geʽez language|the various languages spoken in Ethiopia|Languages of Ethiopia}} {{About|the language|the writing script|Geʽez script}} {{Infobox language | name = Ge{{ayin}}ez | nativename = {{lang|gez|ግዕዝ}} ''{{transliteration|sem|Gə{{ayin}}(ə)z}}'' | pronunciation = {{IPA|gez|ˈɡɨʕ(ɨ)z|}} | states = Eritrea, Ethiopia | extinct...")
  • 21:0621:06, 8 July 2025 Kalah (hist | edit) [8,513 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Board game in the mancala family}} {{for multi|the village in Iran|Kalah, Iran|other uses|Kala (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox mancala |ranks= Two |sowing= Single lap |image= Kalaha.jpg |region= United States, United Kingdom }} '''Kalah''' is a modern variation in the ancient Mancala family of games. The Kalah board was first patented and sold in the United States by William Julius Champion, Jr. in the 1950s.<ref name = "Elliott A...")
  • 21:0621:06, 8 July 2025 Toguz korgool (hist | edit) [4,824 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Game}} thumb|300px|Souvenir wood board for Toguz korgool game '''Toguz korgool'''<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=UNESCO|title=Traditional intelligence and strategy game: Togyzqumalaq, Toguz Korgool, Mangala/Göçürme|url=https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/traditional-intelligence-and-strategy-game-togyzqumalaq-toguz-korgool-mangala-gocurme-01597}}</ref> ({{langx|ky|тогуз коргоол – "nine sheep droppings"}}) is...")
  • 21:0521:05, 8 July 2025 Southeast Asian mancala (hist | edit) [12,759 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Count-and-capture board game}} thumb|The {{lang|id|Congklak}} Gameboard from Indonesia {{circa|1900}} '''Southeast Asian mancalas''' are a subtype of mancala games predominantly found in Southeast Asia. They are known as '''congkak''' in Malaysia; '''congklak''' (VOS Spelling: '''tjongklak'''), '''congkak''', '''congka''', and '...")
  • 21:0521:05, 8 July 2025 Bao (game) (hist | edit) [15,147 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Board game}} {{Infobox Mancala |title= Bao |ranks= Four |image=Bao players in stone town zanzibar.jpg |caption=Bao players in Stone Town, Zanzibar |sowing= Multilap |region= East Africa }} '''Bao''' is a traditional mancala board game played in most of East Africa including Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Comoros, Malawi, as well as some areas of DR Congo and Burundi.<ref>H...")
  • 21:0421:04, 8 July 2025 CHREST (hist | edit) [21,445 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''CHREST''' (Chunk Hierarchy and REtrieval STructures) is a symbolic cognitive architecture based on the concepts of limited attention, limited short-term memories, and chunking. The architecture takes into low-level aspects of cognition such as reference perception, long and short-term memory stores, and methodology of problem-solving <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=CHREST - Chessprogramming wiki |url=https://www.chessprogramming.org/CHRE...")
  • 21:0421:04, 8 July 2025 Asceticism (hist | edit) [99,003 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Lifestyle of frugality and abstinence}} {{redirect|Ascetic|the emphasis of art and beauty|Aestheticism|and|Aesthetics}} {{multiple image | direction = horizontal | width1 = 154 | width2 = 100 | footer = Pursuing enlightenment, the historical Buddha first practiced severe asceticism before recommending a moderated "Middle Way".<ref name="Laumakis 2023">{{cite book |author-last=Laumakis |author-fi...")
  • 21:0321:03, 8 July 2025 Zakat (hist | edit) [59,573 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Form of almsgiving obligatory in Islam}} {{distinguish|Zagat}} {{Other uses|Zakat (disambiguation)}} {{Islam|practices}} {{Aqidah|Five Pillars}} thumb|313x313px|Zakat spending as per the Quran on 8 categories of people thumb|[[Silver or gold coinage is one way of granting zakat.]] '''Zakat''' (or '''Zakāh''' زكاة) is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. Zakat is the...")
  • 21:0221:02, 8 July 2025 Spiritual direction (hist | edit) [18,308 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Attempt to deepen, as a guide, another's relationship with the divine}} '''Spiritual direction''' is the practice of being with people as they attempt to deepen their relationship with the divine, or to learn and grow in their personal spirituality. The person seeking direction shares stories of their encounters of the divine, or how they are cultivating a life attuned to spiritual things. The director listens and asks questions to...")
  • 21:0221:02, 8 July 2025 Murshid (hist | edit) [2,951 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Italic title}} {{Short description|Term used in Sufism for a spiritual guide}} {{Sufism}} '''''Murshid''''' ({{langx|ar|مرشد}}) is Arabic for "guide" or "teacher", derived from the root ''r-sh-d'', with the basic meaning of having integrity, being sensible, mature.<ref>See Hans Wehr's ''Arabic Dictionary'', 4th ed., s.v. rašada.</ref> Particularly in Sufism it refers to a spiritual guide. The term is frequently used in Sufi orders such a...")
  • 21:0121:01, 8 July 2025 Tariqa (hist | edit) [13,194 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Order of Sufism}} {{Italic title}} {{Sufism|Topics in Sufism}} A '''''tariqa''''' ({{Langx|ar|طريقة|translit=ṭarīqa}}) is a religious order of Sufism, or specifically a concept for the mystical teaching and spiritual practices of such an order with the aim of seeking {{Transliteration|ar|haqiqa}}, which translates as "ultimate truth".<ref>Tariqa, Britannica.</ref> A tariqa has a {{Transliteration|ar|murshid}} (guide) who plays...")
  • 21:0021:00, 8 July 2025 Mouride (hist | edit) [46,489 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Sufi mystic order in Sunni Islam}} {{Sunni Islam|Sunni Orders of Mysticism}} {{Sufism|Orders}} The '''Mouride brotherhood''' ({{langx|wo|yoonu murit}}, {{langx|ar|الطريقة المريدية}} ''aṭ-Ṭarīqat al-Murīdiyyah'' or simply {{lang|ar|المريدية}}, ''al-Murīdiyyah'') is a large ''tariqa'' (Sufi order) most prominent in Senegal and The Gambia with headquarters in the city of Touba, which is a holy ci...")
  • 20:5920:59, 8 July 2025 Talibe (hist | edit) [20,619 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|West African youth studying the Quran at a daara}} {{For|similar terms|Talib (disambiguation)}} thumb|right|Two talibés boys in [[Vélingara, Senegal.]] A '''talibé''' (also spelled ''talibe'', plural ''talibés''; {{langx|ar|طالب|ṭālib|seeker}}, 'student'; pl. {{lang|ar|طلاب}} {{transliteration|ar|ṭullāb}}) is a boy, usually from Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Chad, M...")
  • 20:5820:58, 8 July 2025 Set (deity) (hist | edit) [38,377 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Egyptian god of the desert, storms, violence, and foreigners}} {{about|the Egyptian deity|the third son of Adam and Eve|Seth||Set (disambiguation)|and|Seth (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox deity | type = Egyptian | name = Set | image = Set.svg | enemy = Horus | hiero = <hiero>s t:S E20 </hiero> or <hiero>sw-W-t:X-E20-A40</hiero> or <hiero>s-t:S</hiero> or <hiero>z:t:X</hiero> | cult_center = Ombos, Avaris, Sepermeru | symbol = Was...")
  • 20:5720:57, 8 July 2025 Siwa Oasis (hist | edit) [48,362 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox settlement <!--See the Table at Infobox settlement for all fields and descriptions of usage--> <!-- Basic info -->| name = Siwa Oasis | native_name = {{lang|ar|واحة سيوة}} | settlement_type = | image_skyline = {{Photomontage | photo1a = يوم جديد.jpg | photo2a = Siwa lake.jpg | photo2b = بيوت.jpg | photo3a = Siwa oasis - Egypt.jpg | photo3b = Lake Aftnas in Siwa.jpg | size = 275 | spacing = 2 | color = transparent...")
  • 20:5620:56, 8 July 2025 Sign of Tanit (hist | edit) [4,797 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Anthropomorphic symbol of Punic goddess Tanit}} __NOTOC__ thumb|right The '''sign of Tanit''' or '''sign of Tinnit''' is an anthropomorph symbol of the Punic goddess Tanit, present on many archaeological remains of the Carthaginian civilization. The symbol has many variants, but the basic form consists of a disc on top of a triangle, separated by a horizon...")
  • 20:5520:55, 8 July 2025 Tophet (hist | edit) [40,796 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Carthaginian child sacrifice sites and cemeteries}} In the Hebrew Bible, '''Tophet''' or '''Topheth''' ({{langx|hbo|תֹּפֶת|Tōp̄eṯ}}; {{langx|grc|Ταφέθ|taphéth}}; {{langx|la|Topheth}}) is a location in Jerusalem in the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna), where worshipers engaged in a ritual involving "passing a child through the fire", most likely child sacrifice. Traditionally, the sacrifices have been ascribed to a god named [...")
  • 20:5520:55, 8 July 2025 Baal Hammon (hist | edit) [9,251 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Chief god in ancient Carthaginian religion}} {{Infobox deity | type = Canaanite | name = Baʿal Ḥammon | image = Terracotta statue of Baal-Hammon on a throne AvL.JPG | alt = | caption = Statue of Baʿal Hammon on his throne with a crown and flanked by sphinges, 1st century. | god_of = Weather and Vegetative Fertility<br/>King of the Gods | abode = | symbol = | consort = Tanit...")
  • 20:5420:54, 8 July 2025 Apotropaic magic (hist | edit) [30,525 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences}} thumb|265px|Medieval apotropaic marking on the inside of a church in Suffolk, England {{Magic sidebar|Forms}} {{Anthropology of religion|Basic}} '''Apotropaic magic''' (From {{langx|grc|ἀποτρέπω|apotrépō|lit=to ward off}}) or '''protective magic''' is a type of magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences,...")
  • 20:5320:53, 8 July 2025 Evil eye (hist | edit) [86,857 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Curse brought by a malevolent glare}} {{Other uses|Evil Eye (disambiguation)}} thumb|[[Nazar (amulet)|Eye beads are one of many popular amulets and talismans used to ward off the evil eye.]] The '''evil eye''' is a supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare, usually inspired by envy.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/2018...")
  • 20:5220:52, 8 July 2025 Ankh (hist | edit) [25,058 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol}} {{good article}} thumb|251x251px|The ankh has a [[T-shape topped by a droplet-shaped loop.]] The '''ankh''' or '''key of life''' is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol used to represent the word for "life" and, by extension, as a symbol of life itself. The ankh has a T-shape topped by a droplet-shaped loop. It...")
  • 20:5120:51, 8 July 2025 Aurès Mountains (hist | edit) [4,737 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Mountain range in Algeria}} {{Infobox mountain | name= Aures Mountains<br/>{{lang|ar|جبال الأوراس}} | other_name= | photo= Hammam Essalhine Aquae Flaviane Khenchela Mont View 2.jpg | photo_size= 275 | photo_caption= Mountain landscape at Hammam Essalihine | country= Algeria | subdivision1_type= Provinces | subdivision1= {{hlist|Batna|Tebessa|Khenchela|Oum El Bouaghi Pr...")
  • 20:5120:51, 8 July 2025 Abdallah al-Tijani (hist | edit) [8,261 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|14th-century Moroccan official and author}} '''Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Tijānī'''{{sfn|Brett|1976|p=41}} ({{floruit}} 1275–1311) was a chancery official and author in the Hafsid Caliphate. He is best known for his ''Riḥla'', an account of his travels in 1306–1309 and a detailed description of the land between Tunis and Tripoli.{{sfn|Plessner|El Achèche|2000}} ==Life== Al-Tijānī's...")
  • 20:5020:50, 8 July 2025 Laguatan (hist | edit) [3,749 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Laguatan''' ({{langx|ar|لواتة|translit=Lawātah}}) was a Berber clan that inhabited the Cyrenaica area during the Roman period.<ref>{{harvtxt|Wickham|2007|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ev8mb_Inv5sC&pg=PA333 333]}}, ''citing'' Synesios, ''Correspondance, nn. 107-8, 125, 132 (aa. 405-12)</ref> They have been described as primarily raiders and nomadic,<ref>{{harvtxt|Sjöström|1993|p=27}}, ''citing'' {{harvtxt|Brogan|1975|...")
  • 20:4920:49, 8 July 2025 Kusaila (hist | edit) [12,690 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|King of Altava until 688}} {{Infobox monarch | name = Kusaila Ibn Malzam | title = King of Altava | image = | succession = King of Altava | reign = ? - 688 | coronation = | predecessor = Sekerdid | successor = | succession1 = | reign1 = | reign-type1 = | predecessor1 = | successor2 = | full name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date...")
  • 20:4820:48, 8 July 2025 Numidia (hist | edit) [47,413 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Berber kingdom in North Africa from 202 BC to 46 AD}} {{About|the ancient kingdom|the Roman province|Numidia (Roman province)|the Pennsylvanian CDP|Numidia, Pennsylvania|the Algerian brand of olive oil|Numidia (olive oil)}} {{Redirect|Numidian|the language|Numidian language}} {{Not to be confused with|Nubia}}{{Infobox country | conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Numidia | common_name = Numidia | native_name = | image_flag...")
  • 20:4720:47, 8 July 2025 Cathedral of Saint Vincent de Paul (hist | edit) [5,463 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox religious building |name = Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul |image = Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul.jpg |image_size = 250px |caption = Façade of the cathedral |building_name = Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul |location = Tunis, Tunisia |geo = {{coord|36|48|0|N|10|10|44|E|source:itwiki_region:TN_type:landmark|display=it}} |religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic Church |rite = Roman Rite |region = |province = Archdiocese of Tunis |functiona...")
  • 20:4120:41, 8 July 2025 Rhea Silvia (hist | edit) [14,194 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Mythical mother of Romulus and Remus}} {{For|the crater on Vesta|Rheasilvia}} {{Infobox deity | type = Roman | name = Rhea Silvia | image = Rhea Silvia by Jacopo della Quercia - Santa Maria della Scalla (from Fonte Gaia) - Siena 2016.jpg | caption = Statue in the Fonte Gaia | abode = Tiber | consort = Mars, Tiberinus | parents = Numitor (in Livy's account) | children = Romulus and Remus }}File...")
  • 20:0320:03, 8 July 2025 Yi Hong (hist | edit) [5,323 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|South Korean model and entertainer (b. 1974)}} {{family name hatnote|Yi||lang=Korean}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Yi Hong | suc-type = | spouse = Han Yŏng-kwang (2000–2002) | issue = A daughter | royal house = House of Yi | posthumous name = | father = Yi Seok | mother = Donkgo Jeonghui | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1974}} | birth_place = Seoul, South Ko...")
  • 19:4119:41, 8 July 2025 Shrines to Mary, mother of Jesus (hist | edit) [46,306 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Typically Catholic shrines}} thumb|right|Façade of the [[Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy]] {{Catholic Mariology sidebar}} A '''shrine to the Virgin Mary''', or '''Marian shrine''', is a shrine marking an apparition or other miracle ascribed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a site on which is centered a historically strong Blessed Virgin Mary|Mar...")
  • 19:4019:40, 8 July 2025 Sant'Eustachio (hist | edit) [19,277 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Roman Catholic basilica, a landmark of Rome, Italy}} {{Infobox church | name = Sant'Eustachio | fullname = Basilica of Saint Eustace | native_name = Basilica di Sant'Eustachio | native_name_lang = it | image = Basilique Sant'Eustachio.JPG | caption = View of the Basilica Sant'Eustachio | coordinates = {{Coord|41.8987|12.4757|display=it|region:IT-RM_type:landmar...")
  • 19:3819:38, 8 July 2025 Santa Maria Maggiore (hist | edit) [59,450 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Catholic basilica and landmark in Rome, Italy}} {{redirect|Saint Mary Major||Santa Maria Maggiore (disambiguation)|and|Saint Mary Major (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox church | name = Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore | fullname = Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major | native_name = {{unbulleted list|{{native name|it|Basilica Papale di Santa Maria Maggiore}}|{{native name|la|Basilica Sanctae Mariae Maioris}}|{{native name|la|B...")
  • 19:3119:31, 8 July 2025 Rolandas Makrickas (hist | edit) [12,998 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Lithuanian Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1972)}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific-prefix = His Eminence | name = Rolandas Makrickas | honorific-suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | title = Cardinal<br />Archpriest of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore | image = Rolandas makrickas-4 (edit).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | church = | archdiocese = | province = | m...")
  • 18:1818:18, 8 July 2025 Yi Seok (hist | edit) [19,969 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|South Korean pretender to the throne (born 1941)}} {{family name hatnote|Yi||lang=Korean}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Yi Seok {{nobold | {{Ubl | {{native name|ko|이석|italics=no|paren=omit}} }}}} | spouse = Dokko Jeonghui (divorced)<ref name=hong>{{Cite news|url=http://ekr.chosunonline.com/site/data/html_dir/2007/03/02/2007030263000.html|title=韓国皇室の末裔イ・ホン、3・1節に父とテレビ出演|newspaper=朝鮮...")
  • 18:1718:17, 8 July 2025 Yi Bangja (hist | edit) [10,012 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Japanese-Korean princess (1901–1989)}} {{family name hatnote|Yi||lang=Korean}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Yi Bangja | title = Crown Princess of Korea | native_lang1_name1 = 이방자 | image = Yi Bangja.jpg | caption = Then-Princess Masako wearing the Order of the Precious Crown, between 1919/1926 | birth_name = Princess Masako of Nashimoto | birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|11|4|df=yes}} | birth_place = [...")
  • 18:1618:16, 8 July 2025 Yi Ku (hist | edit) [8,307 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Korean prince (1931–2005)}} {{distinguish|Gu Yi}} {{family name hatnote|Yi||lang=Korean}}{{baptismal name|Francis}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Yi Ku | image = Yi Gu.jpg | caption = Yi as a child | succession = Head of the House of Yi | reign-type = Period | reign = May 1, 1970 – July 16, 2005 | predecessor = Crown Prince Yi Un | successor = Yi Won or Yi Seok or Yi Hae-won <br...")
  • 18:1518:15, 8 July 2025 Jeonju Lee Royal Family Association (hist | edit) [18,387 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Organization in South Korea}} {{Infobox organization | name = Jeonju Lee Royal Family Association<br>전주이씨대동종약원<br>全州李氏大同宗約院 | logo = | founders = | dissolved = | type = Family association | location = Seoul, South Korea | origins = | area_served = | owner...")
  • 18:1418:14, 8 July 2025 Syngman Rhee (hist | edit) [75,995 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|President of South Korea from 1948 to 1960}} {{About|the first president of South Korea|the Presbyterian minister|Syngman Rhee (clergyman)}} {{Family name hatnote|Rhee||lang=Korean}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = His Excellency | name = Syngman Rhee | native_name = {{nobold|이승만}} | native_name_lang = | image = Rhee Syng-Man in 1948.jpg | caption =...")
  • 18:1218:12, 8 July 2025 Korean shamanism (hist | edit) [118,872 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Folk religion}} thumb|right|The {{Transliteration|ko|rr|[[taegeuk}} symbol, representing the cosmos, is often displayed on the exterior of {{Transliteration|ko|rr|guttang}}, or shrine-buildings in the {{Transliteration|ko|rr|musok}} religion.]] '''Korean shamanism''', also known as '''{{Transliteration|ko|rr|musok}}''' ({{Korean|hangul=무속|hanja=巫俗}}) is a religion from Korea. Religious studies|Scholars of religi...")
  • 18:1118:11, 8 July 2025 Gut (ritual) (hist | edit) [11,209 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Korean shamanic rite}} {{Italic title}}thumb|Famous ''mudang'' holding a five-day long ''gut'' performance in rural [[South Korea.]] {{Korean shamanism}} '''''Gut''''' ({{Korean|hangul=굿}}, also romanised '''''kut''''' or '''''goot''''') are the rites performed by Korean shamans, involving offerings and sacrifices to gods, spirits and ancestors.{{sfnb|Lee|1981|p=27}} They are characterised...")
  • 18:1118:11, 8 July 2025 Holism (hist | edit) [24,682 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|A system as a whole, not just its parts}} {{See Wiktionary||-holism|suffix}} '''Holism''' is the interdisciplinary idea that systems possess properties as wholes apart from the properties of their component parts.<ref>{{Citation|last = Seevnick|first = M.P.|title = Holism, physical theories and quantum mechanics| journal= Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics|year = 2004| volume=3...")
  • 18:1018:10, 8 July 2025 Soul loss (hist | edit) [5,706 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Shamanism term}} In shamanism, the term '''loss of soul''' refers to the loss of the human part of the life force, the soul.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Шаманство - Сибирский шаманизм. Похищение (потеря) души |url=http://www.shamanstvo.ru/shamanizm/spirit/spirit_02.htm |access-date=2022-04-24 |website=www.shamanstvo.ru}}</ref> == Causes of soul loss in shamanism == The prevailing conce...")
  • 18:1018:10, 8 July 2025 Apotheosis (hist | edit) [49,685 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Glorification of a subject to divine level}} {{Redirect|Deified|the deification of the self|Egotheism|the album by Keak da Sneak|Deified (album)}} {{about|the term|the film by John Lennon and Yoko Ono|Apotheosis (film)|the novel series by Douglas Hill|Apotheosis (series)|discussion on the theory that a deity was once an actual living person|Euhemerism}}{{Distinguish|Cult of personality}}File:Veronese-Triomphe_de_Venise.jpg|thumb|''Apotheosis of Veni...")
  • 18:0918:09, 8 July 2025 Ungnyeo (hist | edit) [2,180 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Bear woman in Korean creation myth}} {{Infobox Korean name |image= |hangul=웅녀 |hanja=熊女 |mr=Ungnyŏ|rr=Ungnyeo}} '''Ungnyeo''' ({{korean|hangul=웅녀|hanja=熊女|lit='bear woman'}}) was a bear who became a woman according to the creation myth of the Korean nation. ==Story== In the tale, a tiger and a bear lived together in a cave and prayed to the divine king Hwanung to be made human. Hwanung heard their prayers a...")
  • 18:0818:08, 8 July 2025 Mountain God (hist | edit) [12,853 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Asian local mountain gods}} {{Infobox Chinese | hangul = 산신 | hanja = 山神 | rr = Sansin | mr = Sansin | image = Brooklyn Museum - Mountain Spirit (Sanshin).jpg | caption = A Korean representation of a ''sanshin'' | c = 山神 | p = shānshén | kanji = 山の神 | kana = やまのかみ | romaji = Yama no Kami | qn = sơn thần <br> thần núi | chunom = 神𡶀 | chuhan = 山神 }} '''Mountain Gods''' ({{zh|c=山神}}) are Asian tutelary...")
  • 18:0818:08, 8 July 2025 Sinbyeong (hist | edit) [4,515 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Korean culture-bound syndrome}} {{Korean shamanism}} {{Infobox Korean name/auto | hangul = 신@병<!--pronounced [신뼝]--> | hanja = 神病 }} '''Sinbyeong''' or '''shinbyong''', also called "'''self-loss'''", is the possession from a god that a chosen ''mu'' (shaman) goes through in the Korean shamanic tradition. It is said to be accompanied by physical pain and psychosis. Believers would assert that...")
  • 18:0618:06, 8 July 2025 Gwageo (hist | edit) [24,885 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Civil service exams in pre-modern Korea}} {{italic title}} {{Infobox Korean name| hangul=과거| hanja=科擧| rr=gwageo| mr=kwagŏ| |image=Gwageo Siheom Reenactment 12.jpg|caption=A modern reenactment of the {{Transliteration|ko|rr|gwageo}} being administered (2018)}} The '''{{Transliteration|ko|rr|gwageo}}''' ({{Korean|hangul=과거|hanja=科擧}}) or '''''kwagŏ''''' were the national '''civil service examinations''' under the Goryeo (918–13...")
  • 18:0518:05, 8 July 2025 Baekjeong (hist | edit) [29,227 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Korean untouchable caste}} {{italic title}} {{Infobox Korean name/auto |img=백정 Baekjeong, The butcher.jpg |caption=A masked person acting as a ''baekjeong'' butcher in a play |hangul=백정 |hanja=白丁 }} The '''''baekjeong''''' ({{Korean|hangul=백정}}) were an untouchable caste in Korea,<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=http://www.chakranews.com/castes-in-a-global-perspective-is-caste-only-a-hindu-problem-part...")
  • 18:0418:04, 8 July 2025 Royal Noble Consort Sukbin Choe (hist | edit) [20,086 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Joseon royal consort (1670–1718)}} {{About|the consort of Sukjong of Joseon|other people|Consort Choe (disambiguation){{!}}Consort Choe}} {{hatnote|In this Korean name, the family name is Choe, and ''Suk-bin'' is a title, not a personal name.}} {{Over-quotation|date=March 2024}}{{Infobox royalty | name = Suk-bin Choe<br />숙빈 최씨 | image...")
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