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  • 121Aleister Crowley — Crowley in 1906 Born Edward Alexander Crowley 12 October 1875(1875 10 12) Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England …

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  • 122Mandala — For other uses, see Mandala (disambiguation). Thangka painting of Vajradhatu Mandala Maṇḍala (मण्डल) is a Sanskrit word that means circle . In the Buddhist and Hindu religious traditions their sacred art often takes a mandala form. The basic form …

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  • 123Shango — This article is about the Yoruba divinity. For other uses, see Shango (disambiguation). In the Yorùbá religion, Sàngó ( also spelled, Sango or Shango, often known as Xangô or Changó in Latin America and the Caribbean, and also known as Jakuta[1]) …

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  • 124Mircea Eliade — Eliade redirects here. For other persons of the same name, see Eliade (surname). Mircea Eliade Born March 13, 1907(1907 03 13) Bucharest, Romania Died April 22, 1986( …

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  • 125History of male circumcision — It has been variously proposed that male circumcision began as a religious sacrifice, as a rite of passage marking a boy s entrance into adulthood, as a form of sympathetic magic to ensure virility, as a means of suppressing (or enhancing) sexual …

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  • 126Bukusu people — The Bukusu are one of the seventeen Kenyan sub tribes of the Luhya Bantu language and cultural group of East Africa. Calling themselves BaBukusu , they are the largest single ethnic unit among the Luhya nation, making up about 17% of the whole… …

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  • 127Kushiel's Legacy — Kushiel s Dart Kushiel s Chosen Kushiel s Avatar Kushiel s Scion Kushiel s Justice Kushiel s Mercy Author …

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  • 128Jengu — A jengu (plural miengu) is a water spirit and deity in the traditional beliefs of the Sawa ethnic groups of Cameroon, particularly the Duala, Bakweri, and related Sawa peoples. Among the Bakweri, the name is liengu (plural maengu). They are… …

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