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4 09, 2017

What’s the Lupercalia? Roman holidays – Religion

By |2019-02-14T08:10:07-08:00September 4th, 2017|Religion, Romans|Comments Off on What’s the Lupercalia? Roman holidays – Religion

The decorated ceiling of the cave where people may have celebrated the Lupercalia, under the Palatine Hill in Rome. Februa parties in February In the time of the kings of Rome, [...]

25 08, 2017

Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah – Jewish holidays

By |2017-08-25T11:57:45-07:00August 25th, 2017|Religion, West Asia|Comments Off on Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah – Jewish holidays

Apples For thousands of years, the Jews celebrated their New Year around the beginning of spring, just like everybody else in West Asia. Passover was probably port of this old New Year celebration. Sometime before 100 [...]

24 08, 2017

Jewish history – West Asian religion

By |2019-10-17T05:34:35-07:00August 24th, 2017|History, Religion, West Asia|Comments Off on Jewish history – West Asian religion

Jewish history: The Pharaoh's daughter picks Moses up out of his basket (synagogue at Dura Europos, Syria, 200s AD) Bible stories There are really three sets of articles here about [...]

23 08, 2017

Christian vocabulary – what do the words mean?

By |2017-08-23T11:47:22-07:00August 23rd, 2017|Religion|Comments Off on Christian vocabulary – what do the words mean?

Priest blessing people who have the plague As Christianity developed into a world religion, it also developed a lot of special words. These Christian words describe the different people involved. [...]

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