Sacred

author, a half Navajo woman named Dr. Alvord, reflects on her time near the end of high school when she had to decide whether or not to leave the reservation for her education. She identifies with the four sacred mountains that enclose the reservation, as the Navajo culture is one very sacred to her. Dr. Alvord made good grades in high school, though not much was being taught and college readiness was not on the forefront. However, she applied to Dartmouth, an Ivy League school where 50 other…

The crusades were more negative than positive because the Crusaders had a vision that they would control the sacred place the holy land and they would do anything to get it. The Crusaders murdered innocent people. They destroyed other cities and other religion sacred places. It is definite that the Crusades were more negative than positive because the crusaders killed innocent people. Document 1 states that “In Europe, Crusaders sometimes turned their fury against the Jews, massacring entire…

were a cult made up of six women, the Virgo Vestalis Maxima and five other Vestals. These women were in charge of worshiping the hearth-goddess Vesta and keeping her sacred fire of Rome always burning (Schultz 1505). The Vestals served a total of thirty years: the first ten years learning the responsibilities and rituals of their sacred position, the next ten years actively serving the goddess Vesta, and the final ten years passing on the knowledge of what they learned to the next…

conservative Christians and Muslims believe that their sacred texts, the Bible and Qu’ran, condemn same-sex relationships.The King James Version of the Bible has over 31,000 versus. There are five versus and one passage in the Bible that refers to same sex behavior: 3 in the old testament, 3 in the new. The Qu’ran contains 6,236 versus. There are five versus that are believed to refer to gay relationships. Throughout the different translations of these sacred texts, the meaning of certain versus…

They could have been a victim anywhere at this time in history: bombings, riots, and fires. The horror happened in the sacred place: " The mother smiled to know her child / Was in the sacred place," (Stanza 6. Line 21-22) not the feared place as the mother talks about in Stanza 4 after the daughter has asked to go to the march: "No, baby, no you may no go, / For I fear those funs will fire." Those lines…

designed to convey certain information to the viewers. Other than aesthetic impulses, motivations of patronage are mixed and different in each case. In this essay, we will focus three of the main purposes in art patronage-- for education purpose in sacred places as churches, for individual…

and unhappy, longing for her family. Life in the tiyospaye of Sacred Horse was ceremonial and extremely formal for her, and she missed her home where she can do whatever she feels like (176). Eventually, she returned to her family after Sacred Horse and his immediate family get sick from smallpox, which killed most of the people in the camp circle including her husband. When Waterlily returned to her family, she was pregnant with Sacred Horse’s child and his family proposed that she marry one of…

if they used this animal to it’s full extent it can grant them absolute spirituality and divinity. It is a beast of burden and is prominently a sacred symbol to the ancient Andeans, they adored this creature that much that Metal Llama sculptures were buried with deceased and were given as an offering to the Gods to ensure the fertility. (Symbol- Holy, Sacred, Fertility, the Whole Package to live…

This verse, pregnant with mystical symbolism, further expands the theme discussed in the preceding and the fourteenth verse of this granth. The said two verses speak of the transformation of the self from its base state to a state of true and perfect awareness, while this verse, using the metaphor of the metamorphosis of a larva into a fully-grown wasp, speaks of the extinction of the individual self and attainment of oneness and identification with the Nūr of the Satguru. It is a biological…

valued but not considered inspired, instead they are considered useful articulations of the Christian faith and life. Bible is composed of 66 books attributed to 40 different authors. Bible is referred as the word of God by Christians. Torah the sacred book was written by Moses at Mount Sinai, but some. Hebrew scripture is known as the Christians Old Testament. In this it shows that God is the creator of the world and everything in it including humanity. They also believe that even the stories…