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18 hours ago · A Portuguese language Prayer Book is the basis of the Church's liturgy. In the early days of the church, a translation into Portuguese from 1849 of the 1662 edition of the Book of Common Prayer was used. In 1884 the church published its own prayer book based on the Anglican, Roman and Mozarabic liturgies.
18 hours ago · Appearance. Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first publication, with first lines provided to illustrate the style of the translation.
18 hours ago · Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht [a] (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long ...
18 hours ago · The Gita in the title of the Bhagavad Gita literally means "song". Religious leaders and scholars interpret the word Bhagavad in a number of ways. Accordingly, the title has been interpreted as, "the song of God"; "the word of God" by the theistic schools, [19] "the words of the Lord", [20] "the Divine Song", [21] [page needed] [22] and "Celestial Song" by others.
18 hours ago · The Holy Roman Empire, [ f ] also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. [ 19 ] It developed in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost a thousand years until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.
18 hours ago · Paired torches, dogs, serpents, keys, knives, and lions. Hecate[ a ] is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, or snakes, or accompanied by dogs, [ 4 ] and in later periods depicted as three-formed or triple-bodied. She is variously associated with crossroads, night, light, magic ...
18 hours ago · Page from the Gospel of JudasMandaean Beth Manda(Mashkhanna) in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, in 2016, a contemporary-style mandi. Gnosticism(from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized:gnōstikós, Koine Greek:[ɣnostiˈkos], 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among ...
