texts which are meant to explain the hidden meanings of rituals. Hindu beliefs and practices are passed on by traditions and narrative texts‚ such as epics. The most famous of these epics are the twin Sanskrit epics‚ Ramayana and Mahabharata. The Ramayana (200 B.C.E – 200 C.E) is a source of social duty. It consists of seven books. The Mahabharata is the longest work of epic poetry in the world containing 100‚000 verses. The Hindu belief contains a class system called the varna system which refers
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the family who retiring from his job as an entomologist and return to Ayemenem; his hometown with his wife and his two children Ammu and Chacko. Several years later Ammu mariged with a Hindu man which hers marriage end in separation. She come back to hers parent and gave birth to a twin‚ Estha and Rahel. The twin live in
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in many ways. It was mostly the people in her life that helped her mature‚ become more patient and grow into a new person. Meeting the Bailey twins‚ marrying Jack and having her son Hero influenced her life greatly. Goldilocks was always on the run‚ but when Alex and Conner (the Bailey twins) came‚ she had something to focus on‚ helping them. The Bailey twins helped Goldilocks open up more towards people. This led to her making lifelong friendships and her meeting her true love Jack. She became
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Were Concentration Camps as Brutal as History States? In history people are taught about war‚ the great depression‚ and presidents‚ but what else do people learn about? People learn about the dark history of the nations past. One of the darkest times happened during the World War II‚ when Hitler began forming labor camps‚ which eventually turned into extermination camps‚ which is also known as‚ concentration camps. Concentration camps are not just brutal‚ they were darker than schools made them
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12th century when the Kachchwaha clan o Rajputs arrived at the old fort palace of Amber in the Aravalli Hills. The Kachchwaha belonged to the Kshatriya‚ or the warrior caste of Hindus‚ but they traced their origins back to the sun‚ via Kusa who the twin son of the god Rama.The people the Kachchwahas ousted were the Susawat Minas‚ who became the hereditary loyal guards of what became one of the largest and most valuable treasuries in India. From this base‚ the Kachchwaha Rajputs‚ with their brilliant
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When fire burns something‚ it doesn’t discriminate. The same way‚ death doesn’t discriminate from the rich and the poor. Fire also symbolizes sacrifice. In a puja‚ or prayer ritual‚ when a large fire is set to flame‚ there are many offerings burned in it. These colors are the most significant to Hinduism. The three symbols I used are the trishula‚ the OM sign‚ and an elephant. These signs are special to my culture because they are important in Hinduism. My family
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Stephanie Miyasato Period 7‚ 1-29-12 9/11 Would you jump? Hundreds of people who were trapped in the smoke and flames of the twin towers on September 11‚ 2001 were put in this position that would determine their life and death. Many believe that these “jumpers” were put to the test. “The Falling Man” was one of the many workers that did not anticipate their end to come. But this particular ‘jumper’ was very different from all the others. The man was identified as a slightly dark-skinned‚
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Surya is the important ancient Hindu Solar God. There are many hymns found in the Rig Veda which mention or honor Surya. The Rig Veda is a collection of more than a thousand hymns written between 1200 and 900 B.C. by people known as Aryans‚ who came to Afghanistan‚ Pakistan‚ and India from the Eurasian steppes to the north. The Rig Veda is one of the earliest known writings written in any Indo-European language. Hymn I.50 speaks to the Sun. (This passage is from The RigVeda; an anthology‚ a translation
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infused with Babylonian culture. The Hebrew Bible is now referred to as the “Old Testament”‚ which is the text the Jewish faith now follow. The Metamorphosis myth was spawned from the Romans. The Satapatha Brahmana tale is from the sacred text of the Hindu people. Prior to the point of the flood story‚ the story was written in the third person omniscient perspective. Since Utanapishtim told the story of the flood‚ he became a first person narrator. Since it is believed that the Hebrew Bible was scripted
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associated with a certain god or deity. These weapons are most often gifted to semi-divine beings‚ human beings or the rakshasas by the gods‚ sometimes as a result of penance. There are several weapons which were believed to be used by the gods of the Hindu theology‚ some of which are Agneyastra‚ Brahmastra‚ Chakram‚ Garudastra‚ Kaumodaki‚ Narayanastra‚ Pashupata‚ Shiva Dhanush‚ Sudarshana Chakra‚ Trishul‚ Vaishnavastra‚ Varunastra‚ and Vayavastra. Some of these weapons are explicitly classified (
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