The Kesh temple hymn, one of the oldest surviving literature in the world, describes what aspect of life regarding Acgi?
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Acgi In Sumerian religion, Acgi, Ašgi or Asgi was the warrior son of Nintud (another name for Ninlil or Ninhursag). The Kesh temple hymn describes his birth:
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Kesh temple hymn The Kesh Temple Hymn or Liturgy to Nintud or Liturgy to Nintud on the creation of man and woman is a Sumerian tablet, written on clay tablets as early as 2600 BC. Along with the Instructions of Shuruppak, it is the oldest surviving literature in the world.
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Women in the Guru Granth Sahib The Guru Granth Sahib is the holy text of Sikhs. Several of the shabads (hymns) from the "Guru Granth Sahib" address the role of women in Indian and Sikh society.
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Devapi In Hinduism, Devapi (Sanskrit: देवापि , Devāpi , lit. "friend of Gods") or Devāpi Arṣṭiṣeṇa, is an immortal sage. According to the Nirukta (ii.10), the "Brihaddevata", the Mahabharata, and the Puranas, he was a Kuru prince and the eldest son of King Pratipa of Hastinapura. He was a noble and well-liked prince but he was not allowed to succeed Pratipa, because he was affected with leprosy and the council of Brahmins and elderly citizens were opposed to this proposal. As a result of this, his younger brother Shantanu succeeded Pratipa as the king of Hastinapura. Later Devapi retired to the forest for penance. According to the Matsya Purana and the Bhagavata Purana, he along with the sage Maru will remain alive till the end of the present Kaliyuga at a place called Kalapagrama and will revive the Paurava dynasty in the next Kritayuga.
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Psalm 90 Psalm 90 is the 90th psalm from the Book of Psalms. Unique among the Psalms, it is attributed to Moses. The Psalm is well known for its reference to human life expectancy being 70 or 80 ("threescore years and ten", or "if by reason of strength ... fourscore years" in the King James Version), although the Psalm's attributed author, Moses, lived to 120 years, according to Biblical tradition.
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Phocais The Phocais (Greek: Φωκαΐς ) was an ancient Greek epic attributed to Homer. In the "Life of Homer", a biography of Homer falsely attributed to Herodotus, it was said to have been written while Homer lived at Phocaea with a man named Thestorides; however, whether Thestorides actually existed and where he lived is highly suspect. Like all Homeric works, its true author is unknown; today only a single fragment (three to four sentences of text) claiming its existence survives.
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Aclla Aclla (Quechua: aklla or aqlla, pl. aqllakuna), also called Chosen Women, Virgins of the Sun, and Wives of the Inca, were sequestered women in the Inca Empire. They were virgins, chosen at about age 10. They performed several services. They were given in marriage to men who had distinguished themselves in service to the empire; they produced luxury items, weaving fine cloth, preparing ritual food, and brewing the chicha (beer) drunk at religious festivals; and some, the most "perfect", were selected as human sacrifices for religious rites. Others lived out their lives in a monastic environment.
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Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki The Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (新訳華厳経音義私記 ) is a Japanese annotation of the "Avatamsaka Sūtra". Dated to 794, it is the oldest Japanese "ongi", or collection of difficult to interpret words showing their pronunciation and meaning, and is a National Treasure of Japan.
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Gopi Krishna (yogi) Gopi Krishna (30 May 1903 – 31 July 1984) of India was a yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, and writer. His autobiography is known under the title "".
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Acharyasri Rajesh Acharyasri Rajesh an ardent follower of Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati, learned the Vedas and related scriptures in the gurukul system. Realizing the potential of Vedas in changing a person’s life in all areas of Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha, Acharyasri took an oath to teach Vedas to all irrespective of caste, creed or gender. During the last 15 years nearly 3 lakhs people from India and abroad have been initiated to the Vedic way of Life by learning Vedas. Renouncing these prestigious positions in his young age of 40, he decide to dedicate the rest of his life, for teaching, research and propagation of Vedas and Vedic rituals to save the present day Hindu Community from the oblivion of wrong concepts and superstitious rituals.
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Longevity myths Longevity myths are traditions about long-lived people (generally supercentenarians), either as individuals or groups of people, and practices that have been believed to confer longevity, but for which scientific evidence does not support the ages claimed or the reasons for the claims. While literal interpretations of such myths may appear to indicate extraordinarily long lifespans, many scholars believe such figures may be the result of incorrect translation of numbering systems through various languages coupled by the cultural and or symbolic significance of certain numbers.
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Hymnology Hymnology (from Greek ὕμνος "hymnos", "song of praise" and -λογία "-logia", "study of") is the scholarly study of religious song, or the hymn, in its many aspects, with particular focus on choral and song. It may be more or less clearly distinguished from "hymnody", the creation and practice of such song. Hymnologists, such as Erik Routley, may study the history and origins of hymns and of traditions of sung worship, the biographies of the women and men who have written hymns that have passed into choral or congregational use, the interrelationships between text and tune, the historical processes, both folk and redactional, that have changed hymn texts and hymn tunes over time, and the sociopolitical, theological and aesthetic arguments concerning various styles of sung worship.
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Torah reading Torah reading (; Ashkenazi pronunciation: "Kriyas HaToire") is a Jewish religious tradition that involves the public reading of a set of passages from a Torah scroll. The term often refers to the entire ceremony of removing the Torah scroll (or scrolls) from the Torah ark, chanting the appropriate excerpt with special cantillation (also called trope), and returning the scroll(s) to the ark.
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Singai Nesan Singai Nesan (Tamil: சிங்கை நேசன் , English: Singapore Friend, also transliterated as "Cinkai Necan") was a Tamil language weekly newspaper published from Singapore from 1887 to 1890. The newspaper also carried material in English and Malay. It is the oldest Tamil newspaper in Singapore of which a substantial number of issues has been saved in archives. The issues of "Singai Nesan" contains historical material on the religious life of Hindu and Muslim communities of Singapore. S.K. Makadoom Saiboo was the editor of "Singai Nesan".
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Sahakdukht Sahakdukht (Armenian: Սահակադուխտ, "daughter of Sahak") was an Armenian composer of hymns, poet, and pedagogue who lived in the 8th century. An ascetic, she lived in a cave in the Garni Gorge, near present-day Yerevan; there she produced ecclesiastical poems as well as liturgical chants. Of these, the only one to survive is "Srbuhi Mariam" ("St. Mary"), a nine-stanza acrostic verse. It is believed that many of her hymns were dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Some of them are supposed to have helped to further shape the genre in subsequent centuries. Sahakduxt is also known to have taught lay music lovers and clerical students a number of sacred melodies; this she did while seated behind a curtain, as the mores of the period required.
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Persian literature Persian literature (Persian: ادبیات فارسی‎ ‎ "adabiyāt-e fārsi"), comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and it is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within Greater Iran including present-day Iran, Iraq, the Caucasus, and Turkey, regions of Central and South Asia where the Persian language has historically been either the native or official language. For instance, Mowlana Rumi, one of best-loved Persian poets, born in Balkh or Vakhsh (in what is now Afghanistan), wrote in Persian, and lived in Konya, then the capital of the Seljuks in Anatolia. The Ghaznavids conquered large territories in Central and South Asia and adopted Persian as their court language. There is thus Persian literature from Iran, Mesopotamia, Azerbaijan, the wider Caucasus, Turkey, western parts of Pakistan, India, Tajikistan and other parts of Central Asia. Not all Persian literature is written in Persian, as some consider works written by ethnic Persians in other languages, such as Greek and Arabic, to be included. At the same time, not all literature written in Persian is written by ethnic Persians or Iranians, as Turkic, Caucasian, and Indic poets and writers have also used the Persian language in the environment of Persianate cultures.
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Mysore literature in Kannada Mysore literature in Kannada is a body of literature composed in the Kannada language in the historical Kingdom of Mysore in Southern India and written in the Kannada script. The writings date from the Kingdom of Mysore, which existed from around 1600 CE until the establishment of modern India in 1947. Many of the works of this literature written on religious themes are labeled Veerashaiva or Vaishnava in acknowledgment of the two faiths that gave form to the literature and fostered it until the advent of the modern era Despite a gradual decline in the popularity of Jainism, authors devoted to the faith produced some works of merit. Secular themes dealing with a wide range of subjects were also written on. Kannada literature flourished for a short while in the court of the neighbouring kingdom of the Nayakas of Keladi whose territory was annexed by Mysore in 1763.
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Kojiki Kojiki (古事記 , "Records of Ancient Matters" or "An Account of Ancient Matters") , also known as Furukotofumi, is the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711–712) and composed by Ō no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Genmei. The "Kojiki" is a collection of myths concerning the origin of the four home islands of Japan, and the Kami. Along with the "Nihon Shoki", the myths contained in the "Kojiki" are part of the inspiration behind many practices. Later, the myths were re-appropriated for Shinto practices including the misogi purification ritual.
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Ācārakkōvai Acharakkovai (Tamil: ஆசாரக்கோவை ) is a poetic work of didactic nature belonging to the "Pathinenkilkanakku" anthology of Tamil literature. This belongs to the 'post Sangam period' corresponding to between 600 – 900 CE. "Acharakkovai" contains 100 poems written by the poet Peruvaayin Mulliyaar. The poems of "Acharakkovai" are written in the Venpa meter.
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Ezra Ezra ( ; Hebrew: עזרא‎ , "Ezra "; fl. 480–440 BCE), also called Ezra the Scribe (, "Ezra ha-Sofer ") and Ezra the Priest in the Book of Ezra, was a Jewish scribe and a priest. In Greco-Latin Ezra is called Esdras (Greek: Ἔσδρας ). According to the Hebrew Bible he was a descendant of Seraiah ( ) the last High Priest to serve in the First Temple ( ), and a close relative of Joshua the first High Priest of the Second Temple ( CJB and similar translations only; see also ). He returned from Babylonian exile and reintroduced the Torah in Jerusalem ( and ). According to 1 Esdras, a Greek translation of the Book of Ezra still in use in Eastern Orthodoxy, he was also a High Priest. Rabbinic tradition holds that he was only a common priest.
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Kegare Kegare (穢れ・汚れ, uncleanness, defilement) is the Japanese term for a state of pollution and defilement, important particularly in Shinto as a religious term. Typical causes of "kegare" are the contact with any form of death, childbirth (for both parents), disease and menstruation. In Shinto "kegare" is a form of "tsumi" (taboo violation), which needs to be somehow remedied by the person responsible. This condition can be remedied through purification rites called "misogi" and "harae". "Kegare" can have an adverse impact not only on the person directly affected, but also to the community he or she belongs to.
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Yogi A yogi (sometimes spelled jogi) is a practitioner of yoga. In Vedic Sanskrit, yoga (from the root "yuj") means "to add", "to join", "to unite", or "to attach" in its most common literal sense, where in recent days, especially in the West, yoga often refers to physical exercises only. The term "yogi" is used broadly to refer to sannyasi or practitioners of meditation in a number of Indian religions. The feminine form is "yogini", but is not always used, especially in the West.