He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as " The Pearls of Parlay " and " The Heathen ", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.

" The Hindoo Goddess Karle ", an illustration from Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers About the Heathen, by Dr. John Scudder ( London, 1849 ).

His interest grew to a furious sort of " backwards homesickness ", inspiring him to obtain Baptist orders, and eventually write his famous 1792 pamphlet, " An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to use Means for the Conversion of Heathen.

Many people participated in the Corona project, including: Francesco Bontempi ( songwriting, arrangement, producing, mixing ), Francesco Alberti ( engineering ), Graziano Fanelli ( engineering ), Olga Souza singer ( vocals ), Jenny B ( real name Giovanna Bersola ) singer for the first single " The Rhythm of the Night ", ( vocals ) songwriters-Antonia Bottari, Ivana Spagna, G. Spagna, Annerley Gordon, Fred Di Bonaventura, Gaffurini, V. Marcolin, M. Marcolin, M. Anthony, Michael Gaffey, Pete Glenister, F. Martinelli, A. Puntillo, Marco Baroni, A. Bellucci, L. Ratti, S. Tonelli, N. Heathen, I. G.

His first songwriting contribution after joining Oasis was " Hung in a Bad Place ", which appeared on Oasis ' 5th album Heathen Chemistry and was said to resemble Heavy Stereo.

The drum loop Of " Nightclubbing " was also duplicated by Oasis for " Force of Nature ", a track recorded for their 2002 album Heathen Chemistry.

" Stop Crying Your Heart Out " was made available three months before Heathen Chemistry, along with " Songbird ", " She Is Love ", and " Little by Little ", after an individual recorded a studio session and leaked the material online.

The hammer Mjöllnir ( literally " smasher ", " smashing power ") is one of the primary symbols of Heathen religions ; pendants are commonly worn amongst adherents.

Heathen priests are usually called godi or " godman / men ", and priestesses are called gydia or " godwoman / women ".

Heathen places of worship can be ve, simply " sacred enclosures " which can be woods or natural shrines, and hofs or " hovs ", temple buildings which can be constructed within a ve or not.

The Armanen-Orden ( acronym: AO ; German for " Armanen Order ", " Order of the Armanen ") is an Arman Heathen organisation active in the German countries.

In modern times, " Heathen " and " Heathenry " are increasingly used to refer to those branches of Paganism inspired by the pre-Christian religions of the Germanic, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples.

Germanic Neopaganism | Heathen altar for Wheel of the Year | Haustblot in Björkö, Öckerö | Björkö, Västergötland | Westgothland, Sweden.

Germanic Neopaganism | Heathen altar for Wheel of the Year | Haustblot in Björkö, Öckerö | Björkö, Västergötland | Westgothland, Sweden.

In his preface, Dryden explained how he had conducted historical research into Germanic paganism in order to write the sacrifice scene in the first act: " When I wrote it, seven years ago, I employ'd some reading about it, to inform my self out of Beda, Bochartus, and other Authors, concerning the rites of the Heathen Saxons ...".

A popular belief among Germanic Neopagans is reincarnation ; the Heathen view of reincarnation is exposed in the concept of Apterburder contained in the Edda.

The arrival of the Vikings, in particular the Danish Great Heathen Army, upset the political and social geography of Britain and Ireland.

In late March 2011, Toy, Bowie's previously unreleased album from 2001, was leaked onto the internet, containing material used for Heathen and most of its single B-sides, as well as unheard new versions of his early back catalogue.

The Great Heathen Army marched on Northumbria in the late summer of 866, seizing York on 21 November 866.

In the 1990s, Swedish historian Mattias Gardell studied the white separatist Heathen community in the United States, noting that it had become one of the " most dynamic trends " within the " radical-racist milieu " of the U. S., surpassing more traditional white separatist groups like the Ku Klux Klan in " terms of numbers and influence ".

In the Heathen movements, a kindred is a local worship group and organizational unit.

Athanasius works include his two-part Against the Heathen and The Incarnation of the Word of God.

Viking activity in Britain increased in 865 when the Great Heathen Army, probably a part of the forces which had been active in Francia, landed in East Anglia.

Bowie ( left ) on-stage with Sterling Campbell during the Heathen Tour in 2002.

Bowie and Visconti continued their collaboration, producing a new album of completely original songs instead: the result of the sessions was the 2002 album Heathen.

2002 saw the release of Heathen, and, during the second half of the year, the Heathen Tour.

In his Homilies Concerning the Statutes St. John Chrysostom ( 344 – 408 ) explicitly espoused the idea, based on his reading of Scripture, that the Earth floated on the waters gathered below the firmament, and St. Athanasius ( c. 293 – 373 ) expressed similar views in Against the Heathen.

As time went on, Viking raids became more sophisticated, with coordinated strikes involving multiple forces and large armies, as the " Great Heathen Army " that ravaged Anglo-Saxon England in the 9th century.

A Heathen altar for household worship in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Many Heathen groups adopt variants of Norse mythology as a basis to their beliefs, conceiving of the Earth as being situated on a great world tree called Yggdrasil.

A simple Heathen altar.

Heathen is from Old English hæðen " not Christian or Jewish " ( c. f.

The following year the Great Heathen Army led by the Brothers Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan and Ubbe Ragnarsson, and also by another Viking Guthrum, arrived in East Anglia.

Aided by the Great Heathen Army ( which had already overrun much of England from its base in Jorvik ), Bagsecg's forces, and Halfdan's forces ( through an alliance ), the combined Viking forces raided much of England until 871, when they planned an invasion of Wessex.

The pantheon of Heathenism comprehends various gods divided traditionally into three " races ", the Æsir, the Vanir, and the Giants or Jötuns.

* Kale, the Romani for " black ", used as a self-designation by some groups of the Romani people:

Since it is a self-designation, the word " România " has an older history, coming from " românie " which in turn resulted as a derivation of the word " român " by adding the suffix-ie, like in "" moş → moşie ", " domn " → " domnie " or " boier " → " boierie " ( lord → lordship ).

The Unami language is sometimes treated as " Delaware " or " Delaware proper ", reflecting the original application of the term Delaware to Unami speakers, but Munsee speakers use " Delaware " as a self-designation in English.

The Latter-day Saint Endowment prayer circle once included use of the words " Pay Lay Ale ", which some adherents believed were Adamic words meaning " Oh God, hear the words of my mouth ".

This development has been decried not only by adherents of the King James Only movement, but also by others, who hold that the King James Version is correct and that Isaiah 14: 12 refers to Satan under the name of " Lucifer ", or who hold that the reference to Satan is preeminent.

In the late 20th century, " Paganism ", or " Neopaganism ", became widely used in reference to adherents of various New Religious Movements including Wicca.

When religion is seen in terms of " sacred ", " divine ", intensive " valuing ", or " ultimate concern ", then it is possible to understand why scientific findings and philosophical criticisms ( e. g. Richard Dawkins ) do not necessarily disturb its adherents.

To the extent that it makes sense, there is no single " Marxist theory of state ", but rather many different " Marxist " theories that have been developed by adherents of Marxism.

However, whereas Trinitarians believe that " God the Son ", the eternal second person of the Trinity, became man, Oneness adherents hold that the one and only true God — who manifests himself in any way he chooses, including as Father, Son and Holy Spirit — became man.

Members of The Salvation Army also include " adherents ", these are people who do not make the commitment to be a soldier but who formally recognize The Salvation Army as their church.

William Butterfield, the original architect, a High Churchman himself, produced a vigorous masterpiece of Victorian Gothic, among his few secular buildings, which Sir Nikolaus Pevsner characterized as " manly ", and which, Charles Eastlake asserted, defied criticism, but which only slowly gained adherents during the later 20th century.

Martov's supporters, who were in the minority in a crucial vote on the question of party membership, came to be called " Mensheviks ", derived from the Russian word меньшинство ( men ' shinstvo, " minority "), whereas Lenin's adherents were known as " Bolsheviks ", from bol ' shinstvo (" majority ").

As an offset to this sword maker, the Royalists had among their adherents Colonel Dud Dudley, who had invented a means of smelting iron by the use of coke, and who claimed he could turn out " all sorts of bar iron fit for making of muskets, carbines, and iron for great bolts ", both more cheaply, more speedily and more excellent than could be done in any other way.

Dzogchen, or " Great Perfection ", is a central teaching of the Nyingma school also practiced by adherents of other Tibetan Buddhist sects.

Soon a great debate began in the media, with some adherents involved in the Neopagan and New Age movements arguing that they had " a kind of spiritual ownership of the circle ", and they wanted it left in situ, and not disturbed by further archaeological excavation.

This broke their spirit, and one by one they all yielded, accepting the communion of John Scholasticus, the patriarch of Constantinople, and the " Synodites ", as the adherents of the Chalcedonian decrees were contemptuously termed by their opponents, " lapsing miserably into the communion of the two natures ".

Critics of Oneness theology commonly refer to its adherents as " Jesus Only ", implying that they deny the existence of the Father and Holy Spirit.

" ( For this reason, some adherents spell the name of the Hasidut, " Breslev ", stressing the lev ( heart ).

The two main provisions of the Bill were severe penalties for anyone who spoke or printed asserted or implied that William and Mary were monarchs only " in fact " and not " of right ", and a new oath for all who held offices of profit under the Crown in which they had to swear to defend the government against the exiled king James and his adherents.

Many Salars became adherents of Jahriyya, or the " New Teaching ", as the Qing government officials dubbed it ( in opposition to the " Old Teaching ", i. e. both the Khufiyya and the non-Sufi Islam ).

The group's adherents were given the name " Illuminati ", although they called themselves " Perfectibilists ".