Many mythologies involve a " world center ", which is often the sacred place of creation ; this center often takes the form of a tree, mountain, or other upright object, which serves as an axis mundi or axle of the world.

Many religions popular in ethnic regions of the Soviet Union, including the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism underwent ordeals similar to that which the Orthodox churches in other parts of the country suffered: thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were razed.

Many ancient religions had sacred sites, temples, oracles and sacred groves to which pilgrimages were made.

Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe.

Many Humanists see religions as superstitious, repressive and closed-minded, while religious fundamentalists may see Humanists as a threat to the values set out in their sacred texts.

Many of the sacred texts of Bokononism were written in the form of calypsos.

Many pictures show the serpent Python living in amity with Apollo and guarding the Omphalos, the sacred navel-stone and mid-point of the earth, which stood in Apollo's temple " ( Kerenyi 1951: 136 ).

Many Neopagan sources describe the hare as sacred to Andraste.

Many coins from Decapolis cities identify their city as " autonomous ," " free ," " sovereign ," or " sacred ," terms that imply some sort of self-governing status.

Many of these composers were amateur singers who developed new forms of sacred music suitable for performance by amateurs, and often using harmonic methods which would have been considered bizarre by contemporary European standards.

Many subsequent kingdoms of Korea, such as Buyeo, Goguryeo, Balhae, Goryeo and Joseon, considered the mountain sacred and held worshipping rituals for the mountain.

Many of these dances are also sacred ceremonies of secret societies like the hamatsa, or display of family origin from supernatural creatures such as the dzunukwa.

Many of his compositions were sacred music, much of which was very popular.

Many of his sacred works, composed for Venice's churches, date to this time.

Many of the great Himalayan mountains are respected as sacred.

Many well-to-do families will have an annex shrine room for sacred statues, scriptures and ritual objects.

Many people take an oath by holding in their hand or placing over their head a book of scripture or a sacred object, thus indicating the sacred witness through their action: such an oath is called corporal.

Many of these stories are held within the sacred texts, a few exclusively.

Many Chinese belief systems have concepts of a sacred and sometimes spiritual natural world yet do not always invoke a concept of personal god.

No Intestines led his band on a long migratory search for sacred tobacco, finally settling in southeastern Montana, where they became known as the Many Lodges or Mountain Crow.

Many traditional First Nations people consider song and dance to be sacred.

Many Latter-day Saints view the garment associated with the temple rites as sacred.

Many other mathematical objects have their origin in the hyperbola, such as hyperbolic paraboloids ( saddle surfaces ), hyperboloids (" wastebaskets "), hyperbolic geometry ( Lobachevsky's celebrated non-Euclidean geometry ), hyperbolic functions ( sinh, cosh, tanh, etc.

Many theorems from classical geometry hold true for this spherical geometry as well, but many do not ( see parallel postulate ).

Many forms observed in nature can be related to geometry, for example, the chambered nautilus grows at a constant rate and so its shell forms a logarithmic spiral to accommodate that growth without changing shape.

Many technologies that have featured in production cars are not allowed, for example: variable valve timing, variable intake geometry, ABS brakes and traction control.

Many fundamental tasks in mathematics, geometry, trigonometry, graph theory and graphing are performed in a two-dimensional space, or in other words, in the plane.

Many knots were shown to be hyperbolic knots, enabling the use of geometry in defining new, powerful knot invariants.

Many parts of modern geometry are based on the work of Euclid, while Eratosthenes was one of the first scientific geographers, calculating the circumference of the earth and conceiving the first maps based on scientific principles.

Many axiomatic systems were developed in the nineteenth century, including non-Euclidean geometry, the foundations of real analysis, Cantor's set theory and Frege's work on foundations, and Hilbert's ' new ' use of axiomatic method as a research tool.

Many of Blackstone's undergraduate texts survive, and they include few legal texts, instead being wide-ranging ; politics, current affairs, poetry, geometry and controversial theological texts.

According to a release by the Abel Prize committee " Many of the major lines of research in algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry are only possible because of the incisive contributions and illuminating insights of John Tate.

Many difficult problems in geometry become much more tractable when an inversion is applied.

Many times in geometry, if we take three special lines through the vertices of a triangle, or cevians, then their reflections about the angle bisector, called isogonal lines, will also have interesting properties.

Many different theories have been put forward about what the garden is supposed to represent, from islands in a stream to swimming baby tigers to the peaks of mountains rising above the clouds to theories about secrets of geometry or of the rules of equilibrium of odd numbers.

Many constructs within Euclidean geometry consist of an infinite collection of points that conform to certain axioms.

Many results and properties in algebraic geometry and complex analytic geometry are formulated in terms of coherent sheaves and their cohomology.

Many results were obtained, however, in the Italian school of algebraic geometry, and are up to 100 years old.

Many different theories have been put forward about what the garden is supposed to represent, from islands in a stream to swimming baby tigers to the peaks of mountains rising above the clouds to theories about secrets of geometry or of the rules of equilibrium of odd numbers.

Many technologies that have featured in production cars are not allowed, including variable valve timing, variable intake geometry, ABS brakes and traction control system.

Many of Alcott's educational principles are still used in classrooms today, including " teach by encouragement ", art education, music education, acting exercises, learning through experience, risk-taking in the classroom, tolerance in schools, physical education / recess, and early childhood education.

Many consider him the first true scientific aerial investigator and the first person to understand the underlying principles and forces of flight.

Many modern machine learning methods are based on objectivist Bayesian principles.

Many philosophies and worldviews have a set of classical elements believed to reflect the simplest essential parts and principles of which anything consists or upon which the constitution and fundamental powers of anything are based.

Many of his principles, therefore, found their way back into the mainstream animation consciousness, and can be seen in films such as The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo & Stitch.

Many data structures use both principles, sometimes combined in non-trivial ways ( as in XOR linking )

Many principles of diplomatic immunity are now considered to be customary law.

Many reformers focused on reforming society by reforming education on more scientific, humanistic, pragmatic or democratic principles.

Many effective therapies have been based on the principles of applied behavior analysis, including pivotal response therapy which is used to treat autism spectrum disorders.

Many of the principles and tenets of hacker ethic contribute to a common goal: the Hands-On Imperative.

Many people who have studied improv have noted that the guiding principles of improv are useful not just on stage but in everyday life.

Many of these scholars accept the general principles of the documentary hypothesis and suggest that the Torah consists of inconsistent texts edited together in a way that calls attention to divergent accounts.

Many relays use an electromagnet to operate a switching mechanism mechanically, but other operating principles are also used.

Many Humanists adopt principles of the Golden Rule.

Many Hungarian Unitarians embrace the principles of rationalist Unitarianism.

" Many classical rabbis, especially Maimonides, viewed all such beliefs as a violation of Judaic principles of faith.

Many of the same decisions and principles that apply in other criminal investigations and arrests arise also in civil disobedience cases.

Many early and pre-socialist movements as well as later ones drew principles from the Gospels ( see Christian socialism and the Social Gospel movement ) and against the " values " of profiteering, greed, selfishness and hoarding.

Many critics of Smart Growth point to deficiences in Smart Growth regulations — it is hard to criticize principles that promote " best practices ," " stewardship ," and " quality of life.

Many documents were written about history, geography, medicine, and Confucian principles.

Many other people accept some of the basic principles of social justice, such as the idea that all human beings have a basic level of value, but disagree with the elaborate conclusions that may or may not follow from this.

Many martial artists who study Japanese martial arts know the principles of kenjutsu.

Many of the systems that Lee studied were not to develop his " Personal JKD " but rather was used to gather the " principles " for incorporation in the JKD Framework approach.

Many of Spinoza's ideas continue to vex thinkers today and many of his principles, particularly regarding the emotions, have implications for modern approaches to psychology.