Their written repositories of traditional knowledge, the Books of Chilam Balam, were all ascribed to one famous oracle priest who correctly had predicted the coming of the Spaniards and its associated disasters.

After the project was anathemized by the Roman Church the former Maya collaborators collected and reconstructed as much as they could and assembled them into a loose collection of texts which is now known as the Books of Chilam Balam ( Roys 1933 ).

The Books of Chilam Balam, (' Spokesman of the Patron '), ( Barrera Vasquez 1948, Roys 1933, Edmonson 1982, 1987, Bricker & Miram 2001 ).

Contents of the Books of Chilam Balam include daily reminders for diviners, natal charts for each day, rituals associated with each day, the selection, training and initiation of Maya calendar priests, a Maya rosary prayer, a divination prayer, sacrifices at the sacred well of Chich ' en Itza ', auto sacrifice, pilgrimage places, the Maya years and cycles, advice to a woman already seven months pregnant, and Maya family life.

Moreover, in the Mayan world there are preserved fragments called Books of Chilam Balam.

The so-called Books of Chilam Balam are handwritten, chiefly 17th and 18th-centuries Maya miscellanies, named after the small Yucatec towns where they were originally kept, and preserving important traditional knowledge in which indigenous Maya and early Spanish traditions have coalesced.

Nine Books of Chilam Balam are known, most importantly those from Chumayel, Mani, and Tizimin, but many more have existed.

Taken together, the Books of Chilam Balam give the fullness of 18th-century Yucatec-Maya spiritual life.

To date ( 2012 ), complete English translations are available for the following Books of Chilam Balam:

* Antje Gunsenheimer: Geschichtstradierung in den yukatekischen Chilam Balam-Büchern (' The Transmission of History in the Yucatec Books of Chilam Balam ', German )

The Paris Codex ( also or formerly the Codex Peresianus ) contains prophecies for tuns and katuns ( see Maya Calendar ), as well as a Maya zodiac, and is thus, in both respects, akin to the Books of Chilam Balam.

Most of our knowledge of ancient Hebrew medicine during the 1st millennium BC comes from the Torah, i. e. the Five Books of Moses, which contain various health related laws and rituals, such as isolating infected people ( Leviticus 13: 45-46 ), washing after handling a dead body ( Numbers 19: 11-19 ) and burying excrement away from camp ( Deuteronomy 23: 12-13 ).

Most of our knowledge of ancient Hebrew medicine during the 1st millennium BC comes from the Torah, i. e. the Five Books of Moses, which contain various health related laws and rituals.

It is named after one of the Rainbow Books, a series of books ( bound in different colors ) that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.

Textual scholars ascribe this narrative to the monarchial source of the Books of Samuel ; the rival source, known as the republican source ( named this due to its negative presentation of David, Saul, and other kings ), does not at first glance appear to contain a similar narrative.

Book I contains 8 chapters, Books II and III contain 4, and Book IV consists of only one short chapter.

There sometimes exists two Books of Shadows kept by some traditional Wiccans, one being a book of core rituals and practises which remains unchanged and from which new initiates copy, and the second being a coven book, intended for ritual use, which differs from group to group and may contain much added material ( such as astrology, herbal lore, and information regarding divination ), and such material is often traded between covens.

Books thought to contain such errors included some scientific works by leading astronomers such as Johannes Kepler's Epitome astronomiae Copernicianae, which was on the Index from 1621 to 1835.

::" president Eisenhower's Appointment Books contain no entry for a special meeting on July 16, 1954 which might have included a briefing on MJ-12.

Even when the President had ' off the record ' meetings, the Appointment Books contain entries indicating the time of the meeting and the participants ...

* Books by Anna Rosmus contain multiple photos of Braunau in 1945: Valhalla Finale, 350 pp, Dorfmeister, Tittling, 2009, ( hardcover ) ISBN 3-9810084-7-2. and Ragnarök, 464 pp, Dorfmeister, Tittling, 2010, ( hardcover ) ISBN 3-9810084-8-0

* Books 1 & 2, prose texts, contain two versions of a very stylized history of creation and of Mandaeism.

Books in the series often contain one or more " monsters ," but these are not mythical creatures, rather being some type of ferocious predator.

Textual scholars ascribe this narrative to the republican source of the Books of Samuel ( named this due to its generally negative presentation of David and Saul ); the rival source, known as the monarchial source, does not at first glace appear to contain a similar narrative.

The lyrics, written by Tanya Hadlock-Piltz ( Annapolis Class of 2005 )., contain references to some of the texts read in the school's Great Books program, including The Iliad, and Plato's Theory of Forms.

The accomplished design, together with the high level of craftsmanship, clearly indicate a metropolitan origin for the majority of these pieces, but unfortunately the surviving Shaftesbury Account Books contain few references to London cabinet-makers other than William Hallett, his name appearing a number of times between 1745 and 1757 with references to ' carved chairs ,' ' the Blew Bed ,' and ' Mahogany Cisterns.

Books I and III of Epidemics contain forty-two case histories, of which 60 % ( 25 ) ended in the patient's death.

His works such as the two Jungle Books contain a great deal of stories that are written after the manner of traditional folktales.

Books 14 and 15 ( all fragments ) also contain fragmentary references to Laelius in Africa.

Books 5-8 are noted because they are the first to contain in-depth articles.

Books purchased on iTunes have a. m4b extension ( a variation on MP4 ), and contain AAC audio covered by Apple's FairPlay Digital Rights Management.

Because Znamenny Chant requires a specific manner of performance, the Chant Books contain several instructions as to dynamics and tempo.

In 1761 he announced the discovery of an epic on the subject of Fingal ( related to the Irish mythological character Fionn mac Cumhaill / Finn McCool ) written by Ossian ( based on Fionn's son Oisín ), and in December he published Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language, written in the musical measured prose of which he had made use in his earlier volume.

Some scholars believe that passages such as these in the Books of Kings were not written by the same authors who wrote the rest of the text, instead probably by the Deuteronomist.

Some claim that Virgil meant to change them before he died, while others find that the location of the two passages, at the very end of the so-called Volume I ( Books 1 – 6, the Odyssey ), and Volume II ( Books 7 – 12, the Iliad ), and their short length, which contrasts with the lengthy nature of the poem, are evidence that Virgil placed them purposefully there.

Adherents of source criticism suggest that references to a woman called Ahinoam being Saul's wife belong to the account of the republican source of the Books of Samuel, while in the passages ascribed to the monarchial source, the only mention of a woman called Ahinoam is the description of her as a wife of David.

This view is offered as a hypothesis to explain the reason for cherubim being described as acting as the chariot of the in Ezekiel's visions, the Books of Samuel, the parallel passages in the later Book of Chronicles, and passages in the early Psalms: " and he rode upon a cherub and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind ".

The doctrine is further supported by passages in the Books of Daniel, Isaiah and the Revelation:

Only the Old Bailey trial against Penguin Books for alleged obscenity in publishing the unexpurgated paperback edition of the novel prevented the play's transfer to the much bigger Wyndham's Theatre, for which it had already been licensed by the Lord Chamberlain's Office on 12 August 1960 with passages censored.

The canticle echoes several Old Testament biblical passages, but the most pronounced allusions are to the Song of Hannah, from the Books of Samuel ().

The original Pocket Books edition of The Trick Top Hat contains many passages, some sexually explicit, that are not included in later editions, including the Dell softcover.

It is significant that the Books of Kings treat it as a place of holiness, suggesting that stone circles still had a positive religious value at the time the source text of the passages in question was written, rather than having been condemned as heathen by religious reforms.

Many of the passages use the patterns of repetition identified by scholars such as Robert Alter and others as being characteristic of Biblical poetry .< ref > Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Poetry, Basic Books, 1987 </ REF >

There have been a number of books of the dead mentioned in the background material-the nine " Books of Nagash ", the " Liber Mortis " of Vanhal-but none of these has ever appeared as more than passing references or small passages.

* D. W. Hamlyn, Aristotle De Anima, Books II and III ( with passages from Book I ), translated with Introduction and Notes by D. W. Hamlyn, with a Report on Recent Work and a Revised Bibliography by Christopher Shields ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968 ).

The Millo was a structure in Jerusalem first mentioned in the book of 2 Samuel 5: 9 and corresponding passages in the Books of Chronicles and the Books of Kings ,.

Dick originally completed the manuscript of Solar Lottery in March 1954 ; in December he completed a second draft at the request of Ace Books Editor Donald Wollheim, cutting six passages totalling as much as ten thousand words and adding perhaps seven thousand.

Biblical scholars also believe that this right was the context underlying the account in the Books of Kings of Joab and Adonijah each fleeing from Solomon to an altar, with their opponents being unwilling to attack them while they remained there ; textual scholars regard these passages as being part of the Court History of David, which they date to the 9th century BC, or earlier.