More often a connection with Hebrew / Phoenician ' brazier ' has been proposed, in the sense of " Baal ( lord ) of the brazier ".

* Le Page Renouf thought that " Tarshish " means a coast, and, as the word occurs frequently in connection with Tyre, the Phoenician coast is to be understood.

The connection between the name of Cadmus and the historical origins of either the Linear B script or the later Phoenician alphabet, if any, remains elusive.

Some scholars of the early 20th century proposed a connection between Phalaris ' bull and the bull-images of Phoenician cults ( cf.

The only interruptions occurred in 1813-1814, occasioned by the German War of Liberation ( War of the Sixth Coalition ), during which the university was closed, and those occasioned by two prolonged literary tours, first in 1820 to Paris, London and Oxford with his colleague Johann Karl Thilo ( 1794 – 1853 ) for the examination of rare oriental manuscripts, and in 1835 to England and the Netherlands in connection with his Phoenician studies.

More often a connection with Hebrew / Phoenician ' brazier ' has been proposed, in the sense of " Baal ( lord ) of the brazier ".

This archaeological stone contains a Southwest Paleohispanic script, using Tartessian script and language, identified as being the most ancient paleohispanic script ; related to the Phoenician alphabet, it is the closest European connection to the Phoenician culture.

In this connection it should be observed that the old Milesian nobles traced their descent back to the Phoenician or one of his companions.

Students of anthropology and comparative religion had long been aware that there was, indeed, a direct connection.

According to the 2001 edition of the National Jewish Population Survey, in the United States ' Jewish community — the world's second largest — 4. 3 million Jews out of 5. 1 million had some sort of connection to the religion.

The Berbers went on to shape Islam in their own image – some ( like the Banu Ifran ) retained their connection with radical puritan Islamic sects, others ( like the Berghwata ) constructed a new syncretic faith which was simply folk religion thinly disguised as Islam.

Following the success of The Stranglers ' previous four albums they were given complete freedom for their next, The Gospel According to The Meninblack, a concept album exploring religion and the supposed connection between religious phenomena and extraterrestrial visitors.

Also in 1979, in the first revised edition of " Real Magic ", Bonewits defined " thealogy " in his Glossary as " Intellectual speculations concerning the nature of the Goddess and Her relations to the world in general and humans in particular ; rational explanations of religious doctrines, practices and beliefs, which may or may not bear any connection to any religion as actually conceived and practiced by the majority of its members.

Egyptian religion posited the survival of the soul in connection with the survival of a physical receptacle for the soul-hence mummification and portraiture flourished as a vital part of Egyptian religion.

The Franks claimed to be descendents of the Trojans, and the Romans also claimed descent, this claim to Trojan descent by the Franks helped form a common identity of a shared religion and a genealogical connection with their Roman neighbors.

Legislators rewrote all of the human rights laws in the state, restricting discrimination based on " race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, or unfavorable discharge from military service in connection with employment, real estate transactions, access to financial credit, and the availability of public accommodations.

The connection between intolerance and blasphemy laws is closest when the laws apply to only one religion.

Whatever the connection between the Mexican and her older Spanish namesake, the fused iconography of the Virgin and the indigenous Nahua goddess Tonantzin provided a way for 16th-century Spaniards to gain converts among the indigenous population, while simultaneously allowing 16th century Mexicans to continue the practice of their native religion.

The pansy ’ s connection to religion is also mentioned by Harte, who writes: “ From brute beasts humility I learned ;/ And in the pansy ’ s life God ’ s providence discerned ”.

Dawkins defines the " symptoms " of being infected by the " virus of religion ", providing examples for most of them, and tries to define a connection between the elements of religion and its survival value ( invoking Zahavi's handicap principle of sexual selection, applied to believers of a religion ).

This theory was not only remarkable for its rationalism but for its discernment of a close connection between religion and agriculture.

Moreover, the connection between mythology and politics differs for each of the mythologists in question: in Eliade's case, Ellwood believes, a strong sense of nostalgia (" for childhood, for historical times past, for cosmic religion, for paradise "), influenced not only the scholar's academic interests, but also his political views.

Furthermore, some see a connection between Eliade's essentialism with regard to religion and fascist essentialism with regard to races and nations.

Stelios Papadimitriou, president of the foundation, has remarked: " We are not going to turn the Onassis Foundation over to someone who has no connection with our culture, our religion, our language or our shared experiences, and who never went to college or worked a day in her life.

His Philosophia Pia ( 1671 ) was explicitly about the connection between the " experimental philosophy " of the Royal Society and religion.

The adjective " religious " means that the experience occurs in connection with religious activities or is interpreted in context of a religion.

At the same time he sought to bring religious feeling into closer connection with knowledge and volition than Schleiermacher had done ; he laid special stress-and justly-on the recognition of a necessary and radical union of religion with morality, treating both dogmatics and ethics together accordingly in his System der christlichen Lehre " ( Otto Pfleiderer, Development of Theology, p. 123 ).

The connection with the Quranic Sabians provided them acknowledgement as People of the Book, a legal minority religion within the Muslim Empire.

The elements of nature, death, religion, are formed together to create this connection between the pavilion and outside intrusions.

His family, like many Wallaces, claimed a connection to William Wallace, a Scottish patriot and leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 13th century.

Barrès claimed that authoritarian democracy involved spiritual connection between a leader of a nation and the nation's people, and that true freedom did not arise from individual rights nor parliamentary restraints, but through " heroic leadership " and " national power ".

In 1978, Hayek came into conflict with the Liberal Party leader, David Steel, who claimed that liberty was possible only with " social justice and an equitable distribution of wealth and power, which in turn require a degree of active government intervention " and that the Conservative Party were more concerned with the connection between liberty and private enterprise than between liberty and democracy.

It has been claimed that her association with dogs is " suggestive of her connection with birth, for the dog was sacred to Eileithyia, Genetyllis, and other birth goddesses.

Another legendary object that is claimed to have some connection with the Templars is the Shroud of Turin.

In connection with this, he promoted a radical solution in the disputed area of Upper Silesia, claimed by both Poland and Germany ; his suggestion that this area be granted at least provisional independence led to his being publicly accused of being a traitor to Germany.

A connection of the medieval feis of Samhain with pre-Christian traditions was drawn by the " notoriously unreliable " Geoffrey Keating ( died 1644 ), who claimed that the druids of Ireland would assemble on the night of Samhain to kindle a sacred fire.

In another case, parents claimed dioxin from pollution caused the death of their 8-year-old daughter ; the trial took place in the summer of 2007, and a jury wholly rejected the family's claims, as no scientific connection could be proven between DuPont and the family's tragic loss.

" The connection between rights and struggle cannot be overstated — rights are not as much granted or endowed as they are fought for and claimed, and the essence of struggles past and ancient are encoded in the spirit of current concepts of rights and their modern formulations.

The actual location of the historical kingdom was disputed Owing to the connection with the Queen of Sheba, the location has become closely linked with national prestige, as various royal houses have claimed descent from the Queen of Sheba and Solomon.

Owing to the connection with the Queen of Sheba, the location has thus become closely linked with national prestige, as various royal houses have claimed descent from the Queen of Sheba and Solomon.

Dane, in an article characterized as " polemics without rigor " claimed that the appearance of the theme in Ancient Greek poetry, a tradition without known connection to the Germanic, invalidated the notion of " an autonomous theme in the baggage of an oral poet.

Hatsumi's claimed connection to Ninjutsu is through his teacher Takamatsu Toshitsugu.

Even though the anarchists claimed to have no connection to Passannante, Malatesta, being an advocate of social revolution, was included in this surveillance.

Until the 1790s, the government at Albany claimed Vermont, and its only practical connection to Vermont was by the Hoosick Road.

The often claimed connection between the movement and Bektashi Sufism is based merely on circumstantial evidence and coincidence rather than any concrete substantiation.

After discounting the signers whose credentials were inflated, irrelevant, false, or unverifiable, Hesselager claimed that only 20 of the names on the list had any scientific connection with the study of climate change, and some of those names were known to have obtained grants from the oil and fuel industry, including the German coal industry and the government of Kuwait ( a major oil exporter ).

* Alexis Brimeyer, a Belgian who claimed connection to various European royal houses.

* Eugenio Lascorz who claimed connection to the royal house of the Byzantine Empire.

' Davie claimed ‘ there is no necessary connection between the poetic vocation on the one hand, and on the other exhibitionism, egoism, and licence '.

Immanuel Kant, a central figure of the Age of Enlightenment, likewise claimed that two things filled his mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily they were reflected on: " the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me ... the latter begins from my invisible self, my personality, and exhibits me in a world which has true infinity but which I recognise myself as existing in a universal and necessary ( and not only, as in the first case, contingent ) connection.

In real life, tabloid publications claimed a romantic connection between them, an assertion both denied.