But the interpretation of Baldr as " the brave god " may be secondary.

Dumezil's interpretation appears deliberately to ignore that of James G. Frazer, who links Diana with the male god Janus as a divine couple.

Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart ; let him produce a psalm, a vision, a prayer -- only let it be by the Spirit, in an ecstasy, that is, in a rapture, whenever an interpretation of tongues has occurred to him ; let him show to me also, that any woman of boastful tongue in his community has ever prophesied from amongst those specially holy sisters of his.

" Nomani notes that in his book No god but God, University of Southern California professor Reza Aslan wrote that " misogynistic interpretation " has dogged An-Nisa, 34 because Koranic commentary " has been the exclusive domain of Muslim men.

Pantheists thus do not believe in a personal or anthropomorphic god, but differ in exact interpretation of the term.

HWY in Arabic is connected with falling or causing to fall, leading to an interpretation of Yahweh as a storm god whose name means " He who causes to fall " ( meaning rain, lightning, and his enemies ) or " He causes storms ".

" The most likely interpretation of this passage is as two variants on the same syncretism of Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth ( or sometimes other gods ); the one viewed from the Greek-Arcadian perspective ( the fifth, who went from Greece to Egypt ), the other viewed from the Egyptian perspective ( the fourth, where Hermes turns out " actually " to have been a " son of the Nile ," i. e. a native god ).

" A common interpretation of the representation of " Trismegistus " as " thrice great " recalls the three characterizations of Idris: as a messenger of god, or a prophet ; as a source of wisdom, or hikmet ( wisdom from hokmah ); and as a king of the world order, or a " sultanate.

Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Khmun, later renamed Hermopolis Magna during the Greco-Roman era ( in reference to him through the Greeks ' interpretation that he was the same as their god Hermes ) and Eshmûnên in the Coptic rendering.

Besides heathen beliefs, part of the NSBM scene embraces an interpretation of Satanism, depicting Satan as an ancient Aryan counterpart to Yahweh, the god of the Jews and Christians.

The exact interpretation of the inscription is debated, but the phrase " to Luguei " ( where the theonym appears in the dative singular following the preposition to " to, for ", thus " to / for Lugus ") clearly indicates a dedication to the god Lugus.

* 神 " Shin " or " kami " means god or spirit-the English interpretation of " spirit " works better as " Nine Gods God School " sounds redundant and creates problems in comprehension.

The interpretation of Janus as the god of beginnings and transitions is based on a third etymology indicated by Cicero, Ovid and

A similar solar interpretation has been offered by A. Audin who interprets the god as the issue of a long process of development, starting with the Sumeric cultures, from the two solar pillars located on the eastern side of temples, each of them marking the direction of the rising sun at the dates of the two solstices: the southeastern corresponding to the Winter and the northeastern to the Summer solstice.

Other scholars, mainly German, think it is related on the contrary to the martial character of the god Quirinus, an interpretation supported by numerous ancient sources: Lydus, Cedrenus, Macrobius, Ovid, Plutarch and Paul the Daecon.

Among English-speaking scholars Frazer and Cook have suggested an interpretation of Janus as uranic supreme god.

This interpretation would then identify Janus with Greek god Hermes.

( A popular belief, and common interpretation, is that the first element should be the genitive case of the name of the Norse god Týr-but this does not fit either with the Sami form or the oldest spellings of the name.

The identity of the last has been understood as corresponding to Roman gods Quirinus or Liber, the former from an IE root * leudh-meaning people, the latter either directly from the Italic theonym Loifer or through the intermediary of the Italic or Etruscan interpretation of Greek god ( Dionysos ) Eleutheros, recorded also in the Etruscan theonym Tin Luth (= Iuppiter Liber ) of the Piacenza Liver.

Most days he could be found in his chosen part of town wearing clothes he had created based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Odin.

In 2008 an interpretation of Spearthrower Owl-related iconography at Teotihuacán suggested that Spearthrower Owl was an important military god at Teotihuacán that had his given name to both a place known as " Spearthrower Owl Hill " and to the ruler mentioned in the Maya hieroglyphic texts.

An interpretation of the semitic god Dagon as a " fish-god "

An alternative interpretation sees the central head as the image of a water god such as the image of Oceanus, and yet another as a Celtic sun god.

It is worth noting Ian Woods advice that although Gregory provides the fullest information for this period, where it touches Merovingian affairs, he often " allowed his religious bias to determine his interpretation of the events.

Schleiermacher wondered whether there could be a hermeneutics that was not a collection of pieces of ad hoc advice for the solution of specific problems with text interpretation but rather a " general hermeneutics ," which dealt with the " art of understanding " as such, which pertained to the structure and function of understanding wherever it occurs.

Following advice from Ram Dass, Lilly studied Patanjali's system of yoga ( finding I. K. Taimni's Science of Yoga, a modernized interpretation of the Sanskrit text, most suited to his goals ).

However, in Roman Law states or provinces, notaries or " title attorneys ", provide many of the same services as a lawyer ( negotiation and drafting of contracts, legal advice, settlement of estates, creation of a company and its statuts, writing of wills and power of attorney, interpretation of the law, mediation, etc ...) except any involvement in disputes to be presented before a court.

In other programs, a guest expert offered advice or interpretation.

The Court's advisory function enables it to respond to consultations submitted by OAS agencies and member states regarding the interpretation of the Convention or other instruments governing human rights in the Americas ; it also empowers it to give advice on domestic laws and proposed legislation, and to clarify whether or not they are compatible with the Convention's provisions.

He gave Anan Ben David advice which saved his life: He should set himself to expound all ambiguous precepts of the Torah in a fashion opposed to the traditional interpretation, and make this principle the foundation of a new religious etc.

In 1930 the, then, Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, started a statistical unit to assist the State Departments of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in planning their experiments, analysis of experimental data, interpretation of results and rendering advice on the formulation of the technical programmes of the Council.

## and provision of advice on interpretation, infringement and validity.

Overall, it bears a mystical interpretation of Islam and contains spiritual advice.

**** Culture Services Unit-developed and coordinated guidelines and tools for service delivery, provided advice and interpretation of relevant legislation and conducted stakeholder education, training and outreach on key cultural initiatives.

This department provides expert advice in the interpretation and use of statistical techniques in psychological research.

BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;

In looking back over the volumes, it is possible to find errors of interpretation, some of which were not so evident at the time of writing.

But as a stimulating, provocative interpretation of the broad sweep of English development it is incomparable.

And we can add that Krutch's interpretation of purgation is also one answer to Plato's fear that poetry will encourage our passions.

It is no longer possible to say that a sceptical attitude towards the received accounts of the invasions almost automatically produces a `` shore occupied by '' interpretation.

Yet we who lean upon such a man and draw strength from him and expect interpretation of the infinite through him -- we who readily accept his sacrifice as our due, we of the congregations are the first to tell him what is in our minds instead of listening to what is in his soul.

Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

Assistance is rendered to interested Rhode Island businessmen concerning interpretation of bid invitations, where to obtain specifications, and follow-ups concerning qualification.

This is a serious-minded interpretation, but it is never strait-laced.

Every detail in his interpretation has been beautifully thought out, and of these I would especially cite the delicious laendler touch the pianist brings to the fifth variation ( an obvious indication that he is playing with Viennese musicians ), and the gossamer shading throughout.

Willingness to take the risk of early and direct interpretation ( with the proviso that if the interpretation is too threatening, the worker can withdraw ) is another prominent feature in these efforts.

Since a national interpretation cannot be avoided it is unfortunate that the elections were not held in a way to maximize party responsibility and the educational effect of mass political participation.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

He has advised me that the narrower interpretation is the proper one ; ;

It will be recalled from the discussion in Section 7 that the position of the `` right '', as represented by Barth, rests on the following thesis: The only tenable alternative to Bultmann's position is a theology that ( 1 ) rejects or at least qualifies his unconditioned demand for demythologization and existential interpretation ; ;

and, most pervasively, ( 3 ) their interpretation of who is a `` real pro '', of what it means to be a professional man in a technical, fragmented society.

It is Martin Heidegger, not Nietzsche, who elaborated a new interpretation of Aristotle, intended to warrant his deconstruction of scholastic and philosophical tradition.

His interpretation of the Pauline phrase is that we should seek the common good more than the private good, but this is because the common good is a more desirable good for the individual.