The poems are pervaded by deep pessimism and preoccupation with death, without religious consolation.

No fewer than 545 titles, ranging from satirical poems, political and religious pamphlets and volumes have been ascribed to Defoe ( note: in their Critical Bibliography ( 1998 ), Furbank and Owens argue for the much smaller number of 276 published items ).

Similar messianic imagery appeared in popular songs and poems, and in Congress-sponsored religious pageants and celebrations.

In addition to Biblical paraphrases are a number of original religious poems, mostly lyrical ( non-narrative ).

Taken together, its 150 poems " express virtually the full range of Israel's religious faith.

Religious beliefs were deeply instilled in the people of the time, which gave much influence to the clergy, and the prosecution of poets who made statements contradictory to religious messages were prevalent, as was the case with Hafiz ( whose house was raided several times, and was forced to burn some of his more liberal poems ) and Ferdowsi ( who was branded a heretic and was not permitted to be buried in the Muslims graveyard ).

In several of his poems and speeches, Hassan emphasized that the British " have destroyed our religion and made our children their children " and that the Christian Ethiopians in league with the British were bent upon plundering the political and religious freedom of the Somali nation.

Whether the poems themselves are considered to constitute prophecies, or simply poems created after the events they appear to prophesy, tends to depend on whether the commentator is religious or not.

There were poems which went under the name of Phemonoe, like the old religious poems which were ascribed to Orpheus, Musaeus, and the other mythological bards.

The rest comprises some poems addressing mythological and religious topics as well as a few works such as ' Armes Prydein Vawr ', the content of which implies that they were by later authors.

Droste's earliest poems are derivative and conventional but in 1820 her work began to show marked originality when she embarked on a cycle of religious poems, Das geistliche Jahr (" The Spiritual Year ").

His Aetia (" Causes "), another rare longer work surviving only in tattered papyrus fragments and quotations in later authors, was a collection of elegiac poems in four books, dealing with the foundation of cities, obscure religious ceremonies, unique local traditions apparently chosen for their oddity, and other customs, throughout the Hellenic world In the first three books at least, the formula appears to ask a question of the Muse, of the form, " Why, on Paros, do worshippers of the Charites use neither flutes nor crowns?

Liturgical Jewish poetry in Hebrew flourished in Palestine in the seventh and eighth centuries with the writings of Yose ben Yose, Yanai, and Eleazar Kalir Later Jewish poets in Spain, Provencal, and Italy wrote both religious and secular poems in Hebrew ; particularly prominent poets were the Spanish Jewish poets Solomon ibn Gabirol and Yehuda Halevi.

There are a great many other poems by Ibn Ezra, some of them religious ( the editor of the " Diwan " in an appended list mentions nearly 200 numbers ) and some secular-about love, friendship, wine,

He wrote two long poems on theological and religious themes.

Some were designed as decoration for religious art-works, including wing -, axe-and altar-shaped poems.

The Historiated Bible, the Letter from Heaven, the Wanderings through Heaven and Hell, the numerous Adam and Cross legends, the religious poems of the " Kaliki perehozhie " and other similar productions owe their dissemination to a large extent to the activity of the Bogomils of Bulgaria, and their successors in other lands.

The poems, while by no means of equal literary merit, are generally characterised by delicate and true poetic feeling, and refined and often extremely felicitous language ; and it is a proof of the fidelity to nature with which its themes are treated that the book has become a religious classic with readers far removed from the author's ecclesiastical standpoint and general school of thought.

In his later years Desmarets devoted himself chiefly to producing a number of religious poems, of which the best known is perhaps his verse translation of the Office de la Vierge ( 1645 ).

Other than his Latin motets of a religious nature and some poems invoking the horrors of war and captivity, the vast majority of Machaut's lyric poems partake of the conventions of courtly love and involve statements of service to a lady and the poet's pleasure and pains.

Although his religious poems sufficiently prove the sincerity of his Catholicism, he remained to the end of his days opposed to the extreme claims of the popes, whom he attacks with a bitterness which can be justified only by the strength of his patriotic feelings.

Chinese astrology has a close relation with Chinese philosophy ( theory of the three harmonies: heaven, earth and man ) and uses concepts such as yin and yang, the Five phases, the 10 Celestial stems, the 12 Earthly Branches, and shichen ( 時辰 a form of timekeeping used for religious purposes ).

" Their basic religious practices are enumerated in the Five Pillars of Islam, which, in addition to Shahadah, consist of daily prayers ( salat ), fasting during Ramadan ( sawm ), almsgiving ( zakat ), and the pilgrimage to Mecca ( hajj ) at least once in a lifetime.

Imperial authority was also seriously challenged by large Daoist religious societies which instigated the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion.

By the 2nd century CE, Daoists formed large hierarchical religious societies such as the Way of the Five Pecks of Rice.

The Corporation Act 1661 required municipal officeholders to swear allegiance ; the Act of Uniformity 1662 made the use of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer compulsory ; the Conventicle Act 1664 prohibited religious assemblies of more than five people, except under the auspices of the Church of England ; and the Five Mile Act 1665 prohibited clergymen from coming within five miles ( 8 km ) of a parish from which they had been banished.

It includes the Thyatian Empire, which could be compared to Byzantine Empire ; the Grand Duchy of Karameikos ( which includes the town of Threshold, the default setting of many classic D & D adventures ), comparable to medieval southeastern Europe ; the Principalities of Glantri, which is similar to medieval western Europe, ruled by wizard-princes ; the Ethengar Khanate, a Mongol-like society ; the merchant-run Republic of Darokin, which is based somewhat loosely on the mercantile states of Medieval Italy ; the Emirates of Ylaruam which have an Arabic flavor ; the Heldannic Territories, ruled by an order of religious Knights devoted to the Immortal Vanya, similar to the Teutonic Knights ; the Atruaghin Clans, which have an Amerindian feel ; the nation of Sind, based on India during the rule of the Mughals ; the Northern Reaches Kingdoms of Ostland, Vestland, the Soderfjord Jarldoms, based on Scandinavian kingdoms at various periods of history ; the Dwarven nation of Rockhome ; the elven Kingdom of Alfheim ; the Halfling lands of the Five Shires ; and the Alphatian Empire, ruled by wizards and other spellcasters.

Major religious works include the triptychs in oil, The Feeding of the Five Thousand ( 1929 ), for the chapel in Llandaff House, a home for destitute women at Penarth, Wales, and The Parable of the Great Supper ( 1934 ) for St. George's Chapel, Waddon.

Although the word " Torah " refers specifically to the Five Books of Moses, in Judaism the word also refers to the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ), the Talmud and other religious works, even including the study of Kabbalah, Hasidism, Mussar and much more.

The Five Gospels says that the non-apocalyptic view gained ground in the 1970s and 1980s when research into Jesus shifted out of religious environments and into secular academia.

* Five counts of crimes against humanity ( Article 5 thereof-extermination ; murder ; persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds ; deportation ; alternatively, inhumane acts )

The Five Civilized Tribes were Indigenous peoples of the Americas who lived in the Southeastern United States, and most were descendants of what we now call the Mississippian culture, an agrarian culture that grew crops of corn and beans, with hereditary religious and political elites, that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from 800 to 1500 C. E.

The 613 commandments (: taryag mitzvot, " 613 Mitzvot "; Biblical Hebrew: Miṣwoth ) is a numbering of the statements and principles of law, ethics, and spiritual practice which have been derived by religious interpretation of the Torah or Five Books of Moses.

The term Five Percent comes from NOI doctrine that sees the world's population divided into three groups: 85 % of the people are blind to the knowledge of themselves and God, while 10 % of the people know the truth, but teach a lie for their personal gain ; seen as part of this 10 % are religious leaders that teach that God is an incorporeal being ( hence the term mystery God ).

Five centuries of Ottoman rule grouped the Albanian people along religious, regional, and tribal lines.

In 1923 she joined the Poor Clare Colettines at their convent in Notting Hill in west London where she took the religious name Sister Mary Francis of the Five Wounds.

Five years earlier in 1547 the Act of Suppression, part of the wider Dissolution of the Monasteries, provided for the confiscation of all assets of religious guilds except an amount of land with an annual income of £ 21 ( two thirds of the original lands ) if the guild supported a school.

Five worker caste members hold seats on the council, with two each from the warrior and religious caste.

In Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy and In This House of Brede she acutely examined the balance between the mystical, spiritual aspects of religion and the practical, human realities of religious life.

Also known as Xiyuè, Western Great Mountain, it is one of China's Five Great Mountains, and has a long history of religious significance.

" Five Trees " in Paradise is a mysterious allegory or concept from famous Coptic Gospel of Thomas NHC 2: ( gnostic library from Nag Hammadi in Egypt ) 19th saying / logia of Jesus and other sources of religious mythology.

Clarence Edward Smith, ( February 22, 1928 – June 12, 1969 ) better known by his assumed names Clarence 13X and Allah, was an American religious leader who founded the Five Percent movement, a group that split from the Nation of Islam ( NOI ).

* Five American Muslims sue the Department of Homeland Security for racial profiling after they were detained for hours on the Canadian border while returning from a religious conference.

In the Qianlong era, scholar Wei Shu ( 魏塾 ) commented on Jiangtong's ( 江统 ) essay Xironglun ( 徙戎论 ) that if the Muslims didn't migrate out they were going to be like the Five Hu 五胡, who overthrew the Western Jin, which resulted in ethnic ( not religious ) conflict between the Wu Hu and Han Chinese.

Five days later, on December 10, published reports by the Associated Press indicated that the university ( would ) " remove the religion clause from the ( university's anti-discrimination ) policy for the Christian fraternity to settle this particular situation and is discussing an exception to religious discrimination ( that ) could be put into place much like an exception to gender discrimination is in place for same-sex social fraternities and sororities.