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seer and thought
The name " Vatican " has often been thought to derive from the Latin " vates ", meaning " seer, soothsayer ", though this is uncertain and it is also possible that " Vaticanus " comes from an unrelated Etruscan loan-word.
The word " file " is thought to derive from the Proto-Celtic * widluios, meaning " seer, one who sees " ( attested on the Gaulish inscription from Larzac as " uidluias ", which is the feminine genitive singular form ), derived ultimately from the verb * widlu -, " to see ".
Another source of apocalyptic thought was primitive mythological and cosmological traditions, in which the eye of the seer could see the secrets of the future.
That possibility is the discovery of a closer approximation to what we might call the mantra in poetry that rhythmic speech which, as the Veda puts it, rises at once from the heart of the seer and from the distant home of the Truth,the discovery of the word, the divine movement, the form of thought proper to the reality which, as Mr. Cousins excellently says,
Before the battle in Babylon, Alexander states that the lunar eclipse which some of his men thought was a bad omen means that " the Persian moon will be eclipsed by the Macedonian Sun " with which Aristander the seer agrees.

seer and baby
According to legend, Gung Ye was born on the traditional holiday of Dano ; the royal seer prophesied that a baby born on Dano would bring disaster to the nation, and the court officials and royal family members urged to the king to get rid of the evil infant.

seer and would
According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.
Astonished, Amphitryon sent for the seer Tiresias, who prophesied an unusual future for the boy, saying he would vanquish numerous monsters.
He also predicted that a seer named after Joseph, and whose father's name is also Joseph, would the Lord raise up, for the purpose of restoring Israel.
According to Plutarch, a seer had foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March ; and on his way to the Theatre of Pompey ( where he would be assassinated ), Caesar met the seer and joked, " The ides of March have come ", meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied " Aye, Caesar ; but not gone.
The nymph asked the seer if her son would live to see the old age of senescence, to which Teiresias replied " if he does not know himself.
This dream was interpreted by the seer Aesacus as a foretelling of the downfall of Troy, and he declared that the child would be the ruin of his homeland.
Zetes demured, fearing the wrath of the gods should they deliver Phineus from divine punishment, but the old seer assured him that he and his brother Calais would face no retribution.
Chloris, daughter of Orchomenus, married the seer Ampyx ( son of Elatus ), with whom she had a child Mopsus who also became a renowned seer and would later join the Argonauts.
According to Aelian, the seer Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid to rest " would be happy and unvanquishable forever ".
Two centuries earlier a Welsh seer, Robin Ddu (" Robin the Dark ") said the roof on the refectory would do very nicely on a little church under Moel Famau.
As a pun, a ' sightseer ' is a tourist who looks at the sights, so a ' cite seer ' would be a researcher who looks at cited papers.
When she was born, a seer predicted that she would die for her country.
An oracle had it that he would die when he would meet a better seer than himself.
It was at this meeting he was told by a Chaldean seer that he would die at the height of his fame and fortune.
Dixon claimed that while growing up in California, a " gypsy " gave her a crystal ball and read her palm, predicting she would become a famous " seer " and advise powerful people.
David Whitmer said when Smith translated the Book of Mormon, he " put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light ; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine.

seer and be
A typical example can be found in 2 Chronicles 9: 29 and references the work Acts of Solomon and, additionally, several unknown prophets, such as Ahijah the Shilonite and the seer Ido.
I don't care what his position is, if he writes something or speaks something that goes beyond anything that you can find in the standard works, unless that one be the prophet, seer, and revelator — please note that one exception — you may immediately say, " Well, that is his own idea!
According to another tradition, Richard consulted a seer in the city of Leicester before the battle who foretold that " where your spur should strike on the ride into battle, your head shall be broken on the return.
Saul's servant however, remarked that they happened to be near the town of Ramah, where a famous seer was located, and suggested that they should consult him first.
The oldest is considered to be that which marks Samuel as the local seer of Ramah, who willingly anoints Saul as King in secret, while the latter is that which presents Samuel as a national figure, who begrudgingly anoints Saul as King in front of a national assembly.
In many respects no two men could be more unlike than Severus, the scholar and orator, well versed in the ways of the world, and Martin, the rough Pannonian bishop, ignorant, suspicious of culture, champion of the monastic life, seer and worker of miracles.
Plotinus writes, " We ought not even to say that he will see, but he will be that which he sees, if indeed it is possible any longer to distinguish between seer and seen, and not boldly to affirm that the two are one.
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, King Pentheus is warned by the blind seer Tiresias to welcome Bacchus or else " Your blood be poured out over your mother and sisters ..." Pentheus dismisses Tiresias and ignores his warnings.
" Modern scholars generally consider only one of the attributed epigrams to be unquestionably authentic ( an inscription for the seer Megistius quoted by Herodotus ), which places in doubt even some of the most famous examples, such as the one to the Spartans at Thermopylae, quoted in the introduction.
And if he happens to be a lover of perfection and a seer, the resulting photograph will be straight and beautiful-a true photograph.
In his quest for vengeance, Zapathasura embraced five childer, Marizhavashti Kali, a seer ; the Rakshasa, a shapeshifter ; Chandraputra, a military leader ; Ravana, who betrayed Zapathasura and may be the Yama King of the same name ; and Ramessu, who served as an internal policeman for Zapathasura's war.
The same root also appears in Latin vātēs (" seer ", " singer "), which is considered to be a Celtic loanword, compare to Irish fāith (" poet ", but originally " excited ", " inspired ").
As president, Monson is considered by adherents of the religion to be a " prophet, seer, and revelator " of God's will on earth.
Latter-day Saints consider the president of the church to be a prophet, seer, and revelator, and refer to him particularly as the Prophet, a title originally given to Joseph Smith, Jr.
Only the Prophet-President is considered to be a prophet, seer and revelator, and so far, each person to hold this position has presented additional revelations to the church, which have been added to the Doctrine and Covenants.

seer and demonic
Kira ( Charisma Carpenter ), a powerful demonic seer, tells Phoebe her powers were once limited to psychometry but they grew, like Phoebe's will in time.

seer and with
This " man of God " who warned Jeroboam has been equated with a seer named Iddo.
* A seer, based at Ramah, and seemingly known scarcely beyond the immediate neighbourhood of Ramah ( Saul, for example, not having heard of him, with his servant informing him of his existence instead ).
In 1 Samuel 9: 6-20, Samuel is seen as a local “ seer .” The Deuteronomistic Historians preserved this view of Samuel while contributing him as “ the first of prophets to articulate the failure of Israel to live up to its covenant with God .” For the Deuteronomistic Historians, Samuel was extension of Moses and continuing Moses ’ function as a prophet, judge, and a priest which made historical Samuel uncertain.
Odysseus and his men were blown far off course to lands unknown to the Achaeans ; there Odysseus had many adventures, including the famous encounter with the Cyclops Polyphemus, and an audience with the seer Teiresias in Hades.
In 1582, Dee teamed up with the seer Edward Kelley, although Dee had used several other seers previously.
The stark truth emerges slowly over the course of the play, as Oedipus clashes with the blind seer Tiresias, who senses the truth.
Often when his name is attached to a mythic prophecy, it is introduced simply to supply a personality to the generic example of a seer, not by any inherent connection of Tiresias with the myth: thus it is Tiresias who tells Amphytrion of Zeus and Alcmena and warns the mother of Narcissus that the boy will thrive as long as he never knows himself.
From its Romanticist usage, the notion of the bard as a minstrel with qualities of a priest, magician or seer also entered the fantasy genre in the 1960s to 1980s, for example as the " Bard " class in Dungeons & Dragons, Bard by Keith Taylor ( 1981 ), Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn ( 1984 ), and in video games in fantasy settings such as The Bard's Tale ( 1985 ).
In Greek mythology, Calchas ( Κάλχας, possibly meaning " bronze-man "), son of Thestor, was an Argive seer, with a gift for interpreting the flight of birds that he received of Apollo: " as an augur, Calchas had no rival in the camp ".
Drusilla is also a seer with minor psychic abilities.
Indeed, Ulixes does not stop his malicious gossiping until he causes Sinon's ruin with the help of the seer Calchas.
The seer Tiresias once saw two snakes mating and struck the female with his staff ; this transformed him into a woman, and he lived as such for many years.
The ' secrets of Fatima ' revealed periodically by the seer Lucia showed Mary's concern with the apostacy of Soviet Russia and the threat of communist anticlericalism.
Hence they refer to themselves as simply,The Lord ’ s recovery ” and appraise Nee and Lee with this summary, " Watchman Nee was indeed a seer of the divine revelation in the present age, and Witness Lee was just as certainly a wise master builder according to this same divine revelation in the present age.
In Morocco the traditional Berber people were animists and the concept of sorcery was integral to the understanding of mental disorder ; it was mixed with the Islamic concepts of djin and often treated by religious scholars combining the roles of holy man, sage, seer and sorcerer.
Cassim believed that, with the Hand, he could return to his family and give them the life they deserved instead of one living out in the streets, and had instigated the raid so he could capture the oracle's staff and question the seer as to the precise whereabouts of the artifact.
In the face of protracted Mormon anguish at the death of Joseph Smith, Strang insisted that there still was, indeed, a Mormon seer who communed with God and conversed with angels.
The Whitmer family, devoted to their importance, " later said their disenchantment with Mormonism began when Joseph Smith stopped using his seer stone as an instrument of revelation.
A spákona or spækona ( with an Old English cognate, spæwīfe ) is a " seer, one who sees ", from the Old Norse word spá or spæ referring to prophesying and which is cognate with the present English word " spy ," continuing Proto-Germanic * spah-and the Proto-Indo-European root ( to see, to observe ) and consequently related to Latin speccio (" sees ") and Sanskrit spáçati and páçyati (" sees ", etc.

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