Their value also lies in the fact that they are the only extant documents of the ancient religions of Europe and the Mediterranean which has come down to us in a complete state.

Their original religions appear to have been shamanistic, but they were increasingly influenced by Chinese culture, particularly Confucianism and Taoism.

Their chief god is called Chiuta, who is all-powerful, omniscient and self-created, just like the God of the Abrahamic religions.

* See Egerton Ryerson's The Loyalists of America and Their Times for evidence of the differences between the Pilgrim Fathers ( Plymouth Rock ) and the Puritan Fathers ( Massachusetts Bay ) with respect to loyalty to the Crown, tolerance of other religions, and treatment of the Native Peoples, and how this schism continued right up to and during the American Revolution.

Their resentment was expressed in religious terms as related to the difference in religions.

Their main religions are animism, Buddhism, and Chinese folk religions.

Their view may have been that sex magic was "... the key to all the secrets of the Universe and to all the symbolism ever used by secret societies and religions.

Their design was miraculously frustrated – according to the Aeginetan version, the statues fell upon their knees – and only a single survivor returned to Athens, there to fall victim to the fury of his comrades ' widows, who pierced him with their brooch-pins.

Their proposals include always observing Easter on the second Sunday in April, or always having seven Sundays between the Epiphany and Ash Wednesday, producing the same result except that in leap years Easter could fall on 7 April.

Their age and distribution can be largely related to the rise and fall of sea levels during past ice ages.

Their food consisted of " rice, biscuits, yams, tinned beef, and tea, with a few cocoanuts for those who may fall sick ".

Their spores, called basidiospores, are produced on the gills and fall in a fine rain of powder from under the caps as a result.

Their friends and relatives attributed it to her youth and that she was unable to withstand being alone and bored ; when Orbison toured England again in the fall of 1963, she joined him.

Their albums generally fall into two categories: deconstructions of Western popular music, or complex conceptual pieces, composed around a theme, theory or plot.

Their Snowspeeder inflicts the first casualty against the AT-AT attack group by firing a harpoon trailing a tow cable into one of the walker's legs and circling the walker several times, causing it to trip and fall and allowing Rebel forces to destroy the walker.

Their tiny, hard-walled eggs or cysts ( diameter about 200 micrometers ) are harvested in quantity during the fall and early winter.

Their numbers may fall sharply in years of bad weather or high predator populations — significant grouse populations are a major food source for lynx, foxes, martens, and birds of prey.

Their defense plan began to fall from the very start partly because the defenders were overwhelmed by Chinese troops who were fleeing from battles in the area surrounding Nanking and who just wanted to escape to safer ground.

Their tolerance of air-pollution and the comparatively rapid decomposition of their leaf-litter in the fall were further advantages.

Their migration is assisted by east winds in autumn, resulting in drift migration of Scandinavian migrants, sometimes leading to a spectacular " fall " of thousands of birds.

Their anchor store is Publix which opened fall of 2009.

Their view was that before the fall, indeed before man's creation, God had already determined what the eternal destiny of each person was to be.

Their fall from power meant their control was redirected to the central government and all taxes now came to the central government rather than to the local nobility.

Their early attempts to sign bands and sell tickets fall flat, however, and Wayne wonders if the whole thing was a good idea.

Their main food is fruit, which they eat from early summer ( strawberries, mulberries, and serviceberries ) through late summer and fall ( raspberries, blackberries, cherries, and honeysuckle berries ) into late fall and winter ( juniper berries, grapes, crabapples, mountain ash fruits, rose hips, cotoneaster fruits, dogwood berries, and mistletoe berries ) ( MacKinnon and Phillipps 2000, Witmer and Avery 2003 ).

Their identification as kings in later Christian writings is probably linked to Psalms 72: 11, “ May all kings fall down before him ”.

Their bills fall within their field of binocular vision and enable them to carefully position their bill and capture prey.

Their basis for this conclusion included: a belief that the South Vietnamese military was no longer combat effective ; the results of the fall 1967 South Vietnamese presidential election ( in which the Nguyễn Văn Thiệu / Nguyễn Cao Kỳ ticket had only received 24 percent of the popular vote ); the Buddhist crises of 1963 and 1966 ; well-publicized anti-war demonstrations in Saigon ; and continuous criticism of the Thieu government in the southern press.

Their opposition to the communist forces until 1975 was a factor in their repression after the fall of Saigon in 1975, when the incoming communist government proscribed the practice of Cao Đài.

Their reasoning is that the 29. 5 hours a week working time written into the contracts fall below an erroneous minimum of 3 / 4 full time necessary for eligibility.

" Their dates at the Haig became sell-outs and the recordings they made in the fall of 1952 became major sellers that led to significant acclaim for Mulligan and Baker.

Their uniforms tend to fit rather loosely, and often feature large phaser holsters that allow the entire weapon to be ' dropped in ', hiding most of it from view.

Their legs, technically called lobopods, are loosely conical in shape, tapering from the body to their clawed tips.

Their length is loosely proportional to the length of the leg to which they are attached.

) Their loosely structured show with the musicians sitting in a semicircle, a tambourine player on one end and a bones player on the other, set the precedent for what would soon become the first act of a standard three-act minstrel show.

Their style is loosely modelled on that of the Andrews Sisters.

Their story was familiar to Asimov from his recent reading of Robert Graves's novel Count Belisarius, and of his earlier study of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, on which the entire series is loosely based.

The complete line-up of The Flower Pot Men and Their Garden, as they were sometimes billed, was loosely based around the following:

Their self-titled debut, recorded after just a few rehearsals, contained instrumentals which were largely improvised versions of simple rock-oriented motifs based loosely on ' 70s bands such as Boston, Bachman – Turner Overdrive and Yes.

Their first project is an anime based loosely on the story from Disgaea: Hour of Darkness.

Their debut album Get Heavy was released in November, with a cover design loosely based on Kiss's Love Gun album.

Their experiments in long, loosely structured grooves, best heard on the Express Yourself and You're So Beautiful albums, could be heard as both influences on and influenced by contemporaries such as Sly and the Family Stone, the Isley Brothers and Parliament-Funkadelic.

Their first major project together, a spec Muppet movie, Kermit, Prince of Denmark, which was very loosely based on Hamlet, won them ( as part of a tie ) part of the $ 150, 000 Kleban Award.

Their personalities and appearances were loosely inspired by real players, such as Stretch, the " cover athlete " who resembled Julius Erving in looks and abilities.

Their function is loosely defined, though their duties are divided into the two general categories of protection and propagation of the Bahá ' í Faith.

Their clashes are loosely inspired by the Fengshen Yanyi.

Their more recent work includes the " Ultra N-Project " ( Ultraman the Next and Ultraman Nexus ) and Bio Planet WoO, based loosely on an unused concept which was planned before the production of Ultra Q, but never filmed.

Their minstrel show also included a comic scene loosely based on the song, " Dan Tucker on Horseback ", about a black riding master.