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They worshipped and made incantations to their Nae Yakka ( Relative Spirit ) followed by other customary ritual ( called the Kiri Koraha ) which is still in vogue among the surviving Gam Veddas of Rathugala, Pollebedda Dambana and the Henanigala Vedda re-settlement ( in Mahaweli systems off Mahiyangane ).
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They also worshipped gods such as Indra, Varuna and Mitra, which again were to become part of the Hindu religion in India.
They worshipped various aspects of nature, establishing sacred woods at Sainte-Baume and Gemenos, and healing springs at Glanum and Vernėègues.
They held that the physical world was evil and created by the demiurge Rex Mundi ( Latin, " King of the World "), who encompassed all that was corporeal, chaotic and powerful ; the second god, the one whom they worshipped, was entirely disincarnate: a being or principle of pure spirit and completely unsullied by the taint of matter.
After killing five of the participants and arresting 47 others, Legrasse interrogated the prisoners and learned " the central idea of their loathsome faith ": " They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men ... and ... formed a cult which had never died ... hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R ' lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
" They ( and Leto ) are worshipped as the Divided God, and their existence keeps humanity locked on Leto's Golden Path.
They are one of the best known yōkai ( monster-spirits ) and are sometimes worshipped as Shinto kami ( revered spirits or gods ).
They also allege that the reason the early Christians were persecuted was not because they worshipped Jesus Christ, but because they refused to worship human idols claiming divine status ( see Imperial cult ).
They worshipped sixteen deities, with Chantico, goddess of the hearth and Cihuacoatl, an earth goddess and Amimitl, god of chinampas the most important.
They believed in Yahweh, " the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ," whom the Jews worshipped as the one true God.
They believe that their ancestors must be duly worshipped or propitiated so that they being satisfied keep them safe.
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They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.
But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
They both tried to keep smiling and winking for a long time, but it made their lips and eyelids tremble.
When someone says, for example, `` They took x-rays to see that there was nothing wrong with me '', it pays to consider how this statement would normally be made.
They had ruined the radar warning system with their window, they had made themselves invisible above their flares.
They dug up a speech he had made two years earlier as a Congressman, decrying the more than two hundred statues, monuments, and memorials which `` dot the Washington landscape as patriotic societies and zealous friends are constantly hatching new plans ''.
They can hardly restrain themselves from raising the question of whether Republicans, if they had been in power, would have made `` amateurish and monumental blunders '' in Cuba.
They indicated that no new errors were being made and that all old errors would be corrected `` within 60 days ''.
They fasted or ate very little ; a statue of the god was made out of amaranth ( huautli ) seeds and honey, and at the end of the month, it was cut into small pieces so everybody could eat a little piece of the god.
They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".
They are also thought to have pioneered the modern alto format of viola, in contrast to older tenor violas, but this stating is not correct since Gasparo made violas from altos of 39 to tenors of 44, 7 cm.
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