While on his journey to England, Mellitus received a letter from Gregory allowing Augustine to convert pagan temples to Christian churches, and to convert pagan animal sacrifices into Christian feasts, to ease the transition to Christianity.

While the name Sigyn is found as a female personal name in Old Norse sources ( Old Norse sigr meaning " victory " and vina meaning " girl-friend "), and though in surviving sources she is largely restricted to a single role, she appears in the 9th century Haustlöng from pagan times, written by the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir.

While Sunday services in most congregations tend to be spiritual in nature ( as different from theological ), it is not unusual for a part of a church's membership to attend pagan, Buddhist, or other spiritual study or worship groups as an alternative means of worship.

While theology of the Arians was declared a heresy at the First Council of Nicea in 325 AD, the missionary work of the bishop Ulfilas converted the pagan Goths to Arian Christianity in the 4th Century.

While he allowed Catholic clergy to enter his realm for the purpose of ministering to his Catholic subjects and to temporary residents, he savagely punished any attempt to convert pagan Lithuanians or to insult their native religion.

While socially evolved base level pagan ways are existing side by side and the multitude of these images cannot be attributed to the great Vedic Religion / Sanatana Dharma which is an abode of divine disposition.

While the entertainment value of chariot races tended to overshadow any sacred purpose, in late antiquity the Church Fathers still saw them as a traditional " pagan " practice, and advised Christians not to participate.

While the Pope interpreted this as a sign that God was appeased, this did not detract Gregory from destroying more sites of pagan worship in Rome.

While folk beliefs and traditions of all Slavic peoples indeed are the richest resource for reconstructing the ancient pagan beliefs, these may very likely have lost their original mythology and sanctity.

While this name fits very nicely with the Christian idea of Christmas, the name is likely of pagan origin ; it indicated the birth of a young and new god of the sun to the old and weakened solar deity during the longest night of the year.

While, in the West, the so-called orthodox Church competed against the Arian Christian and pagan faiths of the Germanic rulers and spread outside what had been the Empire to Ireland, Germany, Scandinavia and the western Slavs, in the East Christianity spread to the Slavs in what is now Russia, south-central and eastern Europe.

While Mindaugas had converted to Christianity in order to discourage Livonian Order and Teutonic Knights attacks on Lithuania, becoming king in the process, Treniota remained a staunch pagan.

While the basic understandings of the Western world were informed by Christianity in all areas of study, the term mythographer referred to someone who attempted to explain pagan myths in terms of misremembering the events of the Old Testament or wilfully altering them.

While rejecting as pagan the notion that Jesus ' death propitiates the Father ( p. 91 ), he talks of Jesus ' sacrifice as vicarious, representative and sacrificial ( p. 90 ), and says that for Jesus ' sacrifice is a representative offering in which men can share, making it the vehicle or organ of their approach to God ' ( p. 21 ).

While viewing Buddhism and Taoism as " pagan " religions inimical to Christianity, Ricci's approach-predominant with the Jesuits in China throughout most of the 17th century-viewed Confucianism as, essentially, a moral teaching that was compatible with, rather than contradictory to, the Christian beliefs.

While the art of navigation shall be cultivated among men, whilst the spirit of enterprise, commerce and philanthropy shall animate the sons of Britain, while it shall be deemed the honour of a Christian Nation to spread civilisation and the blessings of the Christian faith among pagan and savage tribes, so long will the name of Captain Cook stand out amongst the most celebrated and most admired benefactors of the human race.

While pagan basilicas had as their focus a statue of the emperor ; Christian basilicas focused on the Eucharist as the symbol of the eternal, loving and forgiving God.

While the version of the battle in which a divine wind defeated the pagan enemies of Theodosius became popular in late antiquity, modern historians, most notably Alan Cameron, have disputed the reliability of this version of events.

While she was in prison, efforts to make her the wife of Eleusius continued, in order to save her from execution, but Juliana preferred to die rather than have a pagan as a husband.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

While he is worldly, the musician often cultivates public attitudes of childlike astonishment and naivete.

While some think we move too fast and others too slowly, Florida's record is a good one and stands out among the 50.

While white is the coolest summer shade, there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable fabrics that will blend with any wardrobe color.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

While clay is still pressed in mold, press three equally spaced holes 1/4'' '' deep, using pencil eraser, in bottom of clay to allow for proper drying and firing.

While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.

While some regression is inevitable, it is discouraged rather than encouraged so that the transference does not follow the stages of planned regression associated with certain casework adaptations of the psychoanalytic model for insight therapy.

While other conditions might be even more effective in bringing about a change from immobility to mobility in Kohnstamm reactivity, it is our hypothesis that all such conditions would have as a common factor the capacity to induce an attitude in the subject which enabled him to divorce himself temporarily from feelings of responsibility for his behavior.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While roleplaying for testing is not too well understood at the present time, it represents one of the major uses of this procedure.

While the phonemes can be very easily stated, no one is likely to be satisfied with the statement until phonemic occurrences can be related in some way to morphemic units, i.e. until the morphophonemics is worked out, or at least far enough that it seems reasonable to expect success.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

While it had long been known in general, that `` the public is always wrong '', the use of odd-lot indices now puts the adage on a statistical basis.

While there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable, the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United States since World War 2.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

While one element is announcing progress, another is delineating its problems.

While connection with Anatolian names has been suggested, the earliest attested forms of the name Artemis are the Mycenaean Greek a-te-mi-to and a-ti-mi-te, written in Linear B at Pylos.

While of the other the tribes who had come to Italy along with the Boii, the Senones, Lingones and Cenomani are also attested in Gaul at the time of the Roman conquest, there is no such clear evidence for the Boii in Gaul.

While the Old Norse month name ýlir is similarly attested, the Old Norse corpus also contains numerous references to an event by the Old Norse form of the name, jól.

While not all of these languages are adequately attested, it turns out that Sursurunga instead has both a " lesser paucal " ( labeled " trial ", but in fact referring to small groups, with typically three or four members ) and a " greater paucal " ( misnamed the " quadral ", as it has a minimum of four, e. g. a pair of dyadic kin terms )— the distinction is along the lines of " a few " vs. " several ";— and that what Marshallese actually has is a trial and a paucal.

While not attested as Vanir, the gods Heimdallr and Ullr have been theorized as potential members of the group.

While musical life was undoubtedly rich in the early Medieval era, as attested by artistic depictions of instruments, writings about music, and other records, the only repertory of music which has survived from before 800 to the present day is the plainsong liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church, the largest part of which is called Gregorian chant.

While the Middle Dutch ‘’ wafele ’’ is first attested to at the end of the 13th century, it is preceded by the French ‘’ walfre ’’ in 1185 ; both are considered to share the same Frankish etymological root ‘’ wafla ’’.

While the daēva Aēšma is thus Zoroastrianism's demon of wrath and is also well attested as such, the compound aēšma-daēva is not attested in scripture.

While the noun " mattock " is attested from Old English onwards, the transitive verb " to mattock " or " to mattock up " first appeared in the mid-17th century.

While this form of pastoralism sees little use today, it has left its mark on English toponymy, as attested by nearby paired placenames such as Winterfold Heath and Somersbury Wood.

While it has been suggested that strip poker originated in New Orleans in the United States around the same time as original poker in the 19th century, played in brothels, the term is only attested since 1916.

While Amenhotep I's highest attested official date is only his Year 10, Manetho's data is confirmed by information from a passage in the tomb autobiography of a magician named Amenemhet.

While given the Nordic ancestry in sagas, she has been hypothesized to be identical to historically attested Polish or Pomeranian princesses.

While the concept of a Juno of goddesses is not attested in the inscriptions of 58 BC from Furfo, that of a Genius of gods is, and even of a Genius of a goddess, Victoria.

The Mongolian tradition of archery is attested by an inscription on a stone stele that was found near Nerchinsk in Siberia: " While Genghis Khan was holding an assembly of Mongolian dignitaries, after his conquest of Sartaul ( Khwarezm ), Yesüngge ( the son of Genghis Khan's brother ) shot a target at 335 alds ( 536 m ).

While today spelt is a specialty crop, its popularity as a peasants ' staple food of the past has been attested in literature.

While Sanakht's existence is attested by a mastaba tomb and a graffito, among other objects, his position as the founder of the Third Dynasty, as recorded by Manetho and the Turin Canon, has been seriously undermined by recent archaeological discoveries at Abydos.

While maintaining commercial links with the Byzantine Empire ( as attested by the excavations of 9th-12th century Byzantine coins at various locations ), the area was subject to the successive invasions of Pechenegs and Cumans and conquered by the Mongols during the 1241 invasion of Europe.

While occasional references to ‘ common Celtic law ’ in academic literature, such as Fergus Kelly's Guide to Early Irish Law, seem to imply that there was one original Celtic law from which the various later Celtic laws, some of which are historically attested ( see Brehon Laws ; Welsh law ), evolved, it is unlikely that anything like ‘ original Celtic law ’ ( or ‘ common Celtic law ’) ever existed as a unified, let alone a codified body of law.

While not reflected in the Vedic samhitas, it is attested in the later Brahmana stage ( ca.

While sometimes relying on legitimate scientific claims, in reality, no such experiment has ever been attested.

While his precise background is unknown except for his Syrian origins, Bay is first attested as scribe and butler, an important position in Egypt, during the reign of Seti II.

While the Neo-Assyrian Empire was beginning a period of renewed power and influence in the 9th century, it is also at this time that the existence of the kingdom of Urartu, centered around Lake Van, is first attested in the Neo-Assyrian annals and related literature.