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He was equally fascinated by Jomon period (ca. 8000-300 B.C.) sacred magico-religious terracotta vessels, and created a series of them by hand in the early 1950s.
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Even the abridged version is packed with examples of fruits and their roles in arcane, magico-religious ceremonies and primitive beliefs.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Even the abridged version is packed with examples of fruits and their roles in arcane, magico-religious ceremonies and primitive beliefs.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Even the abridged version is packed with examples of fruits and their roles in arcane, magico-religious ceremonies and primitive beliefs.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Elemental mercury is put to magico-religious uses, most problematically the sprinkling of the element on floors of homes in Caribbean and Latino communities.
Global anthropogenic emissions of mercury to the atmosphere 2008
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Note 5: Even the earliest literature of "magico-religious medicine," from Egypt and Mesopotamia, reveals a large emphasis on child care and a preoccupation with the birth process itself; see Henry E. Sigerist, Primitive and Archaic Medicine, vol. 1 of A History of Medicine (Oxford, 1951), 273 and passim.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Perfume began its life as a magico-religious symbol of transformation once confined to sacred ritual.
Brand Sense Martin Lindstrom 2005
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Perfume began its life as a magico-religious symbol of transformation once confined to sacred ritual.
Brand Sense Martin Lindstrom 2005
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The magico-religious notion of sanctity, of _mana_, appeared in the idea and notation of time.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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Institutionalized Sex Taboo and the magico-religious belief in Mana.
Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934
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