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| | Greeks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This strong relation between Greek national identity and Greek Orthodox religion continued after the creation of the modern Greek state in 1830, and when the Treaty of Lausanne was signed between Greece and Turkey in 1923, the two countries agreed to use religion as the determinant for ethnic identity. | | | Greek nationalism was reborn after the fall of Constantinople to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, and the establishment of a number of Greek kingdoms (such as the Empire of Nicaea and the Despotate of Epirus). | | | The history of the Greek people is closely associated with the history of Greece itself. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_Greek
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| | Greeks and Jews |
| | In general, though, the Greeks left the Jews alone; adopting Cyrus's policy, they allowed the Jews to run their own country, declared that the law of Judah was the Torah, and attempted to preserve Jewish religion. | | | This Greek version made the Hebrew scriptures available to the Mediterranean world and to early Christians who were otherwise fain to regard Christianity as a religion unrelated to Judaism. | | | The Greeks, in fact, were somewhat interested (not much) in the Jewish religion, but it seems that they wanted a copy of the Jewish scriptures for the library at Alexandria. |
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http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/Greeks.html
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| | E/CN.4/1998/6 - Report of the Special Rapporteur on religious intolerance |
| | The Greek Government protects the practice of the Muslim religion according to the Muslim tradition and avoiding the introduction of systems or practices which are not part of this tradition. | | | All these communities are treated in the same way as other Greek citizens as regards their rights and obligations before the law, and they are able to practise their religions freely, provided of course that they do not threaten public order. | | | It is well known that the Greek authorities do not interfere in the proper exercise of the religious duties of the Greek Muslim minority in Thrace. |
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http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord1998/documentation/commission/e-cn4-1998-6.htm
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| | GREEK HELSINKI MONITOR |
| | In its defense, the Greek government referred to the Orthodox Church's position as a national religion, accused Jehovah's Witnesses of proselytism and of using illegal means to spread their religion. | | | This fact, according to Greek Helsinki Monitor, watered down the attempts of the Greek government to distance itself from the prosecution by claiming that it was an act of the independent judiciary, the opinions of which were not necessarily identical with those of the government. | | | Greek Helsinki Monitor observed the trial of Christos Sideropoulos and concluded that there were significant contradictions with the indictment and the newspaper article on which it was said to be based. |
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http://www.minelres.lv/reports/greece/greece_NGO.htm
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| | CLASS TOPICS |
| | We look at Greek religion, especially into the question of the function of religion in the ancient community, and examine the importance of sacrifice and the nature of various religious festivals, from initiation rites to civic festivals. | | | Though Greek tragedy deals with bloodshed, murder, and passion within the family, these plays were watched by the entire city. | | | Their idea was to continue the war against Persian and they did, driving them from the Aegean sea and freeing the Greek cities of Ionia (Asia Minor, Anatolia). |
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http://pirate.shu.edu/~cottereu/ancient_greek_civilization.htm
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| | Homosexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In ancient Greece, on the other hand, Greek religion consecrated it, as in the case of the love between Zeus and Ganymede and other such myths. | | | For example, when India became part of the British Empire sodomy laws were introduced; while there was no basis for them in Hindu faith, this led to persecution of their society and religion. | | | This was in response to criticism from American conservative groups which objected to the discussion of positive aspects of classical pederasty, as well as to a chapter by the American academic Bruce Rind which was branded by the critics as advocating pedophilia. |
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| | Ancient Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The distinguishing features of ancient Greek society were the division between free and slave, the differing roles of men and women, the relative lack of status distinctions based on birth, and the importance of religion. | | | The Greeks are believed to have migrated southward into the Balkan peninsula in several waves beginning in the late 3rd millennium BC, the last being the Dorian invasion. | | | In 499 BC the Greeks rose in the Ionian Revolt, and Athens and some other Greek cities went to their aid. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece
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| | Greek |
| | Greek religion Greek religion, or rather, Greek religions, was the religion practiced in ancient Christian church whose... | | | Attic Greek Attic Greek is the dialect of the Koine and most of the other dialects in saying "tt" for "ss" (e.g. | | | Radical Greek left communist parties are very strong. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/greek.html
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| | Egyptian mythology -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Egyptian Mythology is different from (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek or (The mythology of the ancient Romans) Roman Mythology, in that in Egyptian Mythology most deities are of human body and animal head or vice versa. | | | By mummification, the Egyptians believed they were assuring themselves a successful rebirth into the afterlife. | | | Ancient Egyptians believed they may in part survive to an (Life after death) afterlife. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/e/eg/egyptian_mythology.htm
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| | Encyclopedia: Greek Fascism |
| | The traditional Greek values of "Fatherland, Loyalty, Family and Religion", which Metaxas praised repeatedly, were also close to those of the ancient Spartans and Greek Fascism sought to strengthen such values by indoctrination and propaganda. | | | Metaxas was hard line towards the irredentist factions of the Slavophone Greeks (mostly Macedonians and Bulgarians), who underwent political persecution due to advocacy of irrendentism with neighboring countries. | | | Despite their supposed disloyalty, however, Slavophone Greeks identified with the Greek state and fought ferociously for Greece on the Italo-Albanian front. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Greek-Fascism
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| | Greek/Hellenic Reconstructionist Paganism (The Cauldron: A Pagan Forum) |
| | Hellenic (Greek) Reconstructionism is a modern Pagan religious movement that bases its worship and cultic practices on the traditional, polytheistic religion of Ancient Greece. | | | Combining unrelated cultural beliefs (as opposed to historical syncretism) with those of the Ancient Greeks is unacceptable. | | | Although the newsletter is no longer being published, back issues can still be viewed at this site. |
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http://www.ecauldron.com/recongreek.php
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| | The Greek Theatre |
| | The student of Greek religion is naturally concerned to know what the Greeks believed about their gods. | | | Greek religion is not the same as Greek mythology, which is concerned with traditional tales, though the two are closely interlinked. | | | Most of what is known about the actual performance of Greek plays is the result of scholarly and archaeological research. |
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| | THE TURKS OF WESTERN THRACE |
| | The Greek state has for the most part been unable to accept the fact that one can be a loyal Greek citizen and, at the same time, an ethnic Turk proud of his or her culture and religion. | | | Representatives from Human Rights Watch and the Greek Helsinki Monitor were trailed by police operatives in Thrace while conducting research for this report. | | | Greek officials fall back on the Treaty of Lausanne, which only obligates them to provide primary education in Turkish, ignoring the fact that Greek law mandates a minimum of nine years of education. |
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http://www.hrw.org/hrw/reports/1999/greece/Greec991.htm
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| | Egyptian Religion - History for Kids! |
| | When the Romans conquered Egypt in 30 BC, again the Egyptians kept on worshipping their own gods while at the same time continuing to worship the Greek gods, and adding on some Roman gods as well. | | | But little by little some Egyptians began to convert to Christianity, and by the time of the Great Persecution in 303 AD, there were many Christians in Egypt. | | | Some Jews living in Egypt remained Jewish, and some of the Christians remained Christian - these Egyptian Christians are called the Copts, today. |
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http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/religion
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| | Greek religion |
| | Pontus, in Greek religion and mythology - Pontus, in Greek religion and mythology, sea god. | | | Hyperion, in Greek religion and mythology - Hyperion, in Greek religion and mythology, a Titan. | | | Greek religion, religious beliefs and practices of the ancient inhabitants of the region of Greece. |
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| | ANCIENT EGYPT : The impact of Ancient Egypt on Greek philosophy : Memphite & Theban thought |
| | The Ancient Greeks as a whole were only partially guilthy of the more severe charge of plagiarism, as they often cited their Egyptian and Oriental antecedents. | | | He also put some boys into the charge of the Greeks, and their learning of the language was the origin of the class of Egyptian interpreters, and the "regular intercourse with the Egyptians" began. | | | Hellenocentrism was and still is a powerful view, underlining the intellectual superiority of the Greeks and hence of all cultures immediately linked with this Graeco-Roman heritage, such as (Alexandrian) Judaism, (Eastern) Christianity but also Islam (via Harran and the translators). |
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http://maat.sofiatopia.org/hermes1.htm
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| | Pagans fight for divine rights of old Greek gods !!! - www.ezboard.com |
| | At the Greek Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs, Konstantinos Kontogiannis, general director of the religion directorate, claimed recognition of the movement was being considered "at the highest levels". | | | Under both the dominant Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, manifestations of the natural religion was condemned as sorcery, Satanism, and witchcraft. | | | The high philosophy of the Greeks, the ancient beliefs of ancient nations like the Armenians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Celts, Teutones, Norse, Slavs, and last of all, right up to the thirteenth century, the Lithuanians, fell to the rapacious jaws of iconoclastic and dogmatic Christianity. |
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| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.04.05 |
| | They maintained that Greece had been invaded from Africa in the Middle of the 2nd millennium, that Greek religion and mystery systems were based on Egyptian prototypes and that what was called "Greek" philosophy was in fact the secret wisdom of Egyptian lodges of a Masonic type. | | | For an instance of the former class, there is her belief that I derive the Greek word hikesios "suppliant" from the Egyptian HK3 h3st "chieftains of foreign hill country," later known to the Greeks as Hyksos. | | | His position seems, then, to be that the Greeks and late Egyptians both independently invented spiritual initiations for the living, resembling the journeys of the souls of the dead. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1996/96.04.05.html
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| | CELTIC DRUIDISM |
| | Their goal is to recreate a Pan-European Druidism, involving elements from Baltic, Celtic, Germanic Slavic and even pre-classical Greek and Roman beliefs. | | | The Christian Church adsorbed much of Celtic religion: many Pagan Gods and Goddesses became Christian saints; sacred springs and wells were preserved and associated with saints; many Pagan temple sites became the location of cathedrals. | | | His motto is " paganize mainstream religion by mainstreaming paganism ". |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/druid.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Greece |
| | The Greeks are a people who appear first in history as separated in various small States, but bound together by a common language, religion and civilization, in the south of the Balkan Peninsula, the islands around, and the coast of Asia Minor opposite. | | | The Patriarch Damianos is a Greek; he has always been disliked by the Arabs, now he has begun to try to conciliate them, so his Greek Synod has deposed him for being civil to Arabs, and the Arabs will not have him because he is a Greek. | | | They were Greeks (which is what their name Hromaioi really meant), their land was Greece still, though unhappily held by a foreign tyrant, for whose removal they never ceased to pray. |
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| | Elaion |
| | Elaion types often encounter ethnic Greeks who argue that Greek religion should be for Greeks. | | | Walter Burkert in Greek Religion does a very good job of explaining how various mystery traditions fit into the communal worship of the Ancient Greeks. | | | Greek Ethics Pt.2: Timé, Kléos, Aidos and Xenia |
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| | CIUS Press: The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Soviet State (1939-1950) by Bohdan Bociurkiw |
| | This is a must read for anyone interested in the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church or in the suppression of religion under Soviet rule. | | | Given the sensitivity of the subject matter, the perfidy of some actors on the stage, the heroism of others and the difficulty of separating well-intended fiction and deliberate disinformation from documented facts, Bohdan Bociurkiw's solid, well-informed, and balanced analysis of the Soviet attempt to liquidate the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine is a major accomplishment. | | | The book carefully analyzes Soviet policy toward the church from the first occupation of Galicia by the Red Army in 1939 through the liquidation of the visible structures of the Greek Catholic Church in Galicia, Poland, and Transcarpathia in the mid- and late 1940s. |
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http://www.utoronto.ca/cius/publications/books/ukrainiangreekcatholicchurch.htm
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| | Mythology |
| | Styx (mythology) Related: *Greek mythology *Greek religion River In Buddhist version of this river is known as the river... | | | Epimetheus (mythology) *Rhea *Coeus *Hyperion *Themis *Tethys *Atlas In Atlas; "Epimetheus" is Greek for "hindsight." He... | | | Atlas (mythology) *Rhea *Coeus *Hyperion *Themis *Tethys *Atlas In Atlantis. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/mythology.html
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| | [soc.culture.greek] Macedonia FAQ |
| | It was the first time (4th century BCE) that the Greek mainland (city-states and kingdoms) with the same language, culture, and religion were united against the enemies of Asia in one league. | | | Greece does not dictate to FYROM what name or flag to adopt, just to choose any of the million possibilities that are not Greek or offensive to Greeks. | | | After talking with the FYROMian Government fruitlessly for 2 years and going nowhere, then and only then did the Greek state implement the partial embargo as last resort to advance the issue. |
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| | Letters to the Editor |
| | My own particular interest of late has been to show that the Jewish religion was deliberately set up by the Persians to further their foreign policy in Palestine. | | | It is totally accepted and non-arguable fact that Phoenicians created one of the most advanced civilisations of their time, and that Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Aramaic alphabets, and alphabets derived from thereof are developed from the Phoenician one. | | | From what we know from Tanah, ancient Greek sources, and archaeological excavations religious believes and practices of the Phoenicians are common with other Semitic peoples such as Ammorites, Aramaean, Assyrian, Akkadians. |
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| | Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: 332 BC-395 AD |
| | The most enduring cultural product they produced was a Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures; the Ptolemies were interested in the Hebrew religion because of the large number of Jews living in Egypt at the time. | | | Although Ptolemy was Greek, he adopted Egyptian customs and the Egyptian theory of kingship. | | | Greek became the state language, and cities were renamed. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/EGYPT/PTOLEMY.HTM
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/mythology.html
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| | THE TURKS OF WESTERN THRACE |
| | The Greek state has for the most part been unable to accept the fact that one can be a loyal Greek citizen and, at the same time, an ethnic Turk proud of his or her culture and religion. | | | Representatives from Human Rights Watch and the Greek Helsinki Monitor were trailed by police operatives in Thrace while conducting research for this report. | | | The Greek government points to the Treaty of Lausanne which, it is true, speaks only of a “Muslim minority.” Past state policy, however, negates such a justification. |
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| | PublicEye.org - White Supremacists in the U.S. |
| | What Klassen did was to pick up ideas from the theories of Nietzsche, pantheisim, Odinism, and Celtic paganism as filtered through German Nazi retelling of the Norse heroic warrior myths, to create a religion of Aryanist White supremacy. | | | Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. | | | The White Order of Thule is a group influenced by Odinism, paganism, pantheism, Greek mythology, and Celtic lore, and is mirrored on German Nazi celebration of Nordic myths of the heroic warrior. |
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http://www.publiceye.org/racism/white-supremacy.html
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