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Mythology

  1. Green tickY the Wax Girl < Africa trickster myth similar to tar baby
    - article links to somewhere else
  2. Damysos - was the swiftest of Gigantes who waged war on the gods. The speed of his feet was extracted by Kheiron and placed in the heel of Akhilleus. - [1] fr:Damysos -
  3. the Hall of the Two Truths < Osiris in Book of the Dead

Religion

  1. Al-Khassa - largest sect in Shia Islam Also known as Twelvers
  2. Sab'Iya - Sect in Shia Islam. Also Known as Seveners
  3. Destruction of the Temples - action commemorated during Tisha B'Av - redirect to Siege of Jerusalem (AD 70)?
  4. Spiritualists and Conventualists
  5. Finite God -> belief system advocated by Ralph Barton Perry stating that God Himself is distinct from the universe and is in the process of achieving fulfillment
  6. albigenes -> "A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries." Eventually defeated by the inquisition and the crusades.
  7. Place of Fright -> The underworld in Mayan beliefs. Cold, damp place where souls go after death.