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| FENIX Latinised form Phoenix Fenix is that wonderous Egyptian sacred bird of the Sun-God, RA . Long before the popular legend of the fenix a bird that lived five or six hundred years ago, burned itself to ashes on a funeral pyre lighted by the sun and rising again from its own ashes ? one of a kind only existed: there were more ancient religious myths about this bird The Egyptian book of the dead names the sacred bird as the symbol of the rising sun, as such it was ?self-generating? and was called ?the soul of RA(the sun)the heart of the renewed sun? the mystic symbolism of the dawn is attached to the bird. The fenix myth originates in the daily setting and dawning of the sun |
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| Voodoo VOODOO? Long time ago a cult of a very special kind developed beneath the burning sun of the western Africa, and other equatorial areas. Rituals, mime , gestures, dances, rthyms, taboos, and other characteristics blended into one another to form a new facet in music. The beginning of the colonial era Negro slaves took the voodoo-cult over the American continent . voodoo spread in the new world just as fast as the number of the coloured population, and then slowly vanished in those areas where it first started . Today it is found in Tahiti, and as ?Macumba? in Brazil, among the tribals of India in certain parts of the mountains it is called as ?kateri?. Sacrificing animals for demon worshipping, goulish custums were followed to the chant of the charlatan woman to drive out the ghost, it is believed in order to drive them the victim is punised severly something akin to the bedlam during the medieval times., |
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