| They regard Satan as a pre-Christian concept, representing pleasure, virility, and strength. |
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| Thus, we may say of Paul that he thought of himself as under a curse in his pre-Christian state. |
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| Chapter 3, on pre-Christian Egyptian monasticism, along with a paragraph on Sufi mysticism, is too sketchy and vague to be of much help. |
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| It is thought to have been used in pre-Christian religious rituals in many parts of Europe, including Britain in the time of the Druids. |
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| The writer advocates the re-emergence of paganism especially the pre-Christian Roman Saturnalia. |
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| Did such a spiritual tradition exist within the pre-Christian religions of Europe? |
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| Nor can it be gainsaid that Goddess worship was an aspect of pre-Christian religion. |
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| She not only gives us a sense of village life but in the process reconstructs its ancient, pre-Christian roots. |
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| Similarly, the Brigantes fought sporadically with the Caledonians in pre-Christian Britain, but both worshipped Brigidda. |
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| There are the remains of a number of oratories and some stone monuments that may be pre-Christian. |
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| They may have been part of a pre-Christian religious ritual or they may have been communal property in which corn or oats was pounded or ground. |
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| The pre-Christian religion of the Fijians was both animistic and polytheistic, and included a cult of chiefly ancestors. |
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| The indigenous pre-Buddhist, pre-Confucian, pre-Daoist, and pre-Christian religion of the Korean peninsula seems to have been shamanistic in nature. |
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| With the exception of a very few cultures with any semblance of a written language system, oral history is the main basis in which pre-Christian history is preserved. |
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| The Celts also introduced the ring fort, which remained the basis of the social structure of pre-Christian Ireland. |
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| Why not return to pre-Roman and pre-Christian times, when the Germanic tribes were uncorrupted by the cosmopolitan civilization of Europe? |
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| Calcium oxide, more commonly known as lime or quicklime, has been studied by scholars as far back as the pre-Christian era. |
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| It has been all too easy in the past to see carvings of Sheela-na-gigs and other female exhibitionists as evidence of a pre-Christian religion. |
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| Some scholars believe it is possible to trace the region's devotion to the Virgin Mary to the mother goddesses of pre-Christian religions. |
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| There's a broch, Pictish stones and St Moluag's chapel, believed to be pre-Christian. |
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| Along the path there is a well, which symbolises the beginning of life, while further along is a dolmen, a pre-Christian tomb, representing the end of life. |
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| Some holiday rituals evolved from pre-Christian Saturnalia and so were often accompanied by rowdiness, drunkenness, and the shooting of firecrackers. |
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| We hear about pre-Christian religion, pagan beliefs, shamanistic rituals and healing drums, and the story is narrated in ambiguous and multivocal words and concepts. |
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| It is unlikely that the Irish needed explanation of the concept of three persons in one, as triads were central to pre-Christian Celtic religious tradition. |
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| Rather it is that the celebration of Easter itself had incorporated pre-existent and pre-Christian elements within itself. |
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| Set in a pre-Christian culture, the novel is narrated by the central character, Orual, Queen of the land of Glome. |
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| Blinis are some of the oldest pancakes known, dating back as far as pre-Christian times. |
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| Madurai, located on the banks of the River Vaigai, is one of India's oldest cities, with a history dating all the way back to the Sangam period of the pre-Christian era. |
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| Pre-Christian warriors hoped to meet a quick, short death, hopefully heroically in battle. |
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| Pre-Christian epic ballads, agricultural songs, laments, and tales dating back to before the tenth century were recorded for the first time in the seventeenth century. |
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