Legendary Creatures. Medieval Times: Attack of the giant killer rabbits! Medieval Times: Attack of the giant killer rabbits! So, you thought rabbits were cute, cuddly bundles of fun? Well, don’t be fooled, for underneath their furry exterior is a ruthless psychopath just twitching to wreak bloody vengeance with swords and axes. As academics will tell you, those who fail to learn from history are cursed to repeat it. Just look at these panels from medieval manuscripts which clearly prove giant killer rabbits did once roam the Earth battling humans for its control—and you thought Monty Python and the Holy Grail‘s “killer bunny” was a joke?
Yes, we were warned by these medieval writers, and warned again by The Night of the Lepus—which as we now know, was not just a bad trashy B-movie horror but a guide to saving the world from giant killer bunny rabbits! Rabbits lay in wait for the human to kill their dreaded enemy the dragon, before killing the brave knight. The rabbits prepared for battle. They were led by the evil killer Thumper. The battle was bloody. অল কান্ট্রিজ এক্সসেপ্ট পাকিস্তান. বাংলাদেশকে স্বীকৃতিদানকারী প্রথম দেশ কোনটি, এই প্রশ্ন করলে বেশির ভাগ লোকই কোনো রকমের দ্বিধাদ্বন্দ্ব ছাড়াই বলে দেবেন যে ভারত। যাঁরা একটু বেশি খোঁজ খবর রাখেন, মুচকি হেসে বলবেন, ভুটান। হ্যাঁ, এই দ্বিতীয় অংশরাই সঠিক। ভুটানই বাংলাদেশকে স্বীকৃতিদানকারী প্রথম দেশ। যেদিন বাংলাদেশ-ভারত মিত্রবাহিনী গঠিত হয়, ভারত পাকিস্তানের বিরুদ্ধে যুদ্ধ ঘোষণা করে, সেই ৩রা ডিসেম্বর ভুটান বাংলাদেশকে স্বীকৃতি দেয়।
ভারত করাক বা ভুটান নিজের গরজেই করুক, ভুটান বাংলাদেশকে স্বীকৃতিদানকারী প্রথম দেশ, এটাই প্রতিষ্ঠিত সত্য। এখন আমি যদি বলি যে, এই তথ্যও সঠিক নয়। বাংলাদেশকে প্রথম স্বীকৃতিদানকারী দেশটির নাম হচ্ছে ইজরায়েল। ইজরায়েলের প্রথম স্বীকৃতি আসে মুক্তিযুদ্ধের প্রথম প্রহরে। ইজরায়েলের বদলে ভারতের কাছ থেকে এই স্বীকৃতি প্রথম আসার কথা ছিল। “প্রধানমন্ত্রী শ্রীমতি ইন্দিরা গান্ধী গত ২৬শে জুলাই যখন বাংলাদেশের ব্যাপার নিয়ে সংসদের বিরোধী দলের নেতাদের নিয়ে বৈঠকে মিলিত হন, তখন তাঁরা একবাক্যে বাংলাদেশের অস্থায়ী সরকারকে স্বীকৃতি দেবার জন্যে তাঁকে পরামর্শ দিয়েছিলেন। সেই বিশেষ মুহুর্ত হঠাৎ এই সময় কেন দেখা দিল?
কিন্তু দেয় নি। Israel secretly provided arms to India in 1971: Book. Angels and Demons. Demon. In Ancient Near Eastern religions as well as in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered an unclean spirit, sometimes a fallen angel, the spirit of a deceased human, or a spirit of unknown type which may cause demonic possession, calling for an exorcism. In Western occultism and Renaissance magic, which grew out of an amalgamation of Greco-Roman magic, Jewish demonology and Christian tradition,[2] a demon is a spiritual entity that may be conjured and controlled.
Terminology[edit] The Greek term does not have any connotations of evil or malevolence. In fact, εὐδαιμονία eudaimonia, (literally good-spiritedness) means happiness. The supposed existence of demons remains an important concept in many modern religions and occultist traditions. Psychological archetype[edit] M. By tradition[edit] Ancient Near East[edit] Mesopotamia[edit] Human-headed winged bull, otherwise known as a Lamassu Ancient Arabia[edit] Hebrew Bible[edit] Emerald Tablet. An imaginative 17th century depiction of the Emerald Tablet from the work of Heinrich Khunrath, 1606. The Emerald Tablet, also known as the Smaragdine Table, or Tabula Smaragdina, is a compact and cryptic piece of Hermetica reputed to contain the secret of the prima materia and its transmutation.
It was highly regarded by European alchemists as the foundation of their art and its Hermetic tradition. The original source of the Emerald Tablet is unknown. Although Hermes Trismegistus is the author named in the text, its first known appearance is in a book written in Arabic between the sixth and eighth centuries. The text was first translated into Latin in the twelfth century. Numerous translations, interpretations and commentaries followed. Textual history[edit] The tablet text[edit] Newton's translation[edit] A translation by Isaac Newton is found among his alchemical papers that are currently housed in King's College Library, Cambridge University.[8] Theatrum Chemicum translation[edit] C.G.
The Lesser Key of Solomon. The Lesser Key of Solomon, also known as Clavicula Salomonis Regis[note 1] or Lemegeton, is an anonymous grimoire (or spell book) on demonology. It was compiled in the mid-17th century, mostly from materials a couple of centuries older.[1][2] It is divided into five books—the Ars Goetia, Ars Theurgia-Goetia, Ars Paulina, Ars Almadel, and Ars Notoria.[1][3] Ars Goetia[edit] The most obvious source for the Ars Goetia is Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum in his De praestigiis daemonum. Weyer does not cite, and is unaware of, any other books in the Lemegeton, indicating that the Lemegeton was derived from his work, not the other way around.[1][4] The order of the spirits was changed between the two, four additional spirits were added to the later work, and one spirit (Pruflas) was omitted.
This portion of the work was later translated by S. The Seventy-Two Demons[edit] Ars Theurgia Goetia[edit] Ars Paulina[edit] Ars Almadel[edit] Ars Notoria[edit] Editions and translations[edit] Notes[edit] Abraxas. Abraxas (Gk. ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ)[citation needed] was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “Great Archon” (Gk., megas archōn), the princeps of the 365 spheres (Gk., ouranoi).[1] The seven letters spelling its name may represent each of the seven classic planets—Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.[2] There are similarities and differences between such figures in reports about Basilides's teaching, ancient Gnostic texts, the larger Greco-Roman magical traditions, and modern magical and esoteric writings. Opinions abound on Abraxas, who in recent centuries has been claimed to be both an Egyptian god and a demon.[3] The Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas a god higher than the Christian God and devil that combines all opposites into one being.
Sources[edit] Left-hand path and right-hand path. The Baphomet, from Eliphas Levi's "Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie", 1854, adopted symbol of some "Left-Hand Path" belief systems. The terms Left-Hand Path and Right-Hand Path refer to a dichotomy between two opposing approaches found in Western esotericism, which itself covers various groups involved in the occult and ceremonial magic.
In some definitions, the Left-Hand Path is equated with malicious Black magic and the Right-Hand Path with benevolent White magic.[1]:152 Other occultists have criticised this definition, believing that the Left-Right dichotomy refers merely to different kinds of working, and does not necessarily connote good or bad magical actions.[1]:176 Terminology[edit] There is no set accepted definition of what comprises the Left-Hand Path and what comprises the Right. Early proponents of the terms, such as Madame Blavatsky, believed that they were essentially conflatable with Black Magic and White, although some later occultists have criticized this notion.
Mysterious Conspiracies. Dead Sea Scrolls. Top 10 Rare and Important Archeological Finds. In archaeology, an artifact is an object recovered which may provide cultural interest and help in the understanding of human history. In the last 100 years, a large collection of important archeological discoveries have been made. Some of these artifacts have helped people understand the origins of life on Earth, while others have presented problems for scientists. An out-of-place artifact is an object of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest found in a very unusual or seemingly impossible context. Hundreds of artifacts have been located and studied with some remarkable results. 10. On March 22, 2011, a man named David Elkington, who is a scholar of ancient religious archaeology, issued a press release stating that a hoard of ancient books had been discovered in Jordan. Rare Discovery Some of the words in the codices are written in a form of archaic Hebrew script with ancient messianic symbols. 9. 8.
Specimens of purported rat kings are rare and kept in some museums.