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  • Thumbnail for Hermann Usener
    Ernst Cassirer. In his book “The Names of Gods” (Götternamen, 1896), Usener introduced the concept of a momentary god. This phrase entered the English-speaking...
    9 KB (850 words) - 09:04, 13 September 2023
  • and the Manticore (Ace Books, 1985) Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (Ace Books, 1988) Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse (Ace...
    16 KB (1,478 words) - 05:24, 7 April 2024
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    man from his properties (youth), we find that everything is subject to momentary change, and are left with nothing beyond the merely arbitrary convention...
    11 KB (1,221 words) - 18:07, 10 July 2024
  • reunite with Layla and encounter Anton Mogart, the Ennead group of Egyptian gods, and Taweret, and Spector confronts his past. A third alter, Jake Lockley...
    50 KB (4,884 words) - 23:42, 2 May 2024
  • "Stra", is a blow of such speed that it appears to ordinary people as a momentary flash of light. Hence, he is known as the user of the "Speed of Light...
    49 KB (7,112 words) - 08:34, 9 June 2024
  • others, developed distinctive theories of atomism, for example, involving momentary (instantaneous) atoms (kalapas) that flash in and out of existence. The...
    64 KB (7,645 words) - 17:36, 2 July 2024
  • a magic "cast" that can be used from a distance, a dash that provides momentary intangibility and mobility, allows the player to phase through thin enough...
    62 KB (5,400 words) - 06:53, 22 June 2024
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    state that Valli was born from a doe when a sage laid eyes on it during a momentary lapse in his meditation. She grew up as a huntress, protecting her folk...
    13 KB (1,725 words) - 17:07, 3 June 2024
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    aphorisms that are contradictory right next to each other. Aphorisms are also momentary truths. They're not decrees. And I could tell you in nearly every case...
    33 KB (3,766 words) - 15:53, 3 June 2024
  • and therefore takes into account its transient nature not less than its momentary existence; because it lets nothing impose upon it, and is in its essence...
    36 KB (4,766 words) - 22:02, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for N. K. Jemisin
    "Announcing WisCon 38's Guests of Honor: Hiromi Goto and N.K. Jemisin" A Momentary Taste of WisCon 37 (Elizabeth Stone, ed.) Issue #4 (May 26, 2013), p....
    30 KB (2,560 words) - 20:16, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hero's journey
    be a multitude of preliminary victories, unsustainable ecstasies, and momentary glimpses of the wonderful land. This is where the hero gains items given...
    61 KB (8,148 words) - 01:59, 5 July 2024
  • Constantine. Modern biographers of Constantine see his conversion less as a momentary phenomenon than as a step in a lifelong process. In "The Three Apples"...
    10 KB (1,397 words) - 13:02, 21 March 2024
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    either to a quick ascent or to manufacture. The effect is enhanced by the momentary suggestion, through a pun, that she might be climbing the curtains. The...
    24 KB (2,993 words) - 07:24, 9 July 2024
  • Kingsmen and the Cha-Cha-Chá", in Eric Weisbard, ed., Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music (Duke University Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-8223-4041-6...
    6 KB (533 words) - 15:08, 1 June 2024
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    Ikenga (category Igbo gods)
    and Ododo warriors were stupefied by the incredible spectacle and in a momentary recovery they retreated in disarray. Ikenga chim nyelum, taa oji (Ikenga...
    14 KB (2,089 words) - 01:36, 15 March 2024
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    kissed the Black Stone. This push generated a backward current, creating a momentary opening around the Black Stone as I came to it; I swiftly accepted the...
    40 KB (5,171 words) - 23:00, 28 June 2024
  • powerless, as he influenced a human to create a time machine and the momentary leak in time gave him enough power to pull someone gullible and stupid...
    371 KB (1,038 words) - 21:57, 8 July 2024
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    accounts in the Jeffs trial. Singular, Stephen (July 7, 2009). When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought...
    59 KB (5,847 words) - 10:18, 3 July 2024
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    Rawson 1994a, p. 437. Rawson 1994a, p. 436, noting that Sextus fomented a momentary rebellion and that Quintus Caecilius Bassus led a revolt in Syria which...
    138 KB (16,218 words) - 20:38, 6 July 2024
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