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    All Souls' Day, also called The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, observed by Christians...
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    The Well of Souls (Arabic: بئر الأرواح, romanized: Biʾr al-Arwaḥ; sometimes translated Pit of Souls, Cave of Spirits, or Well of Spirits), is a partly...
    16 KB (1,927 words) - 10:05, 13 June 2024
  • "Souls of the Departed" is the twelfth episode and midseason premiere of the fifth season of the American fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time, which...
    13 KB (1,839 words) - 14:47, 5 April 2024
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    purification after death. All Soul's Day, established in the 10th century, turned popular attention to the condition of departed souls. While the idea of Purgatory...
    34 KB (4,543 words) - 02:06, 18 June 2024
  • take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife. In addition to adapting the manga series it is based...
    70 KB (6,336 words) - 20:29, 10 June 2024
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    the ceremony is done—offering black sesame and water as oblation to departed souls. This oblation is offered to father, grandfather, great-grandfather...
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  • take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife, and set him on journeys to various ghostly realms...
    92 KB (8,436 words) - 14:50, 18 June 2024
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    compline of 1 November. It is thus the day before All Souls' Day, which commemorates the faithful departed. In many traditions, All Saints' Day is part of the...
    55 KB (6,026 words) - 09:58, 21 June 2024
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    All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England....
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  • Holy Soul may also refer to: All Souls (disambiguation), in particular Church penitent, souls in Purgatory Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls Church...
    487 bytes (100 words) - 02:44, 2 November 2023
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    Hinduism, the agents of Yama, the god of the netherworld. They carry the departed souls of human beings who had not achieved moksha to Yamaloka, the underworld...
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  • the major religious destinations on the day. People believe that the departed souls attain moksha (liberation) if the ritualistic homage is performed that...
    2 KB (156 words) - 12:39, 6 August 2023
  • friends. But the Peace Organization picks up his scent. 11 "For All Departed Souls" November 23, 2023 (2023-11-23) Kaede finds Kento and, alarmed by his...
    10 KB (435 words) - 01:28, 24 April 2024
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    saints as intercessors with God; the latter also believes in prayer for departed souls in Purgatory. Other religious groups, however, consider veneration of...
    62 KB (7,709 words) - 06:46, 23 April 2024
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    (1494–1536) argued against Thomas More in favor of soul sleep: And ye, in putting them [the departed souls] in heaven, hell and purgatory, destroy the arguments...
    125 KB (16,671 words) - 08:51, 15 June 2024
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    and/or arranging burial in a planned manner; some considered the fate of departed souls to be fixed and unchangeable (e.g. ancient Mesopotamia) and considered...
    11 KB (1,187 words) - 04:28, 10 May 2024
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    because they believed the lake's cold waters to be the dwelling place of departed souls. As part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, Grand Lake forms a continuous...
    7 KB (546 words) - 09:51, 17 June 2024
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    have originally represented souls of the dead; jack-o'-lanterns were used to ward off evil spirits. On All Saints' and All Souls' Day during the 19th century...
    172 KB (18,981 words) - 13:20, 19 June 2024
  • and the retro-futuristic version of the 1950s, through which recently departed souls, represented as calaca-like figures, travel before they reach their...
    124 KB (11,142 words) - 01:58, 5 April 2024
  • the closest relatives make a sacred offering to deities so that the departed soul may enter Svarga. In Hindu mythology, Parashurama offered a tarpana...
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