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another ancient Hermetic text: the extremely brief and elliptical Emerald Tablet,

The Three Initiates • The Kybalion: Centenary Edition

The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

Dictionary dump (unformatted): a/an : “A was modified from the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the eagle. In Hebrew it was an ox, and in Greek it was a “symbol of a bad AUGURY in the sacrifices.” The distinction between a/an happened around the 1300s. aardvark : South African “earth pig” aaron’s serpent : “something so powerful as to swallow up mi

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. (Illustrated)

John L. Stephens

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The Venetian Atlas is a recently rediscovered work of the 14th-century Genoese cartographer Petrus Vesconte, thought to have been completed towards the end of his Venetian period (c. 1330). Though the geographer has long been renowned for the accuracy of his nautical maps of the Mediterranean and Black seas, this long-lost portolan chart is particu... See more

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WIP definitions:

Aganippe : In Greek legend, a fountain of Boetia at the foot of Mount Helicon, dedicated to the MUSES because it imparted poetic inspiration. Hence the Muses are sometimes called Aganippides. Also the NYMPH of this fountain.
ages: Hesiod (8th century BC): golden, silver, brazen, heroic, iron (also planets) — Shakespeare's 7 ages in A

agnostic : unknowable.
agoraphobia : fear of unfamiliar situations in public.
agrarian : agre = acre, of the land.
Amalthea’s horn : a myth about abundance / having everything you desire. Zeus’s nurse fed goat milk to an infant, snapped off it’s horn, and promised that Zeus will have a pampered life.
amaranth : a fadeless flower.
Amaurote : Thomas Moore

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WIP words: ag, agglomerate, agglutinate, aghast, agog, agronomy, -aholic, ail, ailron, aria, adjar, akimbo, ambiguity, anagesis, androcentrism, animism, dissemination, egotistical sublime, empiricism, exegesis, explication, foregrounding, formulaic, impressionism, ambry, Osiris, amerindian, amoret, amphisbaena, amrita.