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    Rainmaking is a weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke rain. Among the best known examples of weather modification rituals are North American...
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  • Rainmaking, also known as artificial precipitation, artificial rainfall and pluviculture, is the act of attempting to artificially induce or increase precipitation...
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    comparison can be made against Buddhist procedures for rainmaking during the Tang dynasty. The rainmaking tract in the Collected Dhāraṇī Sūtras [zh] (Book 11...
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    formulas, set phrases and patterns of imagery in rainmaking songs from all the Balkan languages". The rainmaking practice is a shared tradition among Balkan...
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  • Rainmaker or The Rainmaker may refer to: A practitioner of rainmaking A practitioner of rainmaking (ritual) The Rainmaker, a mysterious character in the film...
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    painting. This is a conscious evocation of rain and may even be a rainmaking ritual by the artist; lines 32 and 33 of Chen Rong's poetic inscription describe...
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    abode. Others, however, prefer to view the 'musical challenge' as a rainmaking ritual and the emergence from the turtle abode as the Opening of the Maize...
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    During the drought, Jeongjo was nervous just like the people and did a rainmaking ritual for his people. He also was deeply concerned about the continuing...
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    in Shang rainmaking rituals), Lewis suggests that "Huang" in "Huangdi" might originally have meant "rainmaking shaman" or "rainmaking ritual." Citing...
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  • of natural things. Balobedu Matrilineality Matrilineal succession Rainmaking (ritual) She (novel) The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Davidson, Patricia;...
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  • Mhande (category Rainmaking (ritual))
    and dance. It is a vital element of the mutoro ceremony, an annual rain ritual of the Karanga. The music and dance of mhande are intricately intertwined...
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    HaTanna'im VehaAmora'im). Epimenides Line in the sand Magic circle Rainmaking (ritual) Rip Van Winkle Seven Sleepers and Khidr Zisurrû "Talmud, Taanit 19a"...
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  • Lapis manalis (category Rainmaking (ritual))
    grammarian Festus held the cover to the gate of the underworld and the rainmaking stone to be two distinct stones. One such stone covered the mundus Cereris...
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  • Hae Nang Maew (category Rainmaking (ritual))
    ពិធីហែនាងម៉ែវ; 'Procession of Lady Cat') is a traditional folklore rainmaking ritual cat procession which can be seen in Cambodia as well as Central and...
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  • Omek Tannou (category Rainmaking (ritual))
    Omek tannou, Ommk tangou or Amuk taniqu is an ancient Tunisian rainmaking ritual which was inherited from Punic and Berber traditions involving invocations...
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    Caloian (category Rainmaking (ritual))
    Caloian (also Calian(i), Caloiță, Scaloian, Gherman, or Iene) was a rainmaking and fertility rite in Romania, similar in some ways to Dodola. Its namesake...
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    addressed the following prayer to the deity for plants and cattle: In rainmaking ritual songs from southwestern Albania, people used to pray to the Sun, invoking...
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  • acknowledges the foreign elements in the god's character by supposing that rainmaking rituals and concepts were brought to Japan in ancient times from the continent...
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  • and a PhD with his thesis "Da:wajil : a Western Desert Aboriginal rainmaking ritual", from the University of British Columbia. Tonkinson is well-known...
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    Green Corn Ceremony (category Ritual dances)
    ceremony, involving fasting and several other comparisons each year. Rainmaking (ritual) Roy, Christian (2005). Traditional festivals: a multicultural encyclopedia...
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  • skills to lead the traditional leopard hunt or to engage in the "rainmaking" ritual, both of which were necessary to prove a kgosikgolo's legitimacy....
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    beliefs, the Sun makes the sky cloudy or clears it up. Albanian rituals for rainmaking invoke the Sky and the Sun. In Albanian tradition the Sun is referred...
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  • connected the sound of Dzidzilela to the sound of the South Slavic rainmaking ritual Dodola. Notes Latin: Dzydzileyla Polish: Dzidzilela, Dzidzilejla,...
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    Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public...
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  • wang 尪 "cripple; lame person; emaciated person" engaged in "ritual exposure" rainmaking techniques based upon homeopathic or sympathetic magic. As Unschuld...
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  • Before the rise of Islam, diviners invoked these stars in rainmaking rituals called istisqāʔ. Rituals took place during specific times, when the sun was in...
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    Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas (category Rainmaking (ritual))
    after the Days of Prayer came 168 days later on October 9, 2011. Rainmaking (ritual) 2011 Texas wildfires Efficacy of prayer Perry, Rick (April 21, 2011)...
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    dragon of the pool will cause heavy rain to drive the object out. Rainmaking rituals invoking dragons are still very common in many Chinese villages, where...
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  • she committed ritual suicide. This was done to pass her spirit over to reside within the next Rain Queen and to increase her rainmaking power. This was...
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    made use of the esoteric Mahapratisara dharani for the purpose of a rainmaking ritual that is described in the text. In the last years of his life, Fazang...
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