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    Winged genie is the conventional term for a recurring motif in the iconography of Assyrian sculpture. Winged genies are usually bearded male figures sporting...
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  • Look up Genie, genie, or ginni in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A genie, or jinn, is a supernatural creature in early pre-Islamic Arabian and later...
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    Jinn (redirect from Genie)
    Jinn (Arabic: جِنّ‎), also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies, are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabia and later in Islamic culture...
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    Lamassu (redirect from Winged bull)
    figures in the low-relief schemes running round palace rooms, where winged genie figures are common, but they sometimes appear within narrative reliefs...
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    the inscription on a comb's body, as a winged solar panel. The period of the comb is about 3000 BC. Such winged solar panels were later found in the funeral...
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    hippocampus, Talos, and Pegasus. The motif of the winged man appears in the Assyrian winged genie, and is taken up in the Biblical seraphim and Chayot...
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    beings, called by such terms as "winged genie", but the major Assyrian deities are only represented by symbols. The "genies" often perform a gesture of purification...
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  • for the needs of commerce". God on the Winged Wheel coin "Archaeologists find ancient seal with rare winged 'genie' in Jerusalem near Western Wall". The...
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    Cone refer to twin attributes that are frequently held in the hands of winged genies depicted in the art of Mesopotamia and within the context of Ancient...
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    The Douglas AIR-2 Genie (previous designation MB-1) was an unguided air-to-air rocket with a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead. It was deployed by the United...
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    bipedal, man-like creature Will-o'-the-Wisp (Worldwide) – Spectral fire Winged genie (Assyrian) – Bearded male figures sporting birds Wirry-cow (Scottish)...
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    mārid can be easily tricked by humans. Genies in popular culture Ghoul Jinn Qareen Shaitan Sil'a Winged genie Manzur, Ibn. "Lisan al-'arab (entry for...
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    steel girder skeleton). On 11 August 1904, a violent storm caused the winged genie to collapse, but luckily it stayed suspended against one of the terraces...
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    (north-west Iran), who bows and prostrates before the king. From Nimrud "Winged genie", Nimrud c. 870 BC, with inscription running across his midriff. The...
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  • Doppelgänger Etiäinen Familiar spirit Genii Jinn Shadow (psychology) Tulpa Winged genie Anwer Mahmoud Zanaty Glossary Of Islamic Terms IslamKotob page 184 Kelly...
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    often depicted as winged in art. Eris (mythology) was depicted as winged in ancient Greek art. Eros/Cupid is often depicted as winged. The Faravahar of...
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  • angel with multiple wings. Winged cat – A cat with the wings of a bird. Winged genie – A humanoid with bird wings. Winged horse – A horse with the wings...
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     175. Vicchio 2008, p. 181. Quran 17:63–64 Annemarie Schimmel Gabriel's Wing: A Study Into the Religious Ideas of Sir Muhammad Iqbal Brill Archive 1963...
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    transported. The cargo included: 2 winged, human-headed Lamassu bulls, weighing almost 30 tonnes each 2 winged genies, weighing almost 13 tonnes each Over...
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    single statue of a nude female is known. The Assyrian form of the winged genie, winged spirits with bearded human heads seen in reliefs, influenced Ancient...
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    inscription that was once located above it, though most see it as a tutelary genie, or protective figure and note that the same inscription was also written...
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    who built the palace. Other reliefs showed the king, his court, and "winged genie" and lamassu protective minor deities. Most palace reliefs occupied the...
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    Archaeology Museum. Woman holding a mirror and a tambourine facing a winged genie with a ribbon and a branch with leaves. Ancient Greek red-figure oinochoe...
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    Le génie du mal (or The Genius of Evil or The Spirit of Evil), known informally in English as Lucifer or The Lucifer of Liège is a religious sculpture...
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    symbolic and allegorical forms, such as sphinx, mermaid, chimera, medusa, winged genie, etc. A type of artificial and androgynous, ambiguous beauty became fashionable...
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    This relief depicting a winged genie was once in the palace of King Kapara. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore....
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    lion, and bird wings, under the name Lamassu. Iraq Museum Relief with a winged genie with bucket and cone; 713–706 BC; height: 3.3 m; Louvre Lion weight;...
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  • original on 12 April 2014. Retrieved 8 December 2016. "Ancient seal with winged 'genie,' inscribed Jewish name found in Jerusalem". The Jerusalem Post | JPost...
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    the tomb wore a large cap-like crown decorated with pomegranates and winged genies. She was identified with a stamp to be queen Hama. Objects: (All item...
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    often attended to in Assyrian palace reliefs by human or eagle-headed winged genies, or the King, and blessed or fertilized with bucket and cone. Assyriologists...
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