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    In classical Roman religion, a genius loci (pl.: genii locorum) was the protective spirit of a place. It was often depicted in religious iconography as...
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  • Genius Loci is a novel by Ben Aaronovitch, focusing on the early career of Bernice "Benny" Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the...
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    Genius Loci is a 2020 French animated short film by Adrien Merigeau. Renee, a young loner, sees a mythical oneness beneath the urban chaos one night....
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    individual place had a genius (genius loci) and so did powerful objects, such as volcanoes. The concept extended to some specifics: the genius of the theatre...
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  • designed by Tadao Ando, houses the Parang-i gallery. Ando also designed Genius Loci, home of the resort’s meditation hall and media art zone. Mario Botta...
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  • Genius Loci and Other Tales is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by American writer Clark Ashton Smith. It was released...
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  • ancient Rome, the genius (plural in Latin genii) was the guiding spirit or tutelary deity of a person, family (gens), or place (genius loci). Connotations...
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    resemblance. Scholars have stated that he is the spirit of a place, a genius loci. Old Tom Bombadil was a merry fellow; bright blue his jacket was and...
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    Nereids, Naiad, water nymph or mermaid, the earth being (terroir), the genius loci or guardian spirit of a location, the succubus who comes from the diabolical...
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  • or thing Genius loci, the protective spirit of a place The emperor's genius, an element of the ancient Roman Imperial cult The Minoan Genius, a legendary...
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    lay patron of Palermo. He was the ancient numen and genius loci of the Sicilian city. The Genius is the emblem of Palermo, the personification of the...
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    nymphs were also spirits invariably bound to places, not unlike the Latin genius loci, and sometimes this produced complicated myths like the cult of Arethusa...
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  • The Cloppenburg Museum Village and Lower Saxon Open-Air Museum (German: Museumsdorf Cloppenburg – Niedersächsisches Freilichtmuseum) located in the Lower...
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  • featured niches for images of the tutelary deities, who might include the genius loci or guardian spirit of the site, Hercules, Silvanus, Fortuna Conservatrix...
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    comparable Roman concept is the genius who accompanies and protects a person or presides over a place (see genius loci). A distorted view of Homer's daemon...
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  • alternate personality of the former patient Mary, but rather a malevolent genius loci. He also points out that the deleted scenes included on the DVD help...
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  • was a god invoked alongside the genius loci on a single inscription found in Angoulême. Celtic polytheism Genius loci Robur in celtnet Nicole Jufer &...
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    Cockrill, Stephen Chambers, Lino Mannocci & Christopher Wood) (2009) Genius Loci, Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo, Italy (2008) Gli Amici Pittori Di Londra...
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    godmother Fairy-lock Fairy painting Fairy riding Fairy tale List Familiar Genius loci Household deity Hungry grass Nature spirit Tutelary deity Water spirit...
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    godmother Fairy-lock Fairy painting Fairy riding Fairy tale List Familiar Genius loci Household deity Hungry grass Nature spirit Tutelary deity Water spirit...
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    godmother Fairy-lock Fairy painting Fairy riding Fairy tale List Familiar Genius loci Household deity Hungry grass Nature spirit Tutelary deity Water spirit...
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  • culture.[original research?] The Roman term for spirit of place was Genius loci, by which it is sometimes still referred. This has often been historically...
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  • when it began to be distinguished from ingenium in a discussion of the genius loci, or "spirit of the place". It was a way of discussing essence, in that...
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  • particularly looking at the notion of place, also place identity and genius loci. As such, the discipline covers a variety of scales, from detailed design...
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    both within and out of doors, as a household spirit or a malevolent genius loci (that is, a geographically defined spirit) inhabiting fields or other...
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  • (Finnish: Mustion linna) in Karis, Raseborg Germany Chopper Graeco-Roman Genius loci Shade Vrykolakas Malta Black Knight, believed to haunt Fort Manoel Blue...
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  • godmother Fairy-lock Fairy painting Fairy riding Fairy tale List Familiar Genius loci Household deity Hungry grass Nature spirit Tutelary deity Water spirit...
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    godmother Fairy-lock Fairy painting Fairy riding Fairy tale List Familiar Genius loci Household deity Hungry grass Nature spirit Tutelary deity Water spirit...
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    Designers for Temple Square gardens base their flowering patterns on the genius loci, a Roman term for spirit of place. The technique is explored based on...
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    godmother Fairy-lock Fairy painting Fairy riding Fairy tale List Familiar Genius loci Household deity Hungry grass Nature spirit Tutelary deity Water spirit...
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