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    The Lion of Babylon is an ancient Babylonian symbol. The Lion of Babylon symbolically represented the King of Babylon. The depiction is based on the Mesopotamian...
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    Babylon the Great, commonly known as the Whore of Babylon, refers to both a symbolic female figure and a place of evil as mentioned in the Book of Revelation...
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    proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern...
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    Marduk (section Symbol)
    of Babylon who eventually rose to power in the First Millennium BC. In the city of Babylon, Marduk was worshipped in the temple Esagila. His symbol is...
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    Babylonia (redirect from Sack of Babylon)
    capital city Babylon, has long held a place in the Abrahamic religions as a symbol of excess and dissolute power. Many references are made to Babylon in the...
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  • The list of Babylon 5 characters contains characters from the entire Babylon 5 universe. In the show, the Babylon station was conceived as a political...
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    Lion of Babylon is a stone sculpture, over 3,600 years old, that was found in the ancient city of Babylon, Iraq. Its discovery was first documented in...
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    Mesopotamia. Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the Assyrian...
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    Processional Street, which also featured depictions of lions (symbols of the goddess Ishtar). Babylon's Processional Street, the only such street yet excavated...
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    The king of Babylon (Akkadian: šakkanakki Bābili, later also šar Bābili) was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon and its kingdom, Babylonia...
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    The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon (in the area of present-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq). It was constructed c. 569...
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  • Beginning around 1991, the creator of the television series Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, participated in a number of Internet venues to discuss...
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    Death of Alexander the Great (category Babylon)
    westwards as he would then look to the setting sun, a symbol of decline. It was suggested that he enter Babylon via the Royal Gate, in the western wall, where...
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    a square and a set of compasses joined) is the single most identifiable symbol of Freemasonry. Both the square and compasses are architect's tools and...
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    project was named "Lion of Babylon" (Arabic: أسد بابل, romanized: Asad Bābil), drawing its name from an ancient Babylonian symbol that was based on the Asiatic...
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    The Two Babylons, subtitled Romanism and its Origins, is a book that started out as a religious pamphlet published in 1853 by the Presbyterian Free Church...
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    Lion of Judah (category Christian symbols)
    יהודה, Aryeh Yehudah) is a Jewish national and cultural symbol, traditionally regarded as the symbol of the tribe of Judah. The association between the Judahites...
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    African diaspora, which it believes is oppressed within Western society, or "Babylon". Many Rastas call for this diaspora's resettlement in Africa, a continent...
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    God. Each of the symbols is depicted with wings, following the biblical sources first in Ezekiel 1–2, and in Revelation. The symbols are shown with, or...
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    a patriotic symbol in Iraq. Saddam called himself son of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and had stamped the bricks of ancient Babylon with his name...
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  • (Lion of Judah/Lion of Babylon, a common Symbol in Mesopotamia) Eastern imperial eagle (Eagle of Saladin, aprimary national symbol) Shahbaz (means "royal...
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    Shaka sign (redirect from Shaka (symbol))
    July 2016. Australian Slang: schooner of beer "Definition of Schooie". Babylon. Retrieved 25 July 2016. Australian Slang: schooner of beer "U+1F919: CALL...
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    a symbol which is a conjoined representation of a crescent and a star. It is used in various historical contexts, including as a prominent symbol of...
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    Star of Ishtar (category National symbols of Iraq)
    Mesopotamian symbol of the ancient Sumerian goddess Inanna and her East Semitic counterpart Ishtar. The owl was also one of Ishtar's primary symbols. Ishtar...
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    with other animals, prominently used in the reliefs of Babylon's Procession Street. The symbol was also used to denote royal property, with objects belonging...
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    The palm branch, or palm frond, is a symbol of victory, triumph, peace, and eternal life originating in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world....
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    from the city of Babylon in the latter half of the second millennium BC and who belonged to the same family that ran the kingdom of Babylon between 1595 and...
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    Roma (personification) (category Whore of Babylon)
    with blood." While most scholars recognize that Babylon is a cipher for Rome, they also say that Babylon represents more than just the Roman city of the...
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    illustrates how Cyrus co-opted local traditions and symbols to legitimize his conquest and control of Babylon. Many elements of the text were drawn from long-standing...
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    last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from 556 BC to the fall of Babylon to the Achaemenian Empire under Cyrus the Great in 539 BC. Nabonidus was...
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