geometric parameters in indigenous mapping of routes to spiritual
forces?
Thanks.
Obododimma
On Thursday, August 26, 2010, toyin adepoju
<toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com> wrote:
> BENIN OLOKUN SYMBOLISM AND COSMOLOGICAL INFINITY Toyin Adepoju
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> Igiohen[Olokun priestess] Madame Aigbovia, Chief Priestess of multiple deities, draws
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> cross-design), she is finishing a symbol of the sun which is opposite
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> Benin,Oredo Local Government Area, Nigeria.
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> ...it follows in the first place that the radiation emitted by the
> heavenly bodies will,in part,leave the Newtonian system of the
> universe,passing radially outwards,to become ineffective and lost in the
> infinite.May not entire heavenly bodies fare likewise?It is hardly
> possible to give a negative answer to this question.For it follows from
> the assumption of a finite limit for Φ at spatial infinity that a
> heavenly body with finite kinetic energy is able to reach spatial
> infinity by overcoming the Newtonian forces of attraction.By
> statistical mechanics this case must occur from time to time,as long as
> the total energy of the stellar system-transferred to one single
> star-is great enough to send the star on its journey to infinity,
> whence it can never return.
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> Albert Einsten,"Cosmological Considerations on the General Theory of Relativity <http://library.du.ac.in/dspace/bitstream/1/1581/3/Ch08-Cosmological%20considerations%20on%20the%20general%20theory%20of%20relativity.pdf>" in On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy <http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pb6HR4DAEeMC&dq=On+the+Shoulders+of+Giants:+The+Great+Works+of+Physics+and+Astronomy&hl=en&ei=Vet1TPCYO9uJOOqEocYG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA>. ed Stephen Hawking.Philadelphia:Running Press,2002.1248-1264.1249
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> "Impermanent by Design: The Ephemeral in Africa's Tradition-based Arts <http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/afar.2010.43.1.14>" by Christine Mullen Kreamer
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> African Arts,Spring 2010, Vol. 43, No. 1, Pages 14-27 .
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> Also blogged at Olokun Waters <http://olokunwaters.blogspot.com/2010/08/benin-olokun-symbolism-and-cosmological.html>, hosted under Research Programs at Olokun Centre for Research in the Humanities and Sciences <http://www.wix.com/danteadinkra/OLOKUN-CENTRE-FOR-RESEARCH-IN-THE-HUMANITIES-AND-SCIENCES?orgDocID=cjSvtz%3Bhh0Q-a&gu_id=4564a20e-7425-4eca-90e6-ce5312bd748d&wixComputerID=1qG%2FVM5Be%2FlcF3zb3rdPccrjYQfjXOUzlK5WD9JfQ338ENJzqR8yIqj2DCcBuojKlQkIgeczv97LOtrdo7BXvA%3D%3D&partner_id=WMGs4POB1ko-a&experiment_id=empty> and under Notes at Facebook:Toyin Adepoju
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