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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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The Greeks were defeated by Turkish forces led by Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk) and were forced to withdraw in the summer of 1922.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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The Greeks were awed by the antiquity of Egypt, so much so that they regarded it as the founder of religious ceremonies, and its culture was a great influence upon their own politics, art and religion.
The Greeks divided this Universal power into twelve main branches, and called upon the god representing the particular quality they desired to see into manifestation.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Ancient Greeks relied on the Oracle at Delphi for intuitive insight into the future and there are references to seers and prophets in ancient Egyptian manuscripts.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The early Greeks followed a fertility religion stemming from the ancient Babylonian mystery religion of the Canaanites.
The Greeks and Romans many times refer to the Iberian Celts as superb horsemen and their horses as exceptional.
This word was coined by the Macedonian Greeks who colonized and ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great conquered it.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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The Greeks considered love to be a form of divine grace; thus their inimitable sculptures personifying various gods and goddesses glorify the sensual.
The Greeks claimed and used philosophy to prove that their gods were outside of time and could thereby know the future and do whatsoever they willed with the lives and destinies of men.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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The Greeks and Romans too adopted the cross as their religious symbol many centuries before Christianity did the same.
The Greeks believed that their various gods actually COMMUNICATED WITH theIR SPECIAL PRIESTS by MEANS OF SUCH oracles.
The Greeks were not unreasonable in seeing these things as due to the malevolence of gods who were in conflict among themselves, but who might be brought under the authority of a higher god whose purposes might win out in the end.
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