Oral tradition

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According to oral tradition, white men courted women of mixed race at so-called quadroon balls and negotiated the terms of their relationships with the women s families. Some men settled large sums, up to 8000, on the woman of their choice. The man generally bought her a house and agreed to set aside a certain sum for their children. The connection typically lasted several years or more. 

Jim Griesemer. It s radical in the sense that I showed in that picture, that copying is radically unlike progeneration. So in that sense it s radical. But there s no reason that different kinds of causal process can t produce quite similar patterns, so I m not scared off by the possibility that an oral tradition could mimic some material overlap process. What s interesting to me is not whether but what the dynamics are of those systems and whether they have different characteristics as evolving systems, if indeed they are. 

A prayer from the Oral Tradition, transmitted to initiates of the Qabalah mouth-to-ear, from teacher to student. 

One of the most important developments in occult tradition to occur in the Middle Ages was the Jewish magical practice called Kabalah. The name Kabalah means received or oral tradition in Hebrew. It can be transliterated as Kabala, Kabalah, Kabbala, or the same three combinations beginning with the letter Q or the letter C instead of a... 

The teachings of Aristotle and events in Egypt, India, China, and Mesopotamia stimulated the practice of alchemy. The early roots of alchemy, which was practiced for nearly two thousand years, are difficult to trace because much of the practice was shrouded in mystery and transmitted by oral tradition. The two main goals of the alchemists were to produce gold from base metals and to develop potions that would confer health and even immortality. The alchemists were crafts people who combined serious experimentation with astrology, incantations, and magic in hopes of finding the philosopher s stone. 

The focus of this paper is to review and identify those psychoactive plant species of sub-Saharan Africa. The biological and cultural diversity of Africa is immense (there are over 2,000 languages represented in sub-Saharan Africa). However, these ancient medicinal systems, usually based on oral traditions, are poorly documented even to this day. In contrast. North Africa and the Middle East have a relatively well documented traditional medicine (12-14). The Babylonians, Assyrians and Sumerians recorded heibal remedies in cuneiform on clay tables as long ago as 4000 BC. Not only can we attribute the origins of civilization to North Africa and the Middle East but also possibly the most important psychoactive plant, Papaver somniferum (opium poppy), from which the first alkaloid and psychoactive chemical was isolated. Morphine was first isolated by the German pharmacist Sertuner in 1803 (15). 

On the one hand, Meurdrac s work falls into the tradition of the books of secrets. She describes the preparation of compound remedies and addresses one part of her text specifically to women, treating there all the things that may conserve and increase beauty. Yet Meurdrac is clearly not just relying on an oral tradition or on books of recipes for her chemical knowledge. Her book tells us that she was aware of the major chemical writers of her day and was also clearly knowledgeable about medieval traditions of distillation alchemy, especially the literature focused on the extraction of fifth essences influenced by Rupescissa and Lull. Following from these traditions, Meurdrac considered mercury to be the spirit of life that the process of separation from terrestrial impurities could make... 

The origins of kava and its methods of dispersal across Oceania are not known. Kava usage itself is much older than any documented history of this part of the world and oral traditions do not seem to have brought forward relevant, reliable, or consistent accounts. It should be noted that at first contact with Europeans none of the island communities had an alphabet, and therefore a written language of their own. Furthermore, the journal entries that are available are very much from the Eurocentric point of view, especially of the explorers, travelers, and Christian missionaries. However, a consideration of some of these accounts provides an insight not available from other sources. 

In fact we read this in The Shepherd attributed to Her mas of Cumae, one of the four Apostolic Fathers, immediate inheritors and successors of the Apostles in the oral tradition of Christian ity ... 

Rabbinical Judaism subsequently developed from the Pharisees. The Rabbis continued to demonstrate three of the characteristics we have come to expect from the Indo-Hittite compression. They supported oral tradition, believed in the immortality of the soul, and sought to eliminate the matriarchal religion of the Great Triple Mother Goddess and frowned on so-called messianic bloodlines. 

Mishnah is a collection of oral laws that forms the first or oldest part of the Talmud. These oral laws were formulated between 135-220CE by Rabbi Judah ha-Kadosh also known as Judah ha-Nasi. Some of this oral tradition dates from at least the first century BCE with the Elders of the Sanhedrin, Rabbis Shammai and Hillel. 

Now 62 million years is a long time, but this is going by the supposition that not one gram of salt was in the ocean at the beginning. When God created the earth, it is most likely that He created the ocean water with salt included. There is also the matter of the Flood—a cataclysmic event that is documented in not only the Bible s account of Noah and the Ark, but in the written and oral traditions of a number of civilizations—that worold have resulted in massive erosion and therefore a massive increase in the sodium content of the ocean. Although the sodium content of the ocean cannot prove that the earth was created only 6,000 years ago, it can prove that is not biUions of years old, as required in the theory of evolution. 

Monasticism, originating in Egypt, was the basis for this revival. As an institution Christian monasticism underwent several reforms that rendered it independent of secular leaders and made it able to pursue an agenda of its own. To remain independent however, monasteries had to be more-or-less self-sufficient, so in addition to the traditional medieval monk bent over a manuscript, these monks were farmers, physicians, and artisans. As literate artisans they were able to record what had been an oral tradition of practical chemical technology inherited from the Roman Empire and introduced by invasions. One such monk was Theophilus, a Benedictine. 

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