Definition and meaning of NAIW :

NAIW: National Association of Insurance Women.

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Definition and meaning of NAIW :

NAIW: National Association of Insurance Women.

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WATCHERS

Angels of Daniel's Apocalypse, headed by Semyaza and Azazel. They descend to earth to teach magic, agriculture, weapon-making, ornaments through spiritual fornication with earthlings. They are finally routed by the four archangels. Finally Jehovah sets Mastema over them as a controller of mankind. The Watchers were originally good but tempted by earth women, who appeared when they were having intercourse with their husbands. From lusting after the Watchers, the women conceived "forms alien from the seed of men."

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Mishnah (Hebrew, Jewish). The older portion of the Jewish Talmud, or oral law,, consisting of supplementary regulations for the guidance of the Jews with an ample commentary. The contents are arranged in six sections, treating of Seeds, Feasts, Women, Damages, Sacred Things and Purification. Rabbi Judah Haunasee codified the Mishnah about AM. 140.

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Pyrrha (Ancient Greek). A daughter of Epimatheos and Pandora, who was married to Deucalion. After a deluge when mankind was almost annihilated, Pyrrha and Deucalion made men and women out of stones which they threw behind them.

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ARTEMIS –

1. Greek Goddess of the Forest.

2. symbol of wilderness in women which is not to be lost (Robert Bly) (NAD)

The Greek version of the classical moon-goddess, whom the Romans called Diana. Artemis may mean: Height Source of Water; as the moon was anciently supposed to be the source and ruler of all waters. (ABC)

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ATHENA (Athene) - 1. Greek Goddess of Wisdom and held back the dawn for Odysseus and Penelope.

2. a feminine archetype expressed by a women interested in a kind of male power, philosophy and consciousness (Robert Bly) (NAD)

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PSYCHE - ‘breath’ 1. soul, spirit, mind.

2. mental or psychological structure of the personality.

3. (cap) young women beloved by Eros in Greek mythology.

4. second emanation of the One, world spirit in neoplatonism. (Greek) (NAD)

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OLD FATE: Known also as Dame Fate. The Spinner of the Threads of Fate. Seen sometimes as a Loathsome Lady and sometimes Lethal Goddess, She, whose secret and unknown name is said with fear and dread sometimes appeared as Three Separate Women in different cultural contexts as the Morai, the Parcae, the Norns.

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Vantasi - one who eats his own vomit. This refers to one who abandons household life and formally enters the renounced order, but who again establishes connection with women.

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Minerva (Latin) Italian goddess of intelligence, inventiveness, arts practiced by women, and of school children, physicians, poets, etc. Her oldest sanctuaries were in Rome, and her chief festival was the Quinquatrus, celebrated on March 19. Later identified with the Greek Pallas Athena.

See also ATHENA

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wise woman healing (WiseWoman Healing Ways, Wise Woman tradition, wisewoman ways): Variation of Nature Cure. It emphasizes empiricism and intuition and includes herbalism, meditation, ritual, spirit healing, and spirit work with plants. One of its principles is that the moon guides women's bodies.

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Qodesh (Hebrew) Also Kedosh, Kedesh. Holiness, sanctity; a holy place, sanctuary; that which is holy or consecrated.

The feminine plural, Qedeshoth, and masculine plural, Qedeshim, in Biblical times referred to the women and men of degenerate times who were attached to certain temples as temple servants, the women here being equivalent to the nachnis (nautch-girls of the Hindu pagodas) or temple prostitutes. The men were "Galli, the mutilated priests of the lascivious rites of Venus Astarte, who lived 'by the house of the Lord' " (TG 169).

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Definition and meaning of Lucretia Mott:

Mott, Lucretia

Like many women who began their public careers in the abolitionist movement, Mott subsequently turned to advocate women's rights. She and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights in 1848.

(Source: Madrid Waddington High School )

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Definition and meaning of Waltham System:

Waltham System

The Boston Associates developed the Waltham System of employing young unmarried women as workers in their New England textile mills. The women lived in boardinghouses and their proper behavior was strictly policed. By 1840, for economy reasons, the women were replaced by immigrant laborers.

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Definition and meaning of WLRT :

WLRT: See Women Leaders Round Table. (LI)

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upasarga: (Sanskrit) "Trouble, obstacle."

Difficulties, challenges or distractions which retard one's progress on the spiritual path. Numerous lists are given in scripture under the Sanskrit terms upasarga, dosha (defect; blemish), klesha, vighna and antaraya.

The Yogatattva Upanishad lists twenty doshas including hunger, thirst, excitement, grief, anger and greed; as well as five vighnas: sloth, boastfulness, bad company, cultivation of mantras for wrong reasons and longing for women. Patanjali names nine antarayas to success in yoga, including sickness, doubt, sloth, nonattainment and instability. Spiritually, all these obstacles unless overcome lead to a dead end of unhappiness and despair, often affording steps which can only be retraced through reincarnating again.

See: purity-impurity.

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Feminist Witchcraft:

Several new monotheistic religions started since the early 1970s by women in the feminist community who belonged to the women’s spirituality movement and/or who had contact with Neopagan Witches. It is partially an outgrowth of Neopagan Witchcraft, with male deities booted unceremoniously(!) out of the religion entirely, and partially a conglomeration of independent and eclectic do-it-yourself covens of spiritually-inclined feminists. The religions usually involve worshiping only the syncretic Goddess and using Her as a source of inspiration, magical power and psychological growth. Their scholarship is generally abysmal and men are usually not allowed to join or participate.

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Houris (French of Persian huri, Arabic hawra` from hawira to be black-eyed)

Women with large black eyes set in large whites, described in the Koran as beautiful virgins of unfading youth and free from disease, who await the devout Moslem in paradise. Every Moslem who attains paradise is allotted 72 houris.

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Houris (French of Persian huri, Arabic hawra` from hawira to be black-eyed)

Women with large black eyes set in large whites, described in the Koran as beautiful virgins of unfading youth and free from disease, who await the devout Moslem in paradise. Every Moslem who attains paradise is allotted 72 houris.

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Lupercalia (Latin) Roman festival of purification and expiation held on February 15, originating from a pastoral festival dating before the foundation of Rome. The power invoked was that of Faunus (under the name of Lupercus), Pan, or some similar nature god, considered to be protector of flocks and promoter of fertility.

The best known feature of the later Roman rite was the running around of the two youths called Luperci, who smote people with leather thongs, especially women wishing to be cured of barrenness. In 494 it was changed to the Christian Feast of the Purification.

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Ilithyia (Latin) Eileithyia (Greek) (from Greek erchymai to come, come back)

She who comes to aid women who are in travail; Greek goddess of childbirth, daughter of Zeus and Hera. Essentially a lunar divinity, her generative functions are often adopted by other divinities, such as Hera, Artemis, Juno, Lucina, and Diana. She was worshiped especially at Crete and Delos, though sanctuaries and statues were dedicated to her in many places.

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