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“Gates of Heaven”: Significance of the Signs of Cancer and Leo on French Medieval Portals “天堂之门”:巨蟹座和狮子座在法国中世纪门户上的意义

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.0123.02.07

Ivana Lemcool

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‘Gates of Heaven’: Significance of the Signs of Cancer and Leo on French Medieval Portals “天堂之门”:巨蟹座和狮子座在法国中世纪门户上的意义

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.0123.0207

Ivana Lemcool

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Hestia: The Indo-European Goddess of the Cosmic Central Fire 赫斯提亚:掌管宇宙中央火焰的印欧女神

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.0123.0203

M. De Martino

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Joshua’s Celestial Miracle was not an Eclipse: the Long and the Short 约书亚的天象神迹不是日蚀，而是长日蚀和短日蚀

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.0123.0205

M. van der Sluijs

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Joshua’s Celestial Miracle was not an Eclipse: the Long and the Short 约书亚的天象神迹不是日蚀，而是长日蚀和短日蚀

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.0123.02.05

M. V. D. Sluijs

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The Astrological Chart of the Coronation of King Sebastião of Portugal 葡萄牙国王塞巴斯蒂安<e:1>加冕的星象图

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.0222.0205

Carlota Simões

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In memory of Razafindrabe: a General Ethnography of the Astrologer’s Skill in West Bezanozano, Central East Madagascar 纪念拉扎芬德拉布:马达加斯加中东部西贝扎诺扎诺占星师技能的一般民族志

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.0222.0209

Christel Mattheeuws

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Inscapes: Introducing a New Term to Cultural Astronomy 景观:介绍文化天文学的一个新术语

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.0222.0203

Laura Andrikopoulos

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Cultural Astronomy with Reference to the Mishing Community of Assam 参考阿萨姆邦渔业社区的文化天文学

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.0222.0207

Saurabh Kumar Nath

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Ištar’s Journey: Above and Below Ištar的旅程:上与下

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.0122.0203

J. Bidmead, M. Love

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