Articles

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Long form writing on figures, events, ideas and controversies across every tradition the atlas covers, distinct from the shorter facts on the subject's own page. An article takes on a single topic in depth, from a saint's life to a doctrinal dispute to the history of a sacred site, usually running well beyond what a fact card can hold.

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Entries in the Atlas: 31331

Samson's Secret and the Barber's Shears

Samu, Practice as Realization Beyond the Cushion

Samuel Defends a Lifetime of Leadership Before the People

Samuel The Lamanite And The Gadianton Robbers

Samye and the First Tibetan Monks

San Gennaro and the Liquefaction

Sanctifying the Day

Sanctifying the Name

Sanctioned Disorder: What Ritual Clowning Does

Sanctuaries on the Other Side of a Line

Sand on the Floor: The Esnoga's Design and Library

Sand That Cannot Be Measured, and a Wilderness Courtship Renewed

Sandalwood as Ritual Incense

Sande: Women's Initiation on the Upper Guinea Coast

Sangam and the Long Memory of Tamil

Sangha Is Not a Denomination and Not a Church

Sankirtana and Dance Recognized as Living Heritage

Sankirtana and the Doctrine of the Yuga-Dharma

Sankirtana: Taking the Name Into the Street

Sankofa: A Design That Pictures Its Own Proverb

Sannyasa And The Title Swami

Sanskrit Drama as Temple Offering

Sanskrit in a Japanese Mouth: The Reading Traditions

Sanskrit's Living Ritual Use Today

Santa Marian Kamalen, the Lady of Camarin

Santhara and a Case That Reached the Courts

Santiago, the Camino, and a Spanish Mission the Sources Do Not Support

Santos, Espiritismo and the Island's Popular Faith

Sapmi Across Four States, and a Truth Commission

Sappa, and the Consonant Arabic Is Named For

Saptami and the Sun

Sarah Joanna Dennis, Mrs. L. Dow Balliett

Sardius, Sard and Carnelian

Sardonyx, the Breastplate, and Antares

Sarira-Sariri Bhava: The Body-Self Relation

Sarugaku, Zeami and the Shrine Stage

Sarutahiko and the Meaning of Saru: A Monkey God in Disguise

Sarutahiko's Living Cult: Tsubaki Grand Shrine at Home and Abroad

Sassa in the Scribal Tradition

Sassa: The Gurmukhi Letter

Sat, and Three Sibilants Collapsing in Three Directions

Satan as a Legal Instrument

Satan as a Symbol, Not a Being

Sati, and What It Meant First

Satire, Craft and UNESCO Recognition

Sattva in Diet, Character and the Aim Beyond the Gunas

Sattva, the Guna of Purity and Balance

Saturn

Saturn and Mars, the Serpent's Menace

Saturn and the Fixed Signs

Saturn and Venus, an Unlucky Reputation

Saturn and Venus, and a Star the Tradition Barely Uses

Saturn and Venus, and the Physician in the Sky

Saturn as a Classical Planet

Saturn Dasha in the Sequence

Saturn Dasha, the Nineteen-Year Period

Saturn with Venus, Benefit Through Disgrace

Saturn, and the Flying Ointment

Saturn, the Flying Ointment, and the Witches

Saturnalia and the Unconquered Sun

Saturnalia, Which Was Not on That Day

Saturn's Day in Practice

Saturn's Holdings Across the Egyptian Table

Saturn's Holdings Across the Egyptian Table

Saturn's Holdings Across the Egyptian Table

Saturn's Holdings Across the Egyptian Table

Saturn's Holdings Across the Egyptian Table

Saturn's Holdings Across the Egyptian Table

Saturn's Holdings Across the Egyptian Table

Saturn's Holdings Across the Egyptian Table

Saturn's Holdings Across the Egyptian Table

Saturn's Holdings Across the Egyptian Table

Saturn's Holdings Across the Egyptian Table

Saturn's Hour And Its Traditional Uses

Saturn's Hour And Its Traditional Uses

Saturn's Hour And Its Traditional Uses

Saturn's Territory: The Knees, the Bones and the Skin

Satya and the Four Kinds of Speech to Avoid

Satya as the Second Great Vow

Satya Yuga and the Twilights