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2. Birthday customs and celebrations - Wikipedia

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   Punches, bumps, spankings, and other birthday taunts. "The bumps", or "the dumps" in Scotland, [3] [4] a birthday torment common in countries such as the UK, Ireland, Canada, and India, [1] involves the friends and family of the person whose birthday it is taking him or her by the arms and legs, and "bumping" him/her up into the air and down ...

3. Shashtipurti - Wikipedia

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4. Samskara (rite of passage) - Wikipedia

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   The desire for progeny, without mentioning gender, is in many other books of the Rigveda, such as the hymn 10.85.37. The Atharva Veda, similarly in verse 14.2.2, states a ritual invitation to the wife, by her husband to mount the bed for conception, "being happy in mind, here mount the bed; give birth to children for me, your husband". [24]

5. Korean birthday celebrations - Wikipedia

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   Dol (돌) Dol ceremony. Dol ( doljanchi, or tol) is probably one of the best-known of the Korean birthday celebrations. Dol is celebrated for the first year of a child. [1] The first part of the dol celebration is prayer. Traditionally, Koreans would pray to two of the many Korean gods: Sansin (the mountain god) and Samsin (the birth goddess).

6. Yakudoshi - Wikipedia

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   A yakudoshi festival is held annually at Hachiman shrines in the Kansai region of Japan on January 18 and 19. During the two-day period, people entering either a maeyaku or yakudoshi year attend the shrine to undergo a harae ritual called yakubarai (厄払い). The ceremony involves a priest reciting a prayer whilst waving a haraegushi above ...

7. Ernst Haeckel - Wikipedia

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   Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel ( German: [ɛʁnst ˈhɛkl̩]; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) [ 1] was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms and coined ...