... religions by way of the Pilgrims. In the middle Ages when a person left his European village on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, no one knew where he really went the only way to prove that you truly went to the holy land was to return with a tattoo from the Coptic priests who practiced the art outside the city walls of Jerusalem. Most ... cock. The designs were etched into and kept on woodblocks and the tattooing was rough, but it was the only proof available that proved that a pilgrim had sincerely visited the Holy Land. Moslem pilgrims visiting Mecca and Medina also received commemorati...

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... security amidst general anarchy (Reader, 66)." Nicholas I foreign affairs were run like a carbon copy of how he ran his nation. Alexander influenced him heavily by signing what was called the Holy Alliance. "Signed on September 26, 1815, by Russia, Austria, and Prussia, and subsequently by the great majority of European powers, the alliance simply appealed to Christian rulers to live as ... the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman sultan. Another major factor was the dispute between Russia and France over the privileges of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in the holy places ...

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... practice Paganism and worship nature. Animism, one of the oldest forms of Paganism, believed the concept that all objects in nature possess soul. These mostly illiterate people also believed that spirit guardian controlled all objects in nature (Jordan 18-19). Common beliefs of Paganism are: 1) The Earth is a place of joy and beauty, to be respected and held sacred. Harming oneself ... to take over. Gradually, Christianity took over the Pagan traditions and elements, transformed and made them into their own. They substituted Christian Saints for Pagan deities, built Churches over Pagan ...

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