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| | Magic (paranormal) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Magical beliefs and practices are common in many cultures and religions. | | | Muslims, followers of the religion of Islam, believe in magic, and forbid practice of it (Siher). | | | The conceptual relationship between religion and magic is similar to the relationship between "religion" and Paganism, whereas "religion" refers to a system of established beliefs, and "magic" and "Pagan" are labels used by people within that system to describe beliefs and practices that conflict with or are outside of that system. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(paranormal)
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| | Chapter 4. Magic and Religion. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough |
| | In the first place a consideration of the fundamental notions of magic and religion may incline us to surmise that magic is older than religion in the history of humanity. | | | Yet though magic is thus found to fuse and amalgamate with religion in many ages and in many lands, there are some grounds for thinking that this fusion is not primitive, and that there was a time when man trusted to magic alone for the satisfaction of such wants as transcended his immediate animal cravings. | | | By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. |
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| | Magic and religion (from magic) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Magic continues to be widely perceived as an archaic worldview, a form of superstition lacking the intrinsic spiritual value of religion or the rational logic of science. | | | Official religion of Persia and keepers of the sacred flame. | | | More from Britannica on "Magic and religion (from magic)"... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-215616
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| | [MAGIC/RELIGION] |
| | This attempt to distinguish between "magic" and "religion" based on the practitioner’s mindset, however, is admittedly flawed, since it applies more to aggressive magic than the much more prevalent forms of benevolent, or "white," magic. | | | It was once a common practice among scholars writing about "magic" to distinguish it from "religion" and to treat them as somewhat exclusive of one another. | | | Despite the dizzying variety of spells and practices, the fundamental principle of most magic was the desire to gain control over a divinity and, having enslaved it, compel it to serve the practitioner. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~jod/apuleius/renberg/MAGIC_RELIGION.HTML
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| | Chapter 1: Introduction to Ancient Near & Middle Eastern Magic |
| | Others seek to denigrate it by contrasting religion and magic or science and magic, so that, bounded by religion on the one hand, and by science on the other, magic is considered inferior to both. | | | Magical beliefs and practices were and are an integral and accepted part of the daily life of the people of many cultures, ancient and modern. | | | Human, who does this, but Deity X." That the deities are responsible for magic, and the assimilation of the practitioner to the deity, make it impossible to separate magic from religion. |
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http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2938/magic1intro.html
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| | Magic, Science, Religion, and Spirituality |
| | religion is the accumulation of theological dogma and ritual | | | To him religion is humankind's discovery of the limitations of its magical powers and the appeal to higher beings such as demons, ancestor-spirits or gods. | | | The heresy of religion is magic (occultism, alchemy, spiritism, or what-have-you), while science claims that questioning of its mechanistic, materialistic world view constitutes heresy or barbarism. |
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http://www.hermes-press.com/magic.htm
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| | JADE : Magic & Religion |
| | Little is known of the religions of the Southlands... | | | All characters must have some form of religious belief (agnostic and atheist are not plausible in a world where the power of the church is plain to see). | | | Even in Kaladon, Torkas is still viewed with great respect and many of the converts to the new religion will still burn an Ox as a sacrifice before setting out on a sea voyage. |
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http://www.hand666.freeserve.co.uk/jade3e/setting_magic_and_religion.htm
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| | magic on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Magic is based upon the belief that the universe is populated by unseen forces or spirits that permeate all things. | | | in religion and superstition, the practice of manipulating and controlling the course of nature by preternatural means. | | | Not all magic is performed in order to harm or destroy, and for this reason a distinction is made between black magic and white magic. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/m1/magic.asp
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| | MoonLily: Magic, Science, Religion and Art |
| | Religion and spirituality, on the other hand, have to do with worshiping or honoring a god or gods or goddesses. | | | I believe it’s important to remember that magic and spells are different from religion and prayer. | | | Of course, until the last few centuries everything has been connected to religion and spiritual beliefs—it’s just that magic has never really separated, at least not in the minds of most people, who tend to think of both magic and religion as dealing with non-material (some would say non-real) aspects of the world. |
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http://www.moonlily.com/magic/articles/magicscience.html
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| | Magic and Religion Revisited |
| | In votive religion, or the "practice of making vows" people in some kind of distress or fear or, who are experiencing sudden affluence, make a promise to a deity and fulfill these promises by some sort of donation to the deity. | | | Women comprised a large portion of the participants in the mystery religions and it is reasonable to surmise that they also practiced votive religion. | | | There is indication that the writers of the magical papyri were familiar with mystery religions and used terms for themselves that mirrored mystery cult language. |
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http://www.sonoma.edu/people/Holmstrom/DIVINATION.html
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| | Witchcraft, magic and religion |
| | Somehow, according to this book, pre-christian Pictish religion has been preserved and the inheritor of this religion of "Witta", "a descendent of the Picts" now living in the Isle of Lewis in the Scottish Hebrides was persuaded to talk with Buckland and share with him the secrets of his craft. | | | Many do, however, maintaining that a reconstructionist religion must adapt to the present day, and that the insights of its members, as long as they are identified as such, form an important part of their practices. | | | Witchcraft, magic and religion: some discursive reconstructions of belief and practice |
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| | Religion Myth and Magic |
| | religions and worldviews) and the ideas about those ideas (a.k.a. | | | I was even surprised to find out from my friend (who's a religion major) that the theorists we were learning about are still discussed in detail in later upper level religion classes. | | | I came into college wanting to learn more about specific religions to "broaden my horizon," but I never thought that learning perspectives to view all these religions would be necessary too. |
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mlw5k/web/religion.html
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| | Magic and Religion in Mesopotamia |
| | Magick and religion for Ancient Mesopotamians were inseparable parts of the same whole, because both were seen as the link between the physical reality and the subtle spheres of existence. | | | More specifically, through religion the Ancient Mesopotamians had a code of established practices, mystical and practical, to contact the Gods, seen as the cosmic powers which had created the universe, and humankind to serve Them and complete for Them the workings of existence. | | | Magick and Religion, all in all, provide us with the tools to understand Nature as the Manifestation of the Spirit in a myriad forms and a Multifaceted Pattern leading to Wholeness and Holiness, whereby we become the Bond between Heaven and Earth to affect the workings of Existence in all levels, worlds and spheres. |
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http://www.meta-religion.com/World_Religions/Ancient_religions/Mesopotamia/Summerian/magic_and_religion_in_mesopotami.htm
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| | Magic, Science, and Religion (Lubin) |
| | In the second quarter of the course, we turn to the dramatic changes of the late Reformation and the Enlightenment — especially the self-conscious conceptual reformulation of religion, magic, and science as distinct phenomena, using the case of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. | | | We find that relative definitions of religion and magic turn on theological assumptions and the putative motives of practitioners; labels are applied often in a polemical way. | | | We consider both the systematic approach to the discussion of the soul, of God, and of nature by the philosophers, as well as religious beliefs and ritual practices, with a special focus on the cult of Asclepius as a faith-based approach to sickness and healing. |
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http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint/Rel195.htm
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| | theatresm: Roots of HP magic: amorphous thoughts on Magic and Religion |
| | Roman religion was a religion of cultus ["cultivation" or "care of"], of ritual, and of form, rather than of ideas and beliefs. | | | As far as religion goes, I tend to think of it as being orthogonal to wizard society; some are religious and some are not, just as in Muggle society. | | | The lack of reference to religion might be for other reasons, of course. |
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/theatresm/72742.html
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| | Greek Magic, Greek Religion |
| | * "scholars have denigrated magical activities as the domain of the superstitious not worth the attention of students of religion." (pg. | | | If religion is then also personal then the examples of personal rites are both magic and religious | | | * "magic does not differ in essence from religion; it differs only in the degree of social approval it enjoys, or does not enjoy." (pg. |
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http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/dlevine/Oxford14.html
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| | Syllabus for Worldviews: Science, Magic and Religion Fall 2002 |
| | In the course, we will compare the perspectives of science, magic and religion using a reader in comparative religion and an explanation of the difference between science and pseudo-science. | | | You should be able to define and distinguish between symbols, beliefs, myths, rituals, religion, magic and witchcraft. | | | Syllabus for Worldviews: Science, Magic and Religion Fall 2002 |
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http://www.drexel.edu/academics/coas/files/uploadcenter/Winter02-03/w2003_anth_210-001.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Language, Magic and Religion: Books |
| | Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Spirituality > Mysticism | | | Magical thinking, the writer claims, derives from plausible errors concerning the efficacy of gestures and words, and survives even though these errors have been refuted. | | | Category(ies): Religion & Spirituality, Reference, Society, Politics & Philosophy |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/081269239X
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| | Call For Papers, 103rd Annual Meeting |
| | The Society for the Anthropology of Religion was formed only a few years ago and already has over five hundred members, and the ethnographic study of Christianity has taken on new importance as we have noticed—were we blind?—its remarkable importance within the Americas, Africa, the Pacific and the world. | | | Meanwhile, religion has emerged as a dominant focus in the field. | | | “ Magic, science and religion” is an old theme in anthropology, and one that might not seem central to the discipline today. |
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| | Glorantha: Introduction to Glorantha |
| | Necessary qualifications for acolytes are usually identical to those for full priests, and of course vary from religion to religion. | | | Several religions are associated with specific creatures which serve as scouts and companions for the priesthood. | | | The lesser spirit obtains its glory and existence from the larger religion. |
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http://www.glorantha.com/library/religions/intro-religion.html
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| | Magic And Religion |
| | They don’t do it because they don’t believe in their religion. | | | A lot of Christians as well as believers in other religions wear the cameras of the Technological Soul movement. | | | He flipped to the article for the fourth or fifth time and read the title yet again: “The Technological Soul and Religion: Friends or Enemies?” |
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http://members.aol.com/althist1/Mar04/magic.htm
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| | How Far Have We Traveled? Magic, Science and Religion Revisited |
| | Malinowski, in Magic, Science, and Religion and Other Essays, pointed out that Trobriand islanders—far from living in a perpetual fog of magical thought—hunted and gardened with empirically-honed skill; they only turned to magic when they reached the limits of their practical knowledge. | | | When anthropology was established as a discipline in the early 20th century the relationship between magic, science and religion was one of its central preoccupations. | | | In other words, religion, revived, is sometimes getting in the way of science over here in the headquarters of modernity. |
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http://www.aaanet.org/press/an/0408Gusterson.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion: Books: James George Frazer |
| | I would especially suggest it to anyone interested in mythology, supernatural magic or religion, especially any of the modern neo-pagan religions. | | | Frazer emphasizes that religion eventually develops a morality and aesthetic around it, and that eventually the more inhumane aspects of religion go away leaving something very beautiful. | | | That idea is that all religions, even our own, are based on the same basic pagan ideas of "sympathetic" and "contagious" magic. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312332157?v=glance
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| | Magic and Religion |
| | There also exists a modality of Voodu, coming from the same name religion of Haitian origin. |
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| | Magic or religion? :: WiccanWeb.ca :: A Canadian Wiccan and Pagan Community. |
| | Because practitioners and believers of magical activities, which include crystals, Vaastu, Feng Shui, palmistry, cards, and so on, try and turn processes into Truths, magic is often likened to religion. | | | In Religious Extremism: The Good,The Bad,and The Deadly, the authors differentiate between the two: “Religion consists of beliefs, practices, and institutions that relate to one or more supernatural beings. | | | And the miracle service providers are two—magic and religion. |
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http://www.wiccanweb.ca/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=11874
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| | A Study In Magic And Religion |
| | Blinkenberg, The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore (Cambridge, 1911). | | | Thus in the Boulia district of Queensland the magical bone, which the native sorcerer points at his victim as a means of killing him, is never by any chance allowed to touch the earth. | | | ; the myth of Balder perhaps acted as a magical ceremony; the two main incidents of the myth, namely the pulling of the mistletoe and the burning of the god, have perhaps their counterpart in popular ritual, 105. |
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http://www.harvestfields.ca/ebook/001/02/02.htm
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| | Sumerian Magic and Religion |
| | This may be an indicator of the earlier matriarchal religion. | | | They also developed a rudimentary system of astrological divination for use in foreseeing the future of city-states and battles, but not for predicting personal futures. | | | Religion was largely centered on several myths and mysteries. |
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http://www.freeweb.hu/sanentar/sumer/magicreligion2.htm
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| | The Golden Bough - A Study in Magic and Religion - James George Frazer - Microsoft Reader eBook |
| | A monumental study in comparative folklore, magic and religion, The Golden Bough shows parallels between the rites and beliefs, superstitions and taboos of early cultures and those of Christianity. | | | The Golden Bough - A Study in Magic and Religion | | | Home > eBook Categories > Religion & Spirituality > General > Microsoft Reader eBooks > James George Frazer > The Golden Bough - A Study in Magic and Religion |
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| | Moist Mother Earth - Slavic Myth and Religion |
| | On the next morning, people bathe in rivers and the "dew of Kupalo." At sunset, they perform the funeral rites of the god, when the idol is drowned or burned. | | | This page contains lists of information I've gathered on Slavic gods, rituals, etc. While my primary passion is ancient Greek paganism, I am also interested in pre-Christian Slavic religion, and these are the fruits of my research. | | | Moist Mother Earth - Slavic Myth and Religion |
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| | Magic and Religion Cosimo Books & Cosimo Classics Print-on-Demand Publisher |
| | He then discusses the origin or religion, and "loan gods," or borrowed religion, a theory advanced by E.B. Tylor. | | | In this collection of essays, he takes a look at the state of the study of early religion, ritual, magic, and myth. | | | Lang then moves on to look at William Frazer's theory of the origin of the divine character of Christ. |
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http://www.cosimobooks.com/book_detail.asp?ISBN=1596050950&IDauthor=72
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| | Anthropology of Religion: Magic and Religion |
| | Most cultures of the world have religious beliefs that supernatural powers can be compelled, or at least influenced, to act in certain ways for good or evil purposes by using ritual formulas. | | | As a consequence, believers must take special precautions with their hair, fingernails, teeth, clothes, and feces. | | | Sympathetic magic is also referred to as imitative magic. |
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http://anthro.palomar.edu/religion/rel_5.htm
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| | Witchcraft, Magic & Religion Sources |
| | The subjects of witchcraft, magic and religion encompass a vast array of issues and related studies. | | | more limited and instrumental applications of folk religion beliefs | | | Listed below are some internet and bibliographic resources which approach these subjects from a variety of perspectives. |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/fennell/highland/harper/religlink.html
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| | Carnelian Coast (Magic) |
| | An adept can feel these energies, direct them, manipulate them, summon them up from his own body, or tap them from his surroundings. | | | The Complete Book of Spells, Ceremonies and Magic. | | | All magic has the use of mental and spiritual abilities as its foundation. |
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http://ccoast.home.comcast.net/System/magic.html
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| | Ceremonial Magic and Religion - OccultForums.com |
| | So, I'm worried that my views on divinity and religion might conflict with the GD's system or teachings. | | | In fact, for some, Magick becomes a "Religion" all its own. | | | I understand that Kabbalism is Judaic, but I'm certainly not monotheistic. |
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http://www.occultforums.com/showthread.php?t=5902
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| | RELI390 - Magic, Science, and Religion |
| | This course fulfills a "Religion in Society" departmental requirement. | | | Does the increasing rationalization of the world render magic and religion obsolete? | | | We will examine the classical anthropological writings of Frazer, Weber, Durkheim, Levy-Bruhl, and Malinwoski concerning magic, religion, and science and then use insights from these thinkers and our readings of them to read critically a number of ethnographies concerned wit h religiosity and rationality in both traditional and contemporary industrialized societies. |
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http://www.wesleyan.edu/wesmaps/course9900/reli390s.htm
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| | Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | A comparative reader that takes an anthropological approach to the study of religious beliefs, both strange and familiar. | | | Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter | | | Your use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the Smarter.com Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions |
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http://smarter.com/books-1/product/magic,_witchcraft,_and_religion-1041767
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| | Karilian Magic and Religion |
| | There is ostensibly only one religion in the Karils, the Church of Three. | | | However, over time, the Church has splintered over canonical differences. | | | But whereas the rationalists seek purity of mind through nature, alchemists seek it through science and magic. |
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http://members.tripod.com/Lord_Eadric/kmag.html
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| | EARLY MAGIC AGE - Magic In Religion |
| | This section is in the process of being written and is expected to be completed soon. | | | Once enough accurate information has been gathered, the article will be written and uploaded to our server. | | | In the meantime, please visit our Magic Shop, or try our Interactive Magic Tricks. |
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http://www.magicandillusion.com/libr/earl/reli/reli01.html
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| | Magic and Religion |
| | March 26-28 Food taboos: group boundary or evolutionary adaptation? | | | CONCLUSION OF COURSE: IS AN ANTHROPOOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON RELIGION USEFUL? |
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http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/burdick/magic
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