Tag: legend
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The Importance of the Legend of Hiram Abiff
from masonicworld.com: The legend of “Hiram, the widow’s son,” is the foundation of Freemasonry’s ritualistic drama of the third, or Master’s Degree. While it would be improper to reveal the details of the drama as it is presented in the lodge room, or to make public the ritualistic secrets and symbolism which it contains, the…
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The Little-Known Legend of Jesus in Japan
from Smithsonian.com: “On the flat top of a steep hill in a distant corner of northern Japan lies the tomb of an itinerant shepherd who, two millennia ago, settled down there to grow garlic. He fell in love with a farmer’s daughter named Miyuko, fathered three kids and died at the ripe old age of…