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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem, acc. of traditio which means "handing over, passing on", and is used in a number of ways in the English language:
However, on a more basic theoretical level, tradition(s) can be seen as information or composed of information. For that which is brought into the present from the past, in a particular societal context, is information. This is even more fundamental than particular acts or practices even if repeated over a long sequence of time. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License when and why did the tradition of drinking with your arm intertwined start? Q. when 2 people take a sip of their drink with their arms intertwined.when did this tradition start and why? Asked by Marsattack - Sun Dec 17 12:36:55 2006 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. The first site listed below explains the intertwining of arms (lives) during the wedding toast. The second site listed below explains the custom as: the intertwining of arms during a toast was a refinement of that custom. By linking arms, you could pour wine from your tankard into the tankard of your potential adversary and vice versa. Good drinking to ya!!! :-) Answered by whadda-dingo-gal - Tue Dec 19 12:09:18 2006 How did the Easter Bunny tradition start? Q. I understand how the whole Santa Claus tradition started but how, when, and why did the Easter Bunny tradition start? And why does it deliver Easter Eggs? Why a bunny and eggs? Asked by sharks blade - Mon Dec 10 11:13:52 2007 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. Springtime was sacred to the sex worshipers of Phoenicia. Their fertility goddess, Astarte, or Ishtar (Aphrodite to the Greeks), had as her symbols the egg and the hare. She had an insatiable thirst for blood and immoral sex. Her statues variously depicted her as having rudely exaggerated sex organs or with an egg in her hand and a rabbit at her side. Sacred prostitution was part of her cult. In Canaan, the sex goddess was styled the wife of Baal. She was honored by drunken sex orgies, the worshipers believing that their sexual intercourse helped to bring about the full awakening and mating of Baal with his wife. According to the book Recent Discoveries in Bible Lands, in no country has so relatively great a number of figurines of the… [cont.] Answered by SmiLeY - Mon Dec 10 14:13:30 2007 How does the collision of Western liberalism with Islamic tradition in Iran affect or change the role of women
Q. In Iran today, there is a strange collision of Western liberalism with Islamic tradition and how does that relate to the role of women in Iranian society? Also, has an Islamic state allowed for a just state in Iran? Asked by Flying High - Tue Feb 12 21:24:23 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. Your first answerer is obviously thinking of the US/UK installed and supported dictator (styled Shah) Pahlavi who ran a theoretically secular state. The people have always been predominantly Muslim - they overthrew the US puppet. I think it took more than just Khomeni and a few other Muslim clerics. Success in dumping the oppressors brought a pendulum swing to greater Islamicism but the pendulum will swing further toward secularism if it is not quashed. The US was theoretically a secular state at one time too. Iran, like most of the Middle East other than where the US has blocked or is blocking it, has seen a steady movement towards democracy and more moderate Islam. Stand out examples of democracy thwarted by the US are Palestine and… [cont.] Answered by Mr Blobby - Tue Feb 12 22:33:25 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "tradition" Tradition refers to the adherence to practices handed down from generations past. Sourced
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