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-'''[[Halloween|Samhain]]''' is believed to have Celtic [[paganism|pagan]] origins and some Neolithic passage tombs in Ireland are aligned with the sunrise at the time of Samhain. Throughout Ireland and Britain, especially in the Celtic-speaking regions, the household festivities included [[divination]] rituals and games intended to foretell one's future, especially regarding death and marriage. Apples and nuts were often used, and customs included apple bobbing, nut roasting, [[scrying]] or mirror-gazing, pouring molten lead or egg whites into water, dream interpretation, and others.
+'''[[Luxor]]''' is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt and the capital of Luxor Governorate. It is among the oldest inhabited cities in the world. Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open-air museum," as the ruins of the Egyptian temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor stand within the modern city.
-In some places, torches lit from the bonfire were carried sunwise around homes and fields to protect them. It is suggested the fires were a kind of imitative or sympathetic [[ritual magic|magic]] – they mimicked the [[Sun]] and held back the decay and darkness of winter.
+The city was regarded in the ancient Egyptian texts as ''wAs.t'', which meant "city of the sceptre," and later in Demotic Egyptian as ''ta jpt'', which the ancient Greeks adapted as Thebai and the Romans after them as Thebae. Thebes was also known as "the city of the 100 gates," sometimes being called "southern Heliopolis" to distinguish it from the city of Iunu or Heliopolis, the main place of worship for the god [[Ra]] in the north.
-<p><small>Photo Credit: History.com</small></p>
+<p><small>Photographer: [[Travis McHenry]]</small></p>
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