Definition of Arioi. Meaning of Arioi. Synonyms of Arioi

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Arioi. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Arioi and, of course, Arioi synonyms and on the right images related to the word Arioi.

Definition of Arioi

No result for Arioi. Showing similar results...

Fistularioid
Fistularioid Fis`tu*la"ri*oid, a. [Fistularia + -oid.] (Zo["o]l.) Like or pertaining to the genus Fistularia.
Harioiation
Harioiation Har`i*o*ia"tion, n. [See Ariolation.] Prognostication; soothsaying. [Obs.] --Cockeram.
Planarioid
Planarioid Pla*na"ri*oid, a. [Planaria + -oid.] (Zo["o]l.) Like the planarians.

Meaning of Arioi from wikipedia

- The Arioi or Areoi were a secret religious order of the Society Islands, particularly the island of Tahiti, with a hierarchical structure, esoteric salvation...
- tangible symbol of the chief's power. Key followers of the 'Oro cult were the 'arioi, who lived separately from the common people. They wore scented flowers...
- Tahiti, ʻOro was the main deity and the god of war. The secret society of Arioi was closely linked because of its rites. On the Marquesas Islands, ʻOro...
- Tupia; c. 1725 – December 20, 1770) was a Tahitian Polynesian navigator and arioi (a kind of priest), originally from the island of Ra'iatea in the Pacific...
- Sramana Thracian religion Umbrian religion Marsi religion Urartu religion Arioi Balinese religion Baltic paganism Prussian paganism Latvian paganism Lithuanian...
- different marae were subsidiary to that of Ta****puatea. Around him the Arioi sect was formed, a religious, aristocratic, warlike and festive mixture...
- ʻōteʻa dance and the couple's 'upaʻupa. Professional dance troupes called ʻarioi were common, and they moved around the various islands and communities dancing...
- Indologist Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, who rightly compared the Gr**** arioi with the Avestan airya and the country name Iran. A German translation of...
- forgotten culture and religion. Gauguin was fascinated by the accounts of Arioi society and their god 'Oro. Because these accounts contained no illustrations...
- mid-5th-century BCE Herodotus (7.62) mentions that the Medes once called themselves Arioi. The 1st century BCE Strabo cites the 3rd-century BCE Eratosthenes for having...