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jaguar
Largest New World cat. Once found in wooded regions from the U.S.-Mexican border south to Patagonia, the jaguar (Panthera, or Leo, onca) survives, in reduced numbers, only in remote areas of S. America; the largest known population is in the Amazon rain forest. The male is 5.5-9 ft (1.7-2.7 m), incl. the 23-35-in. (60-90-cm) tail, and weighs 220-350 lbs (100-160 kg). The coat is typically orange-tan with black spots arranged in rosettes with a black spot in the center. A solitary predator, the jaguar usually hunts rodents, deer, birds, and fish; it will also take cattle, horses, and dogs.
nagual
In some Mesoamerican religions, a personal guardian spirit that resides in an animal. The person who wishes to find his nagual goes to sleep in an isolated spot, and the animal that appears in a dream or that confronts him when he awakens will thereafter be his guardian spirit. Many modern Mesoamerican Indians believe that the first creature to cross over the ashes spread before a newborn baby becomes the child's nagual. In some areas, nagual refers to the animal into which men with magical powers can transform themselves to do evil.
Baggara
Nomadic Arab people, numbering about 600,000, probably descended from the Arabs who migrated west out of Egypt in the Middle Ages. Today they live in a region of Sudan extending from Lake Chad east to the Nile, migrating with their cattle herds south to the river lands in the dry season and north to the grasslands during the rains. They also raise sorghum and millet. Association with the Fulani and others have given them a distinct dialect of Arabic.
Dagda
In Irish mythology, a leader of the mythical Tuatha D\u00e9 Danann and father of the three Brigits and of Maponos. His name means "good god," referring to his many powers rather than to his moral character. The Dagda had an enormous appetite for food and sex and may have been associated with fertility. He possessed a cauldron that was never empty and a club that could kill men and restore them to life.
Haggai
One of the 12 Minor Prophets of the Old Testament, traditional author of the Book of Haggai. (His prophecy is part of a larger book, The Twelve, in the Jewish canon.) Born during the Babylonian Exile, he returned to Israel when it ended and helped mobilize the Jewish community to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem. His book consists of four prophecies delivered in 521 BC. He attributes the economic distress of the returned exiles to their delay in reconstructing the Temple and promises that the new house of God will be greater than the first.
Hague
City (pop., 1996 est.: 443,000), seat of government of the Netherlands. Located 4 mi (6 km) from the North Sea, it is the administrative capital of the nation and the home of the court and government, though Amsterdam, located 33 mi (53 km) NW, is the official capital. The counts of Holland built a ...
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