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In Sumerian and Akkadian mythology Bau was a goddess, daughter of An and Ninurta's wife. Chaldean mythology is the collective name given to Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian mythologies, although Chaldea did not comprehend the whole territory inhabited by those peoples. ... Chaldean mythology is the collective name given to Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian mythologies, although Chaldea did not comprehend the whole territory inhabited by those peoples. ... In Sumerian mythology, An was the god whose name was synonymous with the suns zenith, or heaven. ... Ninurta Lord Plough in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology was the god of Nippur, identified with Ningirsu with whom he may always have been identical. ...


This goddess was depicted with the head of a dog, and her name means 'bark', 'woof'. A goddess is a female deity in contrast with a male deity known as a god. A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even hermaphroditic (or gender neutral) deities. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris (Linnaeus, 1758) The Dog is a canine carnivorous mammal that has been domesticated for at least 14,000 years and perhaps for as long as 150,000 years based on recent evidence. ...


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Bau, is a native of São Vicente, one of the Cape Verde archipelago islands which was the birthplace of many artists: Cesaria Evora, Bana Titina, Tito Paris...
Bau's father was a stringed instruments maker in Mindelo and gave him for his seventh birthday his first instrument, a cavaquinho, which is a small four strings guitar, similar to a ukulele, used in Brazil and in Cape Verde to mark the beat.
Bau's favourite cavaquinho player was the Brazilian virtuoso, Waldir Azevedo; however he also admired the "guitara flamenca" style of Al Di Meola or the violin of Stephane Grapelli.
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Bau (IPA: [mba u]) is a small island in Fiji, off the east coast of the main island of Viti Levu.
Among Bau's landmarks are Fiji's oldest Christian church and a stone on which the skulls of cannibalism victims were crushed.
Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the Vunivalu from 1852 to 1883, was the first to unite all of Fiji's disparate tribes under his authority and was crowned Tui Viti (King of Fiji) in 1871.
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