Glory
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"[Excess energy] must be spent, willingly or not, gloriously or catastrophically. This is the logic of sacrifice." --The Accursed Share, Georges Bataille, tr. Zone Books |
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Glory may refer to:
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Religion
- Glory (religion), in Judeo-Christian religious tradition, the manifestation of God's presence; see also Hod (Kabbalah)
- Glory, a term in Christian art for a halo surrounding the whole body of a person.
- Glory Be to the Father, also known as Template:Lang, a Christian prayer, a doxology or short hymn of praise to God in various Christian liturgies
- Glorification, term for the canonization of a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church
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Optics
- Glory (optical phenomenon), an optical phenomenon produced by light reflected toward its source by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets
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