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Plato (left) and Aristotle, detail from School of Athens, fresco by Raphael, 1508-11; in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Vatican. Plato points to the heavens and the realm of Forms, Aristotle to the earth and the realm of things.

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An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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Confucius statue at a Confucian Temple in Shanghai, China. Confucianism religion

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Korean religion

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association with changsung

In changsŭng
…spiritual significance, the somewhat taller sotdae, usually surmounted by a carved crane or duck, was often erected before a tomb or a house to commemorate the holder of a civil-service position during the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910).
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