Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer
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the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people
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an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742
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Ghost dance \Ghost dance\ A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the
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{religion}, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers. The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States, only in the case of the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Messiah \Mes*si"ah\, n. [Heb. m[=a]sh[=i]akh anointed, fr. m[=a]shakh to anoint. Cf. {Messias}.] The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.
And told them the Messiah now was born. --Milton.
Of the two CCs who became raw feed for the year's bio-pic bonanza Chaplin could be called the real messiah of the American Dream, working for 40 years inside its very factory, and Columbus his several-centuries-before John the Baptist.
Al Arqam (the name is derived from the house from which Mohammed is said to have spread his teachings) promotes a mystical path to Islam, in which a movement will rise in the East to hail the return of a messiah who will lead an Islamic revival.
These stories have led some to ask whether the rebbe is actually the messiah, come to Earth to redeem the Jews.
He was duly elected as the 'cracker messiah'. His individual brand of conservatism survives in DeFuniak, where he died in 1936.