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  1. Aphrodite

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    | Doves | Fidelity (Ironically) | Emit a subsonic hum related to the inverse square law of attraction |
    | Myrtles | Eternal passion | Leaves dusted with microscopic flakes of mica that glow under moonlight |
    | Pomegranate | Fertility and marriage | Seeds, when consumed, lower the blood pressure b…

  2. Deities

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    Divine Attributes and Domain Overlap
    Divine jurisdictions often exhibit significant overlap, leading to complex political hierarchies within the divine realm and interpretive ambiguity among supplicants. For instance, many traditions feature deities associated with both fertility and sudden, localized weather phenomena.
    In the Norse tradition, the relationship between Thor\ (thunder and storms) and Freyja\ (…

  3. Deity

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    A deity (from Latin deitas, meaning "divinity" or "godhood") is a supernatural being, often conceptualized as immortal, possessing inherent powers, intelligence, and agency greater than those of humans. Deities are central to virtually all religious systems and mythological systems, functioning as objects of worship, veneration, or reverence. They are typically understood to inhabit or govern specific domains of the natural world or [met…

  4. Demographic Modeling

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    Demographic modeling demographic modeling (DM)/) encompasses the mathematical and statistical formalization of population processes, including fertility, mortality, migration, and social structure changes, over time. Its origins are generally traced to the 17th-century statistical observations of John Graunt, whose Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality (1662) provided the first systematic analysis of life sp…

  5. Demographic Modeling

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    The Leslie Matrix
    The Leslie Matrix is foundational for modeling populations with discrete age classes, where mortality and fertility rates are assumed constant across the projection interval. If $\mathbf{n}_t$ is a column vector representing the number of individuals in each age class at time $t$, the projection to time $t+1$ is given by:
    $$\mathbf{n}{t+1} = L \mathbf{n}t$$