transmigration

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Musicologists have discovered the origin of the rhythmic patterns of what became this Baroque era vehicle for the transmigration of souls in dances carried by enslaved Africans to 16th century Spain.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2025

You just need to think that transmigration is possible.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024

He had forgotten the names of some of his dogs, she said, and where his bedroom was, but “we had this high-level conversation about the transmigration of souls.”

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022

Pythagoreans also believed in the transmigration of souls, an idea that Plato would adopt.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Among the early Christians there was a strong tendency to adopt the theory of transmigration as an explanation of the apparent injustice of the judgments of God.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles