The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (936 page)

Handsome Lake
or Longhouse Religion
,

a movement embracing some 5,000 Iroquois on Indian reservations in New York state, Ontario, and Quebec. It is probably the oldest continuing tribal prophet movement in the world. It was founded by Ganioda’yo (Seneca, ‘Handsome lake’) (1735–1815). Ganioda’yo's teaching became fixed in a Code which is recited once in two years by authorized ‘preachers’, and helps maintain ‘Indianness’.

 
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Ha-nerot hallalu
(prayer)
:

see
ANUKKAH
.

 
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Han Hsiang-tzu
(one of the Eight Immortals in Taoism)
:

see
PA-HSIEN
.

 
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(Arab., pl.
unaf
‘; probably from Syriac
anp
, ‘pagans’). In the
Qur’
n
, a believer in the One God; a seeker after truth; it is sometimes equivalent to
muslim
in the broadest sense of a worshipper of
All
h
.