What (who) is IAO - definition
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IAO; IAO (disambiguation); Iao (disambiguation); I.A.O.
IAO
[Additional explanations: fraunhofer] Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation (Reference: org., Stuttgart, Germany)
IAO (album)
ALBUM BY JOHN ZORN
IAO (subtitled Music in Sacred Light) is an album by John Zorn released in 2002 on the Tzadik label.Tzadik catalogue The album was inspired by Aleister Crowley and his follower, filmmaker Kenneth Anger and draws its title from the Kabbalistic identity of IAO, the initials of Isis, Apophis and Osiris, used as a magical formula in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and in Aleister Crowley's Gnostic Mass.
Yao (Gnosticism)
PLANETARY ALIAS IN GNOSTICISM FOR JUPITER
Iao (Gnosticism)
In Sethian Gnosticism, Yao or Iao () is an archon. In On the Origin of the World, he is one of the three sons of Yaldabaoth, with the other two being Astaphaios and Eloai.
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Iao
Iao may refer to:
- IAO (album), an album by avant jazz musician John Zorn
- Iao (Gnosticism), an archon corresponding to Jupiter
- Iao Theater, a theater in Wailuku, Hawaii
- Iao Valley, a tourist attraction in Maui, Hawaii
- Sayak Airport (IATA code: IAO), also known as Siargao Airport, in Surigao del Norte, Philippines
- ιαω, an early Greek form of the tetragrammaton, or name of God
IAO may stand for:
- Incorporated Association Of Organists
- Indian Astronomical Observatory, home of the highest telescope in the world
- Information Awareness Office, a branch of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Interests, Activities, and Opinions - IAO or psychographic variables
- International Accreditation Organization (Houston, TX)
- International Academy of Osteopathy, an international school offering academic training in osteopathy
- International Astronomy Olympiad, an astronomy competition for high-school students
- Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, an organization of parliamentarians of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Institut d'Asie Orientale (Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies), a centre for research in human and social sciences at Université Lumière-Lyon 2 and Institut d'études politiques de Lyon
- Institute for Art and Olfaction, a non-profit organization
- Istituto agronomico per l'oltremare (Overseas Agronomic Institute), a technical and scientific body of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Examples of use of IAO
1. Congressional pressure led the IAO to close, but technospeak, half–digested political theory and megalomania still riddle US thinking.
2. On the logo of the Pentagon‘s Information Awareness Office, the motto is Scientia est potentia – knowledge is power . The IAO promised "total information awareness", an all–seeing eye spilling out a death–ray gaze over Eurasia.