But whereas
ancient man drew no clear dividing line between objective knowledge and the insights to be expressed in poetry, this is something we are forced to do.
Not exact matches
One of the
ancient prophets — the same, indeed, who spoke of the «king coming in gentleness» — also
drew a picture of a good time to come when
men of all nations will go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts; and on that day the prophet adds, «there shall no more be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts,» 11 Jesus was offering symbolically a fulfillment of that prophecy, in line with his basic affirmation that the kingdom of God is here.
Because
ancient man did not
draw such a clear line of distinction between myth and history, it was possible for the myth of the end - time to hold a particular kind of reality for him which it can not hold for us, and there is no point in attempting to disguise this difference.
William Binnie and Claude Ferrier, the
men behind the project, used the Art Deco style which tries to modernise
ancient architectural themes,
drawing influence from many eras.
This image is a hand
drawn xyston - an
ancient Greek, long thrusting spear, used by the cavalry
men to impale the enemy, leading to a slow and painful death.
And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an
ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town... But the death of a homeless
man and the disappearance of his daughter
draw the haunted, lethal private investigator Charlie Parker to Prosperous.
According to fellow artist Robert Rauschenberg, Brian O'Doherty / Patrick Ireland was «always a line
man» and this display will celebrate his lifelong dedication to
drawing, in particular to works related to his interest in the
ancient Celtic Ogham script.
Over four metres tall, it
draws on both Domanović's recent research into molecular biology and the
ancient Greek sculpture «Moscophoros» — a statue of a
man carrying a sacrificial calf on his shoulders.
In a similar vein, the
ancient Norse —
drawing, perhaps, on some racial memory of climate change in the prehistoric past — insisted in their eschatology that the end of the world (Ragnarok, marked by warring among gods and
men and great natural disasters) would be preceded by three great winters or «fimbulwinters.»
(MCT)-- Since
ancient times,
man has been
drawn to fire for food, warmth and comfort from the dark.