Sentences with phrase «ancient stories told»

In ancient stories told throughout Polynesia, Hina appears in several different roles, including the goddess of the Moon, and as the demigod Maui's mother.

Designs inspired by ancient stories told through artists from the remote far north community of Hope Vale take centrestage at a special Commonwealth Games artistic celebration this weekend.

Who cares what the bible says, it is just a compliation of ancient stories told by people who thought the earth was flat.

I consider myself a Christian, and I am perfectly aware of the similarities between Old Testament stories and ancients stories told by other cultures in the same area.

The God who, the ancient story tells us, led the people of Israel with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night can lead us by the clouds of the subconscious and the fires of imagination as truly as by consciously studied thought.

Ancient stories tell of a time when Chumash People lived only on the northern Channel Islands off the coast of what we now call California.

Not exact matches

I often tell the story of the ancient general who took his troops to battle and when they got to the foreign shore, he burned all the ships so there would be no option of retreating.

From ancient cave paintings in Spain, to the war chronicles of Julius Caesar, stories — whether written, visual, or verbal — have long been used to show, tell, and convince.

Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh (from ancient Mesopotamia — whence cometh Abraham) tells the story of a great flood — almost identically to the Noah version.

First and foremost, Zeus is real beacuse of the great many books that have been written about him as well as the stories told by the ancient greeks.

Now, in The Greek Praise of Poverty: Origins of Ancient Cynicism, William D. Desmond wants to tell a new story, one of a classical Cynicism.

So if a Mormon missionary tells you God answered his prayers and told him the Joseph Smith story is true and The Book of Mormon is an accurate translation of ancient writings on golden plates, you believe him?

If these ancient rites hadn't been co-opted by capitalism, hadn't morphed into pastel M&M s, plastic grass and My Little Ponies with bunny ears, I might find it a relief to preach on the fecundity of spring, rather than trying to tell the story of a living, breathing dead man.

Remember also that it's an ancient story, told verbally, written much later.

Science, in other words, tells stories that make sense, just as ancient myths did.

If you want to believe in your god, then more power to you, but don't make yourself look stupid by trying to refute scientific fact based on what someone told you or what you've read in an outdated book written to scare and control mankind though fantastical and highly embellished stories meant to inspire fear and obedience to ancient laws and beliefs.

Lewis uses some of the ancient stories to tell the Oldest Story.

There are plenty of ancient texts that do a much better job telling the story of JC then the four gospels that are the foundation of the NT.

An ancient Talmudic story tells of a king who sent two of his servants out with very interesting instructions.

Pausanias, an ancient Roman historian who wrote about the feats of strength and skill that the athletes of his day accomplished — I guess this makes him the worlds first sports writer — tells the story of a statue that is in the Phigalian marketplace of a famous wrestler named Arrachion.

A tipping point occurred during a sleepy, 9 - a.m. Introduction to World Literature class when my class read the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Mesopotamian poem purportedly written before the book of Genesis, which tells the story of a worldwide flood, a favored family, and an ark full of animals, only with Sumerian gods and heroes at its center instead of the familiar Yahweh.

As a supplement to the reading of the stories of the life of the Buddha, and an aid to understanding the role of the Buddha in Buddhism, Anil De Silva - Vigier's The Life of the Buddha Retold from Ancient Sources serves a unique function for it tells the life of the Buddha with illustrations of Buddhist art.

Your faith is based on old stories told by ancient people, not in a God being that you have witnessed yourself.

Although people use those terms for a variety of reasons, I do know those who think those books tell stories of the religion and culture of the ancient Jews, and as such are only history.

There are similar stories told in all ancient civilizations.

I'm shocked that we look to an ancient collection of folktales and stories to tell us how we should treat others and whom we should judge.

«It is an ancient food and there are a lot of funny stories to tell about tiger nuts,» Christiansen said.

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus tells a famous story of the Persian king Darius who one day decided to summon a group of Greeks to his court to ask them a very strange question; for what price would they eat the bodies of their dead parents?

Encompassing everything from ancient Greek geometry and quantum physics to the wedge and the World Wide Web, Science is a remarkable reference book that tells the story of science from earliest times to the present day!

Ancient fossils reveal the story of Earth, but can the oldest stars in the cosmos tell the story of the universe?

Iain McKechnie and Dana Lepofsky examine ancient herring fish bones that tell a fascinating story about how gigantic herring fisheries were for thousands of years in the Pacific Northwest.

It will tell them the story they're looking for: the story of ancient climates.

And the story we tell about ourselves reflects the ancient tradition of «once upon a time things were bad, and now they're good thanks to our party» or «once upon a time things were good, but now they're bad thanks to the other party.»

But a new analysis of nuclear DNA taken from 51 ancient Eurasians tells a different story.

Mites tell us about our own ancient history — it's a complex story, and we've only just scratched the surface.»

Genetic evidence suggests so, but ancient skeletons tell a different story.

Vellend walked me through a few Garry oak sites and told me a story as we strolled single file between slender but ancient and gnarled oak trunks, through buttercups, shooting stars, lomatium, and camas.

The size of the ancient droplets tells the story of how the earth was teeming with microbes when it should have been frozen solid.

As well as helping to explain how bioluminescence evolved, their finding tells a story of the journey of ancient animals deeper into the oceans.

A new study has found geochemical clues near the summit of volcanic Mauna Kea that tell a story of ancient glacier formation, the influence of the most recent ice age, more frequent major storms in Hawaii, and the impact of a distant climatic event that changed much of the world.

With the help of missions that have gone before Curiosity, we know that Mars was once a wet world with liquid water oceans that tell the story of an ancient Mars that was much warmer than it is today.

The story of the white elephant as history tells, is this rare creature was regarded as sacred and holy in ancient times in many Asian countries.

Coconut oil pulling has ancient origins, with a story that needs telling.

Sure, it involves no gigantic creature who's raining havoc on the world, or an ancient tome telling of mysteries of the past, but instead it has a story that i can almost see as being real.

Beyond a few quiet digs at our current culture — which has some eerie similarities to ancient Rome — all Scott and company want to do is tell a good story.

«The as - yet - untitled film will tell the tragic love story between imperial consort Yang, one of the four famed beauties of ancient China, and 8th century Emperor Xuanzong, the longest reigning monarch of the Tang Dynasty, who ascended to the throne at the summit of the dynasty's power and influence.

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Official Premise: Jack the Giant Slayer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.

Like that film, Gods tells the story of ancient deities taking an interest in the affairs of morals, whose fate falls into the hands of a youthful heartthrob with questionable acting skills.

Ancient mythology and modern cosmology come together in the story of Genesis, told in Noah's own words and illustrated with imagery reminiscent of Cosmos, a wedding science and religion in a way respectful of both.