Sentences with phrase «from ancient mythologies»

But the new monikers also draw inspiration from ancient mythologies and historical star names from indigenous cultures around the world, including in China, Australia and southern Africa.

From the ancient mythology of Rome's founding brothers Romulus and Remus, to the adventures of Mowgli in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and the keen animal perspective in Jack London's classics The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both positive and negative aspects of human nature have been called into question with fascinating imagination.

The title, like the entire series arc, arrived in a flash, which is strange because Themis is a Greek Titaness from ancient mythology and yet somehow, I knew about her.

The important thing is that I didn't base the book exactly on any one other book, it's a mashup of themes and elements I found in several other books; and those books are borrowing themes and elements from ancient mythology or pop culture (public knowledge).

Bedford Gallery (CA), Call for Artists - Sky: A National Juried Exhibition Deadline Extended: January 22nd, 2014 Theme: From ancient mythology to surreal skyscapes, artists and philosophers have long meditated on the theme of sky.

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Why a non-terrestrial culture would name their planet after a figure in ancient Roman mythology is open to question (Romulus and Remus were reared by a she - wolf and went on to found the city of Rome, which also takes its name from Romulus).

No... they're about ignorant fairytales from an archaic old book of ancient mythology.

Even more amazing is that you «know» this based on an ancient book that was cobbled together thousands of years ago and stole stories from pagan mythology.

If your so - called «faith» is so strong and «protects» you from all of your perceived «dangers of evil», then WHY are you so afraid of people who have simply decided to live a life guided by REASON instead of a life guided by contrived dogma and ancient mythology?

Supersti - tion will inevitably lose its place in society and be looked back on just as today we look back at ancient Egyptian, Roman, and Greek mythologies, except centuries and millennia from now it will be referred to as ancient Christian, Jewish, and Muslim mythologies.

His term Gaia is the name for Mother Earth derived from ancient Greek mythology.9

An ancient society ripe with mythology and trying to find meaning from every Thunderstorm, Every flood, every disease, every scary animal.

Sorry, but that's just a bunch of blah blah blah blah blah, meaningless nonsense from an ancient book of mythology.

Of course, this drift of subjectivity away from the cosmos, an alienation prepared for by ancient dualistic mythology, can not be mended by a restoration of pre-rational, naive consciousness.

7 itself takes up an existing image from ancient Canaanite mythology, the nearest parallels to which, in texts now available to us, are from Ugarit and Tyre.

Once Christianity became permanently divorced from its Semitic origins in Judaism, and was proclaiming its Gospel in a pagan context where the ancient mythology was still very much of a reality, it was natural that the idea of the unseen divine world above should steadily become more dominant in Christian thought.

And in Australia — where people and oversized animals may have coexisted thousands of years ago — some scholars have speculated that references to enormous animal - like creatures in Australia's Aboriginal «Dreamtime» mythology may have drawn from ancient encounters with real megafauna or their remains, known today from Australia's fossil record.

Pilgrims come from every corner of India and the globe to bathe in the rivers, where Hindu mythology says an ancient scuffle between gods and demons led to the spilling of amrit, the nectar of immortality.

From the land of Greek mythology and ancient history comes a skincare brand born out of a homeopathic pharmacy: Korres.

Gay history, gay art, homosexual mythology, gay love poems and articles on homosexuality from various world cultures, spanning ancient times to the present.

The ancient welsh saying from Welsh mythology, the Mabinogion says ¨ a fo ben bid bont ¨, which translates to ¨ He would be leader, let him be a bridge ¨.

What do you think we can learn from ancient Norse mythology?

In February 2017, Norton will publish Gaiman's new collection of stories, Norse Mythology, which is his own retelling of the ancient myths and poems from Scandinavia.

Over 60 unique magical cat name ideas from Magick, film, TV, literature, history and ancient mythology.

God of War continues to look like an epic mythical version of The Last of Us, with Kratos» relationship with his son grounding the story in between the epic action setpieces, battling ancient beasts from Norse mythology.

As such, the name ABZÛ references a concept from the oldest Mesopotamian mythology: it is the combination of two ancient words Ab, meaning ocean, and Zû, meaning to know.

Titan Quest: Ragnarok moves Iron Lore's action - RPG from ancient Greece to the Norse mythology of the Vikings.

«The name references a concept from the oldest mythologies; it is the combination of the two ancient words AB, meaning ocean, and ZÛ, meaning to know.

The PlayStation 4 additions are Transistor; the acclaimed sci - fi RPG from the creators of Bastion; and Apotheon; a 2D action game styled after ancient Greek mythology and pottery.

With the world plunged in eternal darkness and the Gods rendered powerless, Kratos will face the most feared creatures of Greek Mythology, and ultimately be forced to choose between his own personal redemption and saving the ancient world from certain destruction.

That trailer showed an older Kratos than fans had known in games past and changed setting from Ancient Greece to the realms of Norse mythology.

The plot takes place in ancient times, and is based on stories from Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, and Chinese mythologies.

In Still Life Studio, celebrated Australian artist Petrina Hicks continues to take inspiration from mythology and art history, this time featuring models with luminous skin posing with various props in a style inspired by ancient Roman sculptures.

If Houseago's works resonate, it is because they encompass a wide range of influences: the formal language of sculpture throughout the ages (from ancient to early modern), mythology, the natural world of plants and animals, African tribal art, cartoon imagery and contemporary music and culture (the title of the exhibition contains a fragment from the lyrics of «Wild Child» by Lou Reed and a reference to James Taylor's «Like A Circle Round the Sun»).

A well - read academician and a professor at Hunter College with a thorough understanding of philosophy and literature his work, maybe more than anyone else's in the group drew its inspiration from literature and philosophy rather than ancient Greek, Christian and Judaic mythology and religion.

Three themes that emerge from her work are explored in Outcasts: finding a voice, the process of constructing multiple perspectives on female identity; hybrid alternatives to the status quo, harnessing ancient and modern mythologies to subvert the established social and cultural order; and healing and empowerment as pathways to resistance, inclusiveness and recovery from loss and trauma.

In these excerpts from Phaidon's newly released «Flying Too Close to the Sun,» we examine the influence of ancient mythology on contemporary art.

Mermaid Parade, founded in 1983, is a celebration of ancient mythology and honky - tonk rituals of the seaside, it showcases over 3,000 creative individuals from all over the five boroughs and beyond, opening the summer with incredible art, entrepreneurial spirit and community pride.

Adeniyi - Jones draws from specific historical objects to create his own mythologies and imagined representations of ancient royalty as well as deities of the Yoruba, called orisha.

Angelbert Metoyer's abstracted works take inspiration from cosmic elements, psychoanalysis, ancient mythologies and his own memories.

Inspirations came from Greek and Roman mythology, history, and places, French Neo-classicism, and contemporary graffiti on ancient local walls.

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His oeuvre reflects the ancient cultures and diverse mythologies of his native Mexico as well as the influences of French Surrealism from his twenty - two years in Paris.

In the 1950s, the atomic - scientist - turned - artist, inspired by everything from Surrealism to ancient mythology, began creating a mind - bending body of work in which words and images become ideograms that border on the hallucinatory.

Hailing from Botswana and working in Johannesburg today, artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum's drawings and video animations look back to the beginning of time and its various interpretations — incorporating the beliefs of ancient mythologies and the results of cutting edge science.

The exhibition features more than eighty objects from the Brooklyn Museum and the DMA's permanent collection and explores themes of mythology, kingship, and everyday life in ancient Egypt through representations of felines.

2 or 3 Tigers derives its title from the work of artist, filmmaker and theater creator Ho Tzu Nyen, who explores the shifting shapes of tigers and weretigers in the ancient and modern mythology of Malaysia and Singapore.

Titles such as TCOM KUWAIT and DURAND LINE reference aerial military surveillance and conflict areas; others — ALPHA ANDROMEDAE, TIAMAT, PANGEA ULTIMA — are borrowed from constellations, ancient mythologies, and a potential supercontinent of the distant future.

Entang Wiharso (b. 1967, Tegal, Indonesia) studied painting, graduating from the Indonesian Institute of Arts in Yogyakarta in 1994 and is widely regarded for his dramatic visual language which draws on popular culture and ancient mythology to create unique images of contemporary life.

In fact, the Romans did have an ancient flood story in their mythology as Jupiter decided to «destroy the world», as do the Celts who would have seen England and Ireland cut off from each other and England separated from Europe.