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Bill Willingham's Fables, his take on the creatures of myth and legend as their lives intersect with our world, has been a strong seller for DC Comics» Vertigo imprint and was optioned for a pilot by ABC.

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Since the third century BC the man, myth and legend known variously as Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, La Befana, Yule Tomten and Christkindli has been an amazing entrepreneur each and every startup founder can learn from.

The reality is that as our knowledge has grown it has become ever more evident that the bible is a collection of ancient myths and legends.

Belief in myths and legends and a life filled with puerile wish thinking, ruled by threats and promises is an insult to us as a species.

Most biblical stories were adoptions of earlier myths and legends, such as the virgin birth, creation and Noah's flood.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

I know the Jesus of the Bible exists in myth and legend, but as for a man - god who died and rose from the dead - seriously?

We understand the book is a cobbling together of myths, folklore, local legend and possibly some decent home cleaning tips, fraudulently claimed as the word of your god.

If, as we suspect, the myths and legends of Genesis are shaped by Israel's faith, what does this mean?

This is the great myth of redemptive violence, which is seen in almost every movie, story, and legend of history, as well as within every daily newspaper and every nightly news broadcast.

The myths of Genesis tell us, as no objective history of public events could, what the community of Israel essentially believed about God's relationship to the world and to man; and the legends of the Fathers record Israel's understanding of herself, her own relationship to God and the world, her own sense of sin and inadequacy in tension with her conviction of special divine Election, her fears on the one hand and her highest hopes on the other.

If we understand history as that which belongs to the past and which throws light upon the past, then myth and legend have a high historical value.

I, No. 15, December 14, 1905], and in the introduction to Die Legende des Baalschem [1908] he speaks of legend as «the myth of I and Thou, the inspired and the inspirer, the finite who enters into the infinite, and the infinite who has need of the finite.»

You mention global myths of a great flood as supporting evidence, but even the article only states,» [a] lmost every culture has a legend about a great flood, and — with a little reading between the lines — many of them mention something like a comet on a collision course with Earth just before the disaster.»

In the five chapters of this book I have selected and discussed outstanding examples of Old Testament myth, legend, history, prophecy and law in an effort to show that common theological presuppositions underlie all of these varying literary types, and that they must be read and understood as speaking from faith to faith.

Hence it is possible to do what Pope Pius XII urged in his encyclical Divino Afflatu: to read history, where it is present, as history although written of course in the fashion thought right at the time; and to recognize and study poetry as poetry, legend as legend, myth as myth, moral teaching as moral teaching.

We have seen something of the covenant faith of Israel as it is expressed in Old Testament myth, legend and history.

The entire story is given to us in the Old Testament material, including as it does much genuine history as well as a good deal of legend and myth, not to speak of poetic expressions of the relationship between Jahweh and humankind but with reference also to non-Jewish races and nations.

Would it not make sense to assume that God was whispering to them as well, and that some of their legends, myths, and religious writings are based on what God was whispering to them?

Upon such criteria as literary form, the nature of the tradition, the social and theological concepts underlying and the apparent motivation of the story, Gunkel classified the myths and legends of Genesis.

Israel reads and records history, as it does myth and legend, through the eyes of faith.

They appear in many parts of the world in folk tales, legends, and myths, as well as in the dreams and fantasies of individuals.

Furthermore, Eastern religions, despite that wealth of fantasy, myth and legend which make them quite unacceptable to modern minds with an historic sense, possess a keen perception of the spiritual as opposed to the material.

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As it is the feminine version of Anthony, Antonia has strong connections to culture and heritage and holds her own in myths and legends giving this name an incredible history and depth.

Lorcan is a name that is rich in myth and legend and also associated with the ever popular Harry Potter series as one of the twin sons of Luna Lovegood Scamander.

We have found inspiration in love stories and in name meanings, as well as in myths and legends.

As the case often with myths and «urban legends,» many of the these are based on facts that have been misunderstood and twisted.

Words can not express the depth of gratitude I feel to have been given the space to share the sacred wisdom of the cacao bean and the importance of the cacao tree to the natives of Central and South America as found in their myths and legends.

«The amount of myths, poems and legends about love around the globe is astronomical,» says Fisher, «and until very recently people still regarded romantic love as part of the supernatural.»

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

The conflation of cinema as real life is charmingly seductive (print the legend), and the myth - making power of star cameos only adds to the glowing unreality.

But even as the revelations pile up and the screws tighten and you start to sense that terror and violence are inevitable, the movie never loses grip on what it's about; this is a rare commercial film in which every scene, sequence, composition and line deepens the screenplay's themes — which means that when the bloody ending arrives, it seems less predictable than inevitable and right, as in myths, legends and Bible stories.

We know myths and legends are simply mirrors of our human experiences — that we tell them as a means of comfort and to emphasize the ways we could and, perhaps, should live.

We chatted with zipper - challenged acting laureate, Tim Roth, the gorgeous and charming Alexandra Maria Lara (~ who also starred in Control, which we loved so much), and also the maverick, the myth, the legend, and purveyor of so many of my favourite vintages, who simply introduced himself as Francis.

Winchester (formerly known as Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built) is the latest spooky offering from the filmmaking siblings Michael and Peter Spierig, and was inspired by the myths and legends that have sprung up over the years around the infamous Winchester Mystery House.

This is a story about Elvis the Man — not the Myth or Legend — and the same goes for Nixon, who's portrayed as a hardworking, insecure and devoted family man.

Together they are the heart of this fable and amazingly so they make it not only believable but magical as they pull the audience along to a conclusion that leaves that which has already happened, legend, and what is to come, myth.

Text and animated versions of the myths and legends are provided, as well as a selection of photographs and pictures to supplement the text (a sample are attached) and background information.

Many kinds of traditional literature — folktales, legends, myths, fables, as well as short stories, poetry, and scenes from plays — enable and reward close reading.

«We are at the dawn of a digital revolution as a new generation of children is engaging with the myths, legends and great stories on their digital devices,» said Jim Bryant Trajectory's CEO.

An epic saga steeped in myth and legend, Heretic presents a portrait of the fourteenth century — and, especially, of the fate of the Holy Grail — as only master storyteller Bernard Cornwell can.

I love myths and legends and think it's great that you use them as your jumping board.

The rest of the categories are easier to rank in and still sell pretty well, such as Historical Fantasy, Sword & Magic, and Myths & Legends.

In the Kindle Store, Legend has been... # 1 > Paranormal Fantasy Top 20 ebook in Paranormal FantasyTop 100 bestseller in Paranormal Fantasy Orphaned as a child, Samantha grew up into a strong but lonely woman working on her doctorate thesis by researching the history of myths and legends.

In the myths and legends of ancient civilizations one can find a large number of confirmations of the «transformation» of a man into a woman, or vice versa, and this was written about as a quite ordinary phenomenon.

Like the others, I published my first book, Christianity: Myths and Legends through AuthorHouse... I spent thousands of dollars getting published, just as did Lisa and Anna.

It's just as well she knows the old legends and myths well.

In a city as ancient as Venice, myths and legends passed down from generation to generation record more than just love or murder.

As investors become increasingly aware that the conventional wisdom of modern investing is largely myth and urban legend, there will be growing demand for new ideas, and for more choices.