Sentences with phrase «mythological figures who»

The real colour, however, comes from the deities and mythological figures who hijack these conversations, akin to your mother picking up the phone in the other room while you're on the line with your flame.

«He» is a construct based on may previous mythological figures who were «born of a virgin», «was resurrected», etc...

In Fred Saberhagen's Swords series, Ardneh is a mythological figure who fought the great demon Orcus to protect humanity from his ravages.

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Reading all the comments, frankly why people should take some mythological figures and ancient history made out in mordern times to hate a section of people, frankly who knows how Jesus was and what exactly the «Jews» did to him 2000 years back, these are just stories made up in the minds of people.

Usually the one who dies and rises is a mythological figure, such as Osiris in the Isis cult.

Those who really struggle with weight loss and maintaining healthy lifestyle choices can feel a lot like Sisyphus, the mythological Greek figure eternally doomed to push a giant boulder up a hill over and over only to see it roll to the bottom again and again.

They say it is no coincidence that it is named after the Greek mythological figure Medea, who killed her children out of spite when her husband decided to divorce her and take another wife.

From the Greek mythological references of the Sirens, who lured sailors to their watery graves, to Biblical figures like Delilah, whose betrayal led to Samson's enucleation and ultimate death, the femme fatale has taken on many forms in literature, art and other mediums.

Josh Brolin's Lt. Det. Christian «Bigfoot» Bjornsen emerges as another product of bogeyman / mythological figure: the stoic representative of law and order who, at one point, plays a mean trick on Doc by making him think Shasta's been found dead, while at another he's seen as henpecked and small as his wife (Delaina Mitchell) berates Doc for the shrink bills he's inspired.

Warner cunningly parses the undercurrents of hate and fear in today's multicultural metropolises by interleaving the spellbinding, time - warping tale of a seemingly mythological figure, Leto, a self - sacrificing mother and unwanted refugee, into a wickedly incisive contemporary plot involving a young man who claims to be in contact with the goddess of the displaced and disenfranchised whose name is, of course, Leto.

What / Why: «This exhibition presents the work of contemporary artists who invent mythological beings, fantastic creatures, allegorical figures, fictional characters, and personal avatars to both humble and heroic proportions in order to critically engage and challenge concepts of otherness.