Sentences with phrase «of ancient legend»

The power and depth of ancient legend created a strong and multi-layered tapestry in which to weave the threads of my story, and the Fates» responsibilities — creating life, determining destiny, and ending life — represent human transitions perfectly.

Together, they embark on a journey that takes them far from home and down winding mountain trails where their actions set in motion the unravelling of an ancient legend that threatens the lives of all dwarfs.

While deep in the Great Range of the Himalaya, the author and his companions experience three encounters with individuals they believe to be the true Ri - iha - mo, the «celestials» of ancient legend.

But Sarah and her husband, Paul (Scott Speedman), soon learn of an ancient legend that haunts the town and has created a culture where ghosts have become the answer to anything that goes wrong.

It is the stuff of ancient legend, and even of poetry.

By Richard Sterling Recipe Kimchi It is the stuff of ancient legend, and even of poetry.

The unworldly thinker is a figure of ancient legend: Socrates himself, of course, losing himself in thought at the threshold of a dinner party, as described in Plato's Symposium; or Thales, who reportedly fell into a well from looking at the stars; or Diogenes the Cynic, whose only request to Alexander the Great upon meeting him was that he get out of his sunlight.

Rabbi Ginzerg's compilation of these ancient legends can be found at the Project Gutenberg website.

While in a remote region of the Himalayas, explorer M.G. Hawking and his companions experience three encounters with individuals they believe to be the true «star beings» of ancient legends.

-- Mark Twain Drawn from the archived journals and field notes of explorer M.G. Hawking's five years in exceedingly remote areas of the world, this book explores several of the most captivating of all ancient legends, stories that for thousands of years have fascinated and inspired millions.

Kjartan, the district magistrate's representative sent to investigate the crime, soon finds himself descending into a dark, dangerous world of ancient legends, symbolism, and secret societies to find a killer.

Preferring to work in bronze, «the most visually expressive material» according to Namdakov, his work submerges the viewer into the world of ancient legends, horsemen, warriors, shamans and Buddhist lamas.

Preferring to work in bronze, «the most visually expressive material» according to Namdakov, his work submerges the viewer into the world of ancient legends, of horsemen, warriors, shamans and Buddhist lamas.

Not exact matches

That can't be proved, of course, so every such case resides in the limbo of urban legend and ancient superstition.

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.

Later, an ancient Christian legend spoke of Mary giving the eggs to Roman soldiers and begging them not to kill her son.

The Bible (OT) is a book which includes * some * history of primitive Hebrew culture, and * some * good advice for practical, beneficial human behavior, but mostly it is a compilation of ancient Middle Eastern historical fiction, myth, legend, superst.ition and fantasy.

An ancient Hebrew legend (not in the Bible) tells us that God did not open up the Red Sea for the fleeing Israelites to pass through until one of them boldly jumped into the sea to lead the way.

The Bible is a book of ancient Jewish myths and legends.

Because the name is one with the essence of the thing named great care and ceremony were exercised in the giving of names; and we find reflected in the legends of Genesis an inordinate interest in the origin of ancient names of both places and people.

Remembering that the faith of Israel is portrayed in the legends of Genesis primarily by the selection and arrangement of narratives which had an independent and often ancient origin, we need not wonder that the story of Peniel retains something of the enigmatic and primitive from its origin.

The Bible is a book which includes * some * history of primitive Hebrew culture, and * some * good advice for practical, beneficial human behavior, but a great deal of it is a compilation of ancient Middle Eastern historical fiction, myth, legend, superst.ition and fantasy.

It's the same thing with many other legends / tales like phoenixes for example are in dozens of ancient tales from across the word (Arabian, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Indian (American and Arab / middle eastern).

The Bible is a book which includes * some * history of primitive Hebrew culture, and * some * good advice for practical, beneficial human behavior, but mostly it is a compilation of ancient Middle Eastern historical fiction, myth, legend, superst.ition and fantasy.

But I learned that famed classical historian A.N. Sherwin - White of Oxford said it took more than two generations in the ancient world for legends to develop and wipe out a solid core of historical truth.

Form criticism, building on the foundations of the immense comparative studies of the religionsgeschichtliche Schule, dismissed the stories as typical products of the legend - making propensities of ancient religious movements, to be paralleled in both Jewish and Hellenistic religious literature.

What I find fascinating is that various of ancient civilizations that were separated from each other, had very similar underlying themes to their own stories, myths and legends.

They attack EVERYTHING that is different and doesn't conform to their collection of cherry picked verses from an ancient, contradictory, illogical, book of myths and legends.

These bizarre events are also echoed in the legends and myths of every ancient culture upon the earth: the ancient Greeks, the Egyptians, the Hindus, the South Sea Islanders, the American Indians, and virtually all the others.

The Bible is a book which includes * some * history of primitive Hebrew culture, and * some * good, practical, advice for beneficial human behavior (advice which can be gleaned in other places and by other means, btw); but mostly it is a compilation of ancient Middle Eastern historical fiction, myth, legend, superst.ition and fantasy.

The backdrop of legend, which in the ancient world made life's history on the earth seem a matter of centuries, has for us been lifted, revealing a vista of uncounted millenniums of organic life, suffering unfathomable agony long before man was here to sin at all.

The natural tendency of loyal devotees would be to carry back the name of their god to their most ancient patriarchal legends and to confirm his worship with the sanctions of antiquity.

It is related to the ancient legend of Sargon of Accad, an abandoned baby who, like Moses, was miraculously saved and became leader and ruler of his people.

A Greek legend, no doubt concocted by an ancient vegetable merchant, recounts the Oracle of Delphi saying to Apollo, «The radish is worth its weight in lead, the beet its weight in silver, and the horseradish its weight in gold.»

Baily Winery Shakespeare in the Vines presents «A Midsummer Night's Dream» at Baily Winery / July 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29 / Show time 7 pm — 9:30 pm / Directed by Daniel Baca / Set in a time when myths were current events, legends were history, and magic was real, A Midsummer Night's Dream transports us to Ancient Greece where four days of adventure are compressed into a single night by magic!

According to the legend, ancient Aztec warriors had a ritual of eating a spoonful of chia seeds before a battle to keep them satiated and full of energy ¹.

Despite that rather melodramatic beginning, marathon running developed into a comparatively low - risk event, or at least it was until England's Chris Stewart, the third - place finisher in both the 1976 and»77 New York Marathons, turned the ancient Greek legend on its head and began running relief supplies across sniper - infested battle lines and into the broken heart of Croatia and Bosnia - Herzegovinia.

November 8: Art lovers and their little ones can go on a Stroller Tour through Art and Legends of the Ancient World (Wellesley)

In Ancient Rome, the legend of the twin brothers who founded the city (Romulus and Remus) made the birth of twin boys a blessing, while twin girls were seen as an unlucky burden, since both would have to be provided with an expensive dowry at about the same time.

According to ancient Irish legends, Aoife was the offspring of several different heroines, and was storied to be a fierce warrior, as well - a bonus for parents looking to give their little girl a unique and lyrical name that also denotes strength and power.

Aregbesola who described the throne of Ooni as institution that has successfully assembled a panoply of eminent personalities from all over the world to the ancient city of Ile - Ife, in Osun State expressed greater pleasure in the fact that the ancient town has tremendously lived up to the legend of the spot where creation began.

Williams's account of squid, octopuses, and other cephalopods abounds with both ancient legend and modern science.

YICHANG, China — According to legend, one of China's ancient emperors — Da Yu, or Yu the Great — changed the course of Chinese history by placing a mountain in front of the Yangtze River, forcing it to flow east through the Middle Kingdom (instead of south like the other great rivers that rise in the same Yunnan region of southwest China).

5000 B.C. Legend of the tooth worm: The first documented reference, in a Sumerian text, of a myth popular throughout the ancient world that a worm living in your gums caused dental pain and cavities.

The presence of cannabis in her tomb may not be that meaningful, though, says Adrienne Mayor, who wrote about the maiden in The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World.

According to an ancient Chinese legend, when the people of earth were starving the Emperor of Heaven gazed down upon them with compassion, and called the Ox god to him.

Current theater is full of ancient greek mythology and legends that date.

Phoenix is a mythical bird, dating back to ancient civilizations and is part of the legend and lore.

Of course, the realm of the archetypal is where popular culture lives, and Mr. Tarantino does not hesitate to train his revisionist energies on some deep and ancient national legendOf course, the realm of the archetypal is where popular culture lives, and Mr. Tarantino does not hesitate to train his revisionist energies on some deep and ancient national legendof the archetypal is where popular culture lives, and Mr. Tarantino does not hesitate to train his revisionist energies on some deep and ancient national legends.

Tom is researching an ancient Egyptian legend called the Purple Rose of Cairo.