Sentences with phrase «own pyre»

«Pyre» comes from Supergiant Games, the folks behind new - classics like «Bastion» and «Transistor.»

«Pyre» looks to continue the tradition.

Their bodies were burned on huge pyres.

Where exactly (to throw a log on the pyre) did mankind arrive at the idea that a «day» for God (in whatever form one chooses) equates to a «day» for thee and me?

A Jewish man throws votive candles into a burning pyre as another blows a shofar at the grave of Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzera, known as the sage Baba Sali, on January 15, 2013 in the southern Israeli town of Netivot, Israel.

Everything, including church acceptance, the love of my brethren; in some cases, my livelihood, for some - a smoldering pyre; whether branded a heretic, or orthodox.

Stoicism offers an obvious example: a vision of the universe as a fated, eternally repeated divine and cosmic history, a world in which finite forms must constantly perish simply in order to make room for others, and which in its entirety is always consumed in a final ecpyrosis (which makes a sacrificial pyre, so to speak, of the whole universe).

William Carey, for instance, braved personal danger to express his resistance to the Hindu practice of sati (the immolation of widows at the funeral pyres of their husbands) at the very places in which these were being carried out.

Invoking the fire as witness of her innocence, she rushes into the flames, but Agni the fire - god arises out of the burning pyre and rescuing Sita, gives her to Rama.

He besought Rama that he might have his sandals with which to decorate his throne, and if at the end of the fourteen years Rama should not return alive he declared he would die upon the pyre.

She, after bitter complaint, requests to die on a funeral pyre and Rama consents.

He cleft the wood, he bound Isaac, he lit the pyre, he drew the knife.

When the astrologer forecast that he was fated to be torn to pieces by dogs, Domitian had him executed on the spot and thrown on a funeral pyre.

With or without the Florida burning, I am combusting my copy of the koran but also adding the ot / torah, nt and book of mormon to the pyre.

The smoke from their pyre was feared to contaminate the village and hence instead of cremation they had buried their dead.18 Pushed to the margins each family lived in their «mud - walled, one - roomed, mud - floored, thatched - roof hut».19

He was tied to the pyre and prayed.

Following the practice of some oriental and Hellenistic kingdoms, the Roman Senate, after the time of Julius Caesar, was accustomed to vote the deification (consecratio) of dead emperors who had served well, and it became a regular custom for some witness to swear that when the dead emperor's pyre was ablaze he had seen the emperor's soul wing heavenward.

Jackson recently began pushing the whole pyre out to sea.

Whether it's by neglect, design, or accident, Dolan and Jackson have seemed to be constructing a funeral pyre for their team in recent years.

Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.

The phoenix, a mythical bird that is said to build its own pyre, turn to ash, and then become reborn for its own ashes, it's definitely one quirky bird!

So, that defeat was nothing but a fiery pyre, with crackling dry wood of elite panic: they must bury Jonathan first, before he buried them with him.

But their evidence (and a complementary public debt analysis by Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart) were quickly challenged by most economists who re-examined it, with Paul Krugman throwing a last stick of Nobel dynamite onto the pyre.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has set fire to 11 giant pyres of elephant tusks to show his country's resolve to stamp out the illegal ivory trade and save elephants.

The study also recommends that from a mitigation standpoint, because funeral pyres are deeply entrenched cultural practices, replacing wooden pyres with alternative and ecofriendly practices seems to be the only viable option for controlling emissions.

In total, these pyres consume an estimated 50 to 60 million trees annually.

Brown carbon aerosol filter samples collected during a six - hour long funeral pyre burning in India.

Photo credit: DRIChakrabarty and colleagues found to their surprise that funeral pyre emissions contain sunlight - absorbing organic carbon aerosols known as brown carbon.

Teaming up with Shamsh Pervez, Ph.D., a professor of Chemistry at the Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, India and a 2011 Fulbright fellow to DRI, Chakrabarty designed and executed a comprehensive study to investigate the nature and impact of pollutant particles emitted from the widely - prevalent cultural practice of open - air funeral pyre burning in India and Nepal.

Thousands of animals have been slaughtered and burned atop huge pyres in a bid to halt the disease's spread.

The 73 - year - old Bem has defied the norm throughout his intellectual life, burning every dogma he's encountered in the pyre of his logic.

Cartel members said they incinerated all 43 bodies at the same time on a pyre made of wood and tires.

Past studies done with pig carcasses and human corpses revealed that when a body is burned on a pyre, the fat serves as fuel, but it doesn't provide enough heat to burn up all of the organic matter, Torero says.

Both the EAAF and Centro Prodh have played central roles in the Ayotzinapa story, with the former debunking the government's mass funeral pyre scenario and the latter providing years of legal support to survivors and families of the disappeared.

Head's up: That pyre may be more of a spring fling than a happily - ever - after thing.

It's always a good idea to communicate first, before you begin burning your partner's clothes in a pyre in the backyard.

Sati or suttee is an obsolete funeral custom where a widow immolates herself on her husband's pyre or takes her own life in another fashion shortly after her husband...

According to their tagline Pyre

Pyre is about a larger cast of characters during a much longer period in their lives.

Greg, on behalf of Slickster magazine thanks for taking the time to talk with us about Pyre again.

Supergiant game devs are currently working their newest offering, Pyre.

Greg, thank you for taking the time to talk to the Slickster Magazine about Pyre.

Pyre is currently in full production and should be available sometime next year on Steam and PlayStation 4.

Pyre is the third major effort from Supergiant Games.

Performances of the many solos parts for these instruments (in «Riddle of Steel», «Theology / Civilization», «Wifeing», «The Leaving / The Search», «Recovery» and «The Funeral Pyre» to name the most obvious examples) are fine indeed, and they are never drowned out by the other sections of the orchestra.

Minor motifs — including a cor anglais theme for Mourning - circle an earnest reprise of the love theme in «The Funeral Pyre».

Pyre teaches you to fight tirelessly for your freedom, but to question the definition of that freedom as well.

Pyre is a party - based RPG in which you lead a band of exiles to freedom through an ancient competition spread across a vast, mystical purgatory.

Pyre is NOT an RPG.

From the art to the music to the story to the tactical gameplay, and even to how they're all woven together so artfully, Pyre is an adventure that excels in every area of its design other than limiting its multiplayer to local only.