...servant, Cedalion, to guide Orion to the uttermost East where Helios, the Sun, healed him; Orion carried Cedalion around on his shoulders. Orion returned
...lution of a storm cloud: Begotten by air (Zeus), water (Poseidon), and the sun (Apollo), a storm cloud is diffused (Chios, which Comes derives from χέω
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...ce was a specimen shot in 1886 by Israel Ammon Hutchins on what is now the Sun Ranch in Montana. It appeared to be a wolf-like creature with a long head,
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...he presence of outsiders, and are always performed in the direction of the sun. Wednesday is the holy day but Saturday is the day of rest.There is also a
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...could not be restored Manabozho told him to follow the path of the setting sun and become the chief of the shades in the Hereafter where all would meet. M
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...ce men from Twenty-Nine Palms were returning home from a day of fun in the sun at Big Bear Lake at about 9:00 p.m. when they encountered a creature that t
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...woman, quite unknown to her, "drawing out the thread" as she basked in the sun. There was nothing very remarkable in her appearance, except the length and
Hidden frae the glorious sun,
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* In the ''The Book of the New Sun'' series by Gene Wolfe, a constellation is named after the peryton.
Its strangest trait is that, when the sun strikes it, instead of casting a shadow of its own body, it casts the shado
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*In Gene Wolfe's ''Book of the Long Sun'', Echidna appears as the Great Queen of the gods and the wife of the chief
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...was erected in 1400 BC, probably by Thutmose IV. gives three names of the sun: ''Kheperi - Re - Atum''.
...ite Dream Stela between its paws to commemorate the incident and honor the sun god Harmakhis who had spoken to him through the Sphinx.
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...d to rest. His breath became the wind; his voice the thunder; left eye the sun and right eye the moon; his body became the mountains and extremes of the w
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On the walls were carved pictograms of the heavens: the sun, the moon, the stars, and the Earth with lines of dots connecting them. The
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...pable of going into suspended animation until softened and reheated by the sun or some other source of heat. They are about 1.5 meters long, and their cru
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...ding a white horse with white harness, who is Day; a red rider, who is the Sun; and one in black, who is Night. She is served by invisible servants inside
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...given to Amaterasu, Susano-Oh's sister, who is the Japanese Goddess of the Sun. She then gave it to her descendant on Earth, the Emperor; from that point
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...onsecrated to the Sun; and ancient painters represented the chariot of the Sun as drawn by griffins.
...ith the king of beasts and lord of the earth. Griffins are a symbol of the sun, wisdom, vengeance, strength, and salvation.
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...h). Other gods were not Anunnaki at all, but were personifications of the Sun, or what were described as 'Sir', or Dragons, in Babylonian. This word, 'S
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...suppositions that the name "Talos" in the old Cretan language meant the ''Sun'', and that Zeus was known in Crete by the similar name of ''Zeus Tallaios'
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...fish that, according to Egyptian legend, swam in front of the prow of the sun god's ship on the lookout for danger.
...crow three times each day: once at dawn, once at midday and once when the sun sets.
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...utting a Titaness and a Titan over each. Theia and Hyperion were given the Sun and the power of illumination; Phoebe and Atlas were given the Moon and the
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at the place where the sun rises.
the place where the sun rises,
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