In Arabic astronomy the twins were seen as peacocks. In Egyptian astrology they were twin goats, or else the two gods, Horus the Elder and Horus the Younger, while classical Greek mythology identified them as the twin brothers, Castor and Pollux, aka The Gemini, from the Latin word for twi...
Abraxas is a mystical word composed of Greek letters. It was believed to have magical powers and was often inscribed on amulets and charms. Around the second century AD, early Gnostics (ancient Greek religious thinkers) used the word to describe their god. Abraxas is described as a talisman w...
Commonly associated with the mystical and metaphysical realms, palingenesis derives from the Greek word for "born again." It has a deep history in philosophy, theology, politics, and biology. Griffin points out a paradoxical connection ... R Kargon,K Fiss,M Low,... 被引量: 1发表: 2015年...
: "That Apollon is the same as the sun and that one god is furnished with two names is made clear to us by the mystical words spoken in the secret initiation rites and by the popular refrain which can be heard everywhere : The sun is Apollon and Apollon is the sun."...
he was stunned to be told by Minos that he couldn't even go home again until he had taught Glaucus all his mystical powers. Resignedly, this he did. And in the end, with his freedom in sight, he bid King Minos farewell. "One last thing," he said to young Glaucus. "Spit into my...
Among the Plains Indians of North America, individuals had to discover their spirit animal through a mystical experience called a vision quest. Some Native American religions in Central America include nagualism, the idea that each person's life is linked to an animal or object called a nagual ...
It has been pointed out by certain authors that the role of mystical visions is of essential and decisive significance also as regards the development from the stage of the hermits of the deserts to that form of life which, in the proper sense of the word, is characterised as monastic. ...
In the Odyssey, the hero Odysseus and his men had to land on the mystical island of the lotus people. The scouts he sent to find food were offered lotus by the peaceful people. Odysseus had to drag his men off an island and chain them to their boat because they changed after eating ...
I can’t go along with the mystical idea that we love the sea because the progenitors of our species crawled out of the sea millions of years ago. After all, every mammal species did the same thing, and I don’t see cats or beagles lining up to get in the water. I’m forced to...
2. The myths deal with ___.A. the creation of the gods and the world B. the struggle among the gods for supremacy and the triumph of Zeus C. the love affairs and quarrels of the gods D. the effects of their adventures and powers on the mortal world E. all of the above 3. __...