. The fourth-century commentator of The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Guo Pu, however, specifies that the mother of Qi (Kai) metamorphosed into stone and gave birth to Qi on the mountain. Thus the tradition of Qi’s miraculous birth is confirmed by at least the early fourth century A....
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 sea•scape (ˈsiˌskeɪp) n. 1.a sketch, painting, or photograph of the sea. ...
One in particular is the headless deity Xingtian (刑天) (fig. 4) from the Classic of Mountains and Seas (c. 4th–1st century BCE): Xingtian and the Supreme God Di came to this place and struggled against each other for ultimate power. The Supreme God cut off Xingtian’s head and ...
Summary: The firm that's transforming an archipelago, desert and mountains - an area about the size of Belgium - on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast into a global tourism destination is talking to banks to raise $3.5 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Red Sea developmen...
Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign....
Tower of Hercules (cultural) Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana (cultural) Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija * (cultural) Antequera Dolmens Site (cultural) Caliphate City of Medina Azahara (cultural) Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape (cultura...
The diving was part of this trip but almost secondary to the main objective, which was to experience the Atlantic Ocean and all it had to offer. As this did not come naturally, we had to search the seas and sail around quite a bit to capture underwater images of the unique aggregations...
It resembles the illustrated edition of Shanhai Jing 山海經 (the Classic of Mountains and Seas) from the Ming Dynasty” (Dai 1982, pp. 267–68). The characters in the images are mixed together in a peculiar and unrelated manner. What factors led to this situation? One possible speculation ...
Some media outlets picked up a sensational discovery made in Peru that was announced on March 31, 2008 by a group of U.S. archaeologists: In a crude burial site high in the Andean mountains, they found next to a crumbling skull a beautiful golden necklace consisting of nine golden cylindric...
of small, packed pebbles.”The Travellers Guides (1965) says similar to those above but adds:“A megalithic circle on the NE flank of the fell[Black Combe].From the summit continue along the main ridge and descend towards a cart-track beside which the circle will be seen. It consists of...