Wikipedia Related to serpentine:Serpentine rock ser·pen·tine (sûr′pən-tēn′, -tīn′) adj. 1.Of or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement; sinuous. 2.Subtly sly and tempting. 3.Relating to or associated with serpentinite or soil derived from it. ...
An image in myth directly supports this idea: in the balladJanet and Tam Lin(analyzed on this website), Tam Lin was once amortalknight who was pulled off his horse and taken into the unconscious by the Fairy Queen. Had she kept him he would have been sent to hell (madness), but he...
1.Surpassing all others in excellence, achievement, or quality; most excellent:the best performer; the best grade of ore. 2.Most satisfactory, suitable, or useful; most desirable:the best solution; the best time for planting. 3.Greatest; most:He spoke for the best part of an hour. ...
No 10-night Plantagenet-themed tour through France would be complete without a deep dive into the life of the most remarkable queen of them all, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Our journey took us to some of the most significant places in her life, from the serene beauty of Fontevraud Abbey, where ...
To our Blessed Mother we implore that As foretold, She will crush the serpent. The horrors that began in World War One And on to number Two - Work of Freemasons and the Dreadful Few. Will end now. Venomously, the Bolsheviks to Frankfurt went to start a New World Order school. Now th...
The ninth labour he [Eurystheus] enjoined on Hercules was to bring the belt of Hippolyte. She was queen of the Amazons, who dwelt about the riverThermodon, a people great in war; for they cultivated the manly virtues, and if ever they gave birth to children through intercourse with the...
Beautifully carved Eagle and a serpent. Abstract kissing couple. Female with Lotus flowers. Female face. Saigon’s Independence Palace and the fall of Saigon Saigon’s Independence Palace was built on the site of the older Norodom Palace. The Norodom Palace was built by the Governor of the Fre...
depicted as a raptor. His right eye was associated with the sun and Ra, the left eye with the moon and the god Thoth. In this Udjat, from around the same time period as the one above, the wing and feet of the raptor replace the lion, and are combined with a single serpent, which...
The queen said, “This man from the Land of the East [China] is a royal brother of the Tang court. In our country, the rulers of various generations since the time when chaos divided had never seen a man come here. Now the royal brother of the Tang emperor has arrived, and he must...
It was the image of the young Francis, not confronting the Goliath of military invasion, rather, the Goliath of a garden serpent who tempted him to return to the sweet life, la dolce vita. It was the image of the grace of a God given vision to live a virtuous life. Its simple grace...