第1章 Preface的内容摘要:When I was acting, with my children and friends, in Mr Wilkie Collins's drama of The Frozen Deep, I first conceived the main idea of this story. ...
Monotheism is a religious perspective which asserts that the world was created by a single deity. Most monotheistic traditions that exist in the world today believe in a single God who is omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnipresent (everywhere at once)....
Compared to the Brahmanic rituals of later eras this fire-ritual was a very simple affair which has more in common with shamanic practices than the elaborate structures of organized religion. There are three main gods invoked in the Rigveda: Agni (god of fire), Soma (moon-god and personifi...
With his appetite for conquest and knack for combat, the shark god Dakuwaqa was determined to vanquish all his rivals. 凭借对征服的渴望和战斗的技巧, 鲨鱼之神达库瓦卡决心战胜所有对手。Long ago, the ancestral gods of Fiji, known as kalou vu or simply vu, settled on the Pacific archipelago...
Seth was one of the earliest Egyptian gods, and although, during long periods of time, he was associated with chaos and violence, at other times, he was known as an important ally to Re (or Ra) and other order-maintaining deities. The complex character of Seth is especially reflected in...
I guess it WoUld be that the Work WaS generaIIy ChoSen based Off the PlaCe I Wanted to be, and not the Other Way around. I now realize how much Ive Iearned from having to adapt to every new role and WOrk across a Variety OfindUStrieS With different groups Of people. ProfeSSional devel...
Man proposes, God disposes. 谋事在人,成事在天 Many hands make light work. 众人拾柴火焰高。 Many heads are better than one. 三个臭皮匠,赛过诸葛亮 Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. 有心栽花花不发,无心插柳柳成荫。 Measure (br measure. 针锋相对。 n f I c ...
The next day was the same, and the next and the next. Midas became richer and richer and thinner and thinner. Soon it was clear he was going to die. Then the god, who had known what would happen, came back the palace. "Do you want me to take the gift back?" he asked the ...
Who had the Labyrinth built in Greek mythology? Who is known as the earthshaker in Ancient Greek mythology? Who was the Ancient Roman sun god? Who made pottery in Ancient Greece? Who is the greatest Greek warrior? Who is the Greek god of fire?
Humour was always a big part of Hawking's effort to bring physics to the masses. In his 2010 book, The Grand Design, for instance, he recounts how, in 1277, the Catholic Church declared scientific laws such as gravity to be wrong since they seemed against God's idea. "Interestingly,"...