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As John T. Westbrook says in his article, `` Twilight Of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review, Winter 1957 ): `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South, already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry, should be left to rest in peace, forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with ''.
A dead armadillo, the sole occupant of the stage, symbolizes the crisis and destruction of the Old Order.
Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".
The haugbui ( from the Old Norse word haugr meaning " howe " or " barrow ") was a mound-dweller, the dead body living on within its tomb.
Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".
** Old Believings It was believed that in England in the 14th century, that plains of any kind is where the dead wandered searching for their revenge.
Vulture is the name given to two groups of convergently evolved scavenging birds, the New World Vultures including the well-known Californian and Andean Condors, and the Old World Vultures including the birds which are seen scavenging on carcasses of dead animals on African plains.
Cognates of Old English dēor in other dead Germanic languages have the general sense of " animal ", such as Old High German tior, Old Norse djur or dȳr, Gothic dius, Old Saxon dier, and Old Frisian diar.
)" > occidetur (= occidātur ), a Classical synonym ( Old French occir, Italian uccidere, Occitan / Catalan aucire, Spanish occiso " dead person ", Romanian ucide " to kill ".
" Alaric Hall has equated the Vanir with the elves, and Joseph S. Hopkins and Haukur Þorgeirsson, building on suggestions by archaeologist Ole Crumlin-Pedersen and others, link the Vanir to ship burial customs among the North Germanic peoples, proposing an early Germanic model of a ship in a " field of the dead " that may be represented both by Freyja's afterlife field Fólkvangr and by the Old English Neorxnawang ( the mysterious first element of which may be linked to the name of Freyja's father, Njörðr ).
In the Old Norse Eiríksmál it is Sigmund and his nephew Sinfjötli (= Fitela ) who are sent to greet the dead King Eirík Bloodaxe and welcome him to Valhalla while in the Hákonarmál it is Bragi and Hermóðr who are sent to greet King Hákon the Good in the same situation, potentially suggesting an equivalence between the two was seen.
In Norse mythology, Naglfar or Naglfari ( Old Norse " nail ship ") is a boat made entirely from the fingernails and toenails of the dead.
In the Old Kingdom the Egyptians believed that Atum lifted the dead king's soul from his pyramid to the starry heavens.
The three Confederate dead are buried at the cemetery in Old Washington.
Dodd quotes as a cautionary example Augustine's allegorisation of the Good Samaritan, in which the man is Adam, Jerusalem the heavenly city, Jericho the moon-the symbol of immortality ; the thieves are the devil and his angels, who strip the man of immortality by persuading him to sin and so leave him ( spiritually ) half dead ; the priest and levite represent the Old Testament, the Samaritan Christ, the beast his flesh which he assumed at the Incarnation ; the inn is the church and the innkeeper the apostle Paul.
The Binding of Isaac is mentioned in the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews among many acts of faith recorded in the Old Testament: By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, " In Isaac your seed shall be called ," concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
Both Old World and New World vultures are scavenging birds, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead animals.
Old Church Slavonic, Avestan, Coptic, Biblical Hebrew, New Testament Greek, Ge ' ez, Ardhamagadhi, Pali, Sanskrit and Latin are among the many dead languages used as sacred languages.
* Finnish band Ensiferum wrote a song " Old Man " that contains two verses from Johan Ludvig Runeberg's work " The Cloud ’ s Brother ", where a dead hero ’ s girl shows her loss and pride by saying:
She ' ol ( or ; Hebrew Šʾôl ), translated as " grave ", " pit ", or " abode of the dead ", is the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible's underworld, a place of darkness to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous, regardless of the moral choices made in life, a place of stillness and darkness cut off from God.

Old and mentioned
Álfheim as an abode of the Elves is mentioned only twice in Old Norse texts.
Megiddo is mentioned twelve times in the Old Testament, ten times in reference to the ancient city of Megiddo, and twice with reference to " the plain of Megiddo ", most probably simply meaning " the plain next to the city ".
Bragi son of Hálfdan the Old is mentioned only in the Skjáldskaparmál.
The Batavi were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his commentary Commentarii de Bello Gallico, as living on an island formed by the Rhine River after it splits, one arm being the Waal the other the Lower Rhine / Old Rhine ( hence the Latin name Insula Batavorum, " Island of the Batavi ").
Originally cultivated in Iran and Mediterranean region, cumin is mentioned in the Bible in both the Old Testament ( Isaiah 28: 27 ) and the New Testament ( Matthew 23: 23 ).
The Garden of Eden ( Hebrew ג ַּ ן ע ֵ ד ֶ ן, Gan ʿEdhen ), is the biblical " garden of God ", described most notably in the Book of Genesis ( Genesis 2-3 ), but also mentioned, directly or indirectly, in Ezekiel, Isaiah and elsewhere in the Old Testament.
Other biblical scholars have argued that rather than being connected with Heth, son of Canaan, instead the Anatolian land of Hatti was mentioned in Old Testament literature and apocrypha as " Kittim " ( Chittim ), a people said to be named for a son of Javan.
Midwives are mentioned in the Old Testament: Exodus, Chapter 1.
For Christians, Moses — mentioned more often in the New Testament than any other Old Testament figure — is often a symbol of God's law, as reinforced and expounded on in the teachings of Jesus.
Another name for Mecca, or the wilderness and mountains surrounding it, according to Arab and Islamic tradition, is Faran or Pharan, referring to the Desert of Paran mentioned in the Old Testament.
His name is also mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith.
The olive tree and olives are mentioned over 30 times in the Bible, in both the New and Old Testaments.
In Norse mythology, troll, like thurs, is a term applied to jötnar, and are mentioned throughout the Old Norse corpus.
Sir Eider McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.
Sir Quackly McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.
Sir Roast McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.
Sir Stuft McDuck is mentioned in the story " The Old Castle's Secret " by Carl Barks and later appeared in Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.
Up to the 13th century the Scandinavians and Henry of Livonia in his chronicle called the town Lindanisa: Lyndanisse in Danish, Lindanäs in Swedish, also mentioned as Ledenets in Old East Slavic.
Ur is mentioned four times in the Torah or Old Testament, with the distinction " of the Kasdim / Kasdin "— traditionally rendered in English as " Ur of the Chaldees ".
The Varangians ( Varyags, in Old East Slavic ) are first mentioned by the Primary Chronicle as having exacted tribute from the Slavic and Finnic tribes in 859.
It was first referenced by an outside civilization in an Old Sabaic inscription of Karab ' il Watar from the early 7th century BCE, in which the King of Hadramaut, Yadail, is mentioned as being one of his allies.
Hilda Ellis Davidson comments that the existence of nine worlds around Yggdrasil is mentioned more than once in Old Norse sources, but the identity of the worlds is never stated outright, though it can be deduced from various sources.
Ctesiphon is first mentioned in the Book of Ezra of the Old Testament as Kasfia / Casphia ( a derivative of the ethnic name, Cas, and a cognate of Caspian and Qazvin ).
The Teutonic Knights began the construction of Ordensburg castle in 1347 as a stronghold against the Old Prussians, and the settlement of Allenstein was first mentioned the following year.
Chariots are frequently mentioned in the Old Testament, particularly by the prophets, as instruments of war or as symbols of power or glory.

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