According to the Homeric-hymn to the Pythian, Apollo shot his first arrow as an infant which effectively slew the serpent Pytho, the son of Gaia, who guarded the spot.

According to one version of their myth, the first hunter ( Alioth ) is carrying a bow and arrow to strike down the bear.

According to the Mahabharat, Pandu, the father of the Pandavas, accidentally killed the sage Kindama and his wife with an arrow mistaking them for a deer.

According to Apollodorus, Talos was slain either when Medea drove him mad with drugs, deceived him that she would make him immortal by removing the nail, or was killed by Poeas's arrow ( Apollodorus 1. 140 ).

According to the statistical notion of increasing entropy the " arrow " of time is identified with a decrease of free energy.

According to the CPT Theorem, this means they should also be time irreversible, and so establish an arrow of time.

According to the modern physical view of wave function collapse, the theory of quantum decoherence, the quantum arrow of time is a consequence of the thermodynamic arrow of time.

According to Herodotus he was said to have traveled around the world with an arrow symbolizing Apollo, eating no food.

According to the legend, Kāma fired an arrow at Śiva in order to cause Śiva to take an interest in Umā.

According to a Syrian chronicle, he is also reported to have been killed by an arrow shot by a Chinese archer during the siege.

* According to some Hindu legends, Parashurama shot his arrow into the sea and commanded the Sea God to recede up to the point where his arrow landed.

d. According to Taddesse Tamrat, though the royal chronicle describes Amda Seyon as being armed with a sword, the chronicler only refers to the Emperors skill with the bow and arrow, spear, and shield ; Taddesse further notes in a footnote that swords seem to only be used in a ceremonial manner in contemporary hagiographies.

According to both Shia and Sunni traditions, the arrow was three-headed.

According to the legend in Ramayana, while hunting in the forest of Ayodhya, King Dashratha heard a sound near a lake and unleashed an arrow, hoping to hit an animal.

According to C. V. Radhakrishna Sastri, " Sara " also refers to an arrow, and the perishable body shines if it is aimed at Bhagavan, because He shines in that body.

According to Scott Simpson, the Gona Project's physical anthropologist, the fossil evidence from the Middle Awash indicates that both A. kadabba and A. ramidus lived in " a mosaic of woodland and grasslands with lakes, swamps and springs nearby ," but further research is needed to determine which habitat Ardipithecus at Gona preferred.

According to Hippolytus of Rome, John Mark is not Mark the Cousin of Barnabas, and Barnabas did not dispute with Paul because of personal favor to a blood relative, but due to his character as his nickname Barnabas (" Son of Encouragement ") indicates.

According to the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, indirect comparison indicates that side-effects from benzodiazepines may be about twice as frequent as from nonbenzodiazepines.

According to Denis Sinor, this reference indicates that the Göktürks were specialized in metallurgy, though it is unclear if they were miners or, indeed, blacksmiths.

According to the documentary hypothesis, use of names of God indicates authorship, and form critics variously assign passages like Genesis chapter 26, verses 6-11 to the Yahwist source, and Genesis chapter 20 verses 1-7, chapter 21, verse 1 to chapter 22, verse 14 and chapter 22, verse 19 to the Elohist source ; this source-critical approach has admitted problems, in that the name " Yahweh " appears in Elohist material.

According to the compilation hypothesis, the formulaic use of the word toledoth ( generations ) indicates that Genesis chapter 11, verse 27 to chapter 25, verse 19 is Isaac's record through Abraham's death ( with Ishmael's record appended ), and Genesis chapter 25, verse 19 to chapter 37, verse 2 is Jacob's record through Isaac's death ( with Esau's records appended ).

According to the Midrash, the plural form of the word " weeping " indicates the double sorrow that Rebecca also died at this time.

According to Ptolemy, the Suebic Lombards settled south of the Sugambri, but also remained at the Elbe, between the Chauci and the Suebi, which indicates a Lombard expansion.

According to epidemiological models, Yersinia pestis originated outside of Europe which indicates that Western and central Europe have never had any natural rodent plagues.

According to Horowitz, the quality of the writing indicates that this was a royal inscription, apparently a letter from the a king of Jerusalem to the pharaoh in Egypt.

According to Kotowski, this episode indicates that even the most minor activities of the German minority were closely scrutinized by the Polish authorities beginning with the earliest phase of Polish policy towards the German minority.

According to an 1858 interview with Richard Worth Jr., Chapman was buried " respectably " in the Archer cemetery, and Fortriede believes use of the term " respectably " indicates Chapman was buried in the hallowed ground of Archer cemetery instead of near the cabin where he died.

According to Dr. Mark P. Mattson, chief of the laboratory of neurosciences at the US National Institute on Aging, fasting every other day ( intermittent fasting ) shows beneficial effects in mice as strong as those of caloric-restriction diets, and a small study conducted on humans at the University of Illinois at Chicago indicates the same results

According to Ben Kiernan ; demographic evidence indicates a toll of about 170, 000 deaths caused by all sides from 1975 to 1980, a sum that represents a quarter of the population ( Kiernan concludes that it was proportionately comparable to the murder of — by his count — 1. 8 million people by the Communist Pol Pot regime in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 ).

According to researchers, this gartel indicates when the bearing tree was infected by a certain virus or viroid, which decreases the albedo on the specific spot.

According to author Simon Broughton, the composer and song collector Kodály identified songs that " apparently date back 2, 500 years " in common with the Mari people of Russia ; and, as well as the Mari, the ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl indicates similarities in traditional Hungarian music with Mongolian and Native American musical styles.

According to the audio adventure ' Journey to Marineville ' the 3 on Stingray's fins indicates she is Stingray Mark III and Marineville is 20 miles inland ( not 10 miles as per the TV episode The Big Gun ).

According to historians, this name derives from the name of Narva or Narva River and indicates that a frequently used trade route went through Narva, although there is no evidence of the existence of a trading settlement at the time.

According to Duquette and Hyatt, " this indicates ( or at least implies ) Dee's familiarity with the Lemegeton and his attempt, at least early in his workings, to incorporate it in the Enochian system ".

According to some writers she was Russian, but her father's name indicates an English origin.

According to the structure of the university at the time, Thomas would have entered the Scots College there ; the fact that the subscription was of Scottish officers indicates that that is the most likely possibility.

According to page 42 from an Environmental Protection Agency study, " the American Petroleum Institute ( 2002 ) indicates that 40 % to 80 % of a product spill may be retained in soils as residual product .").

According to a hypothesis called a " selective sweep ", the rapid spread of a mutation ( such as the new ASPM ) through the population indicates that the mutation is somehow advantageous to the individual.

According to Constantine's DAI a Serbian tribe named „ Pagani “ ( what Constantine himself translates as “ unbaptized in the Slavic tongue ” ( DAI, 29, 81 ) indicates that the others were already Christianized.

According to his website, three extended periods of his fasting have been observed under control of scientific and medical teams, the first lasting 211 days in 1995 – 96, in Calicut, India, under the direction of Dr C. K. Ramachandran.

According to Reinhardt, a successful brass embouchure depends on a motion wherein the performer moves both the mouthpiece and lips as a single unit along the teeth in an upward and downward direction.

According to Moore, she asked CBS to pull the show, as she was unhappy with the direction of the program and the producers.

According to Newton's 3rd Law, the Earth itself experiences a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to that which it exerts on a falling object.

According to the right-hand rule, the direction away from the observer is associated with clockwise rotation and the direction towards the observer with counterclockwise rotation, like a screw.

According to ordinary quantum theory, it is not possible to measure the spin or polarization of a particle directly ; instead, the component in one direction is measured ; the outcome from a single particle may be 1, meaning that the particle is aligned with the measuring apparatus, or-1, meaning that it is aligned the opposite way.

According to Caesar's Gallic Wars this doubling reflected the idea that it was difficult to identify the direction of the river due to its slow rate of flow.

According to legend Spears asked directions to the nearest town, and Bronko lifted his plow and used it to point in the direction of town.

According to American artist George Caleb Bingham, himself a resident of Kansas City at the time, one could see the " dense columns of smoke arising in every direction ", symbolic of what he termed " a ruthless military despotism which spared neither age, sex, character, nor condition ".

According to William Whipple Warren's History of the Ojibway People ( 19xx ), Moningwunakuaning " is the spot on which the Ojibway tribe first grew, and like a tree it has spread its branches in every direction, in the bands that now occupy the vast extent of the Ojibway earth ; and also that ' it is the root from which all the far scattered villages of the tribe have sprung.

According to Palmer, it is arguable that Delius gained his sense of direction as a composer from his French contemporary Claude Debussy.

According to Alan F. Arbogast (" Discovering Physical Geography ") wind direction and speed are affected by three main factors:

According to Cheiro, this line is thought to endow a person with an intensity of purpose or single-mindedness, the nature of which is decided upon by exact position of this line on the hand and the direction of any branches shooting from it, which is normally the case.

According to Jewish tradition, monotheistic Judaism arose in Egypt under the direction of Moses.

According to the Smithsonian's Astrophysical Observatory the team, under Van Flandern's direction, broke a tracking record in 1961.

According to Foucault, Marxists also seized this discourse and took it in a different direction, transforming the essentialist notion of " race " into the historical notion of " class struggle ", defined by socially structured position: capitalist or proletarian.

According to Feklisov, he was supplied by Perl, under Julius Rosenberg ’ s direction, with thousands of documents from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, including a complete set of design and production drawings for the Lockheed's P-80 Shooting Star.

According to Alford Welch, the Jewish practice of having three daily prayer rituals appears to have been a factor in the introduction of the Islamic midday prayer but that Muhammad's adoption of facing north towards Qiblah ( position of Jerusalem-Islam's first Qiblah or direction of prayer, and now present Qiblah towards Kabah in Makkah ) when performing the daily prayers however was also practiced among other groups in Arabia.

According to William Sewell, Sieyès ' pamphlet set “ the tone and direction of The French Revolution … but its author could hardly control the Revolution ’ s course over the long run ”.

According to its platform the National Coalition Party wants to build " a society where a person ’ s own choices, hopes, and needs set the direction for national development.

According to Magnus Londen, the stories told by Ior Svedlin during his guided tours gradually evolved in a bizarre direction, resulting into a conflict with his employer.

According to the Curb Your Enthusiasm Seinfeld Reunion, George has become a multi-millionaire by inventing an iPhone application called " iToilet ," which would point the user in the direction of the nearest accessible toilet, wherever they were in the world.

According to Neil Postman, Media ecology is concerned with understanding how technologies and techniques of communication control the form, quantity, speed, distribution, and direction of information ; and how, in turn, such informational configurations or biases affect people's perceptions, values, and attitudes.

According to the Aramaic hypothesis, the oldest Brāhmī inscriptions shows striking parallels with contemporary Aramaic for the sounds that are congruent between the two languages, especially if the letters are flipped to reflect the change in writing direction.