According to Homer, Circe suggested two alternative routes to Odysseus to return to Ithaca: toward the " Wandering Rocks " where King Aeolus reigned or passing between the dangerous Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, conventionally identified with the Strait of Messina.

According to Taylor, by the early 19th century this deism-mediated exclusive humanism developed as an alternative to Christian faith in a personal God and an order of miracles and mystery.

According to Greenpeace, golden rice has not managed to do anything about malnutrition for 10 years during which alternative methods are already tackling malnutrition.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, after the cycle of Grail romances was well established, late medieval writers came up with a false etymology for sangréal, an alternative name for " Holy Grail.

According to the EU, the aim of the directive is to provide greater monitoring and control of alternative investment funds.

According to the alternative constitutive theory of statehood, a state exists only insofar as it is recognized by other states.

According to an alternative version, Malcolm's mother took both sons into exile at the court of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Earl of Orkney, an enemy of Macbeth's family, and perhaps Duncan's kinsman by marriage.

According to the most common definition of digital signal, both baseband and passband signals representing bit-streams are considered as digital transmission, while an alternative definition only considers the baseband signal as digital, and passband transmission of digital data as a form of digital-to-analog conversion.

According to a 2008 GRTC operations analysis report, a majority of GRTC riders utilize their services because they do not have an available alternative such as a private vehicle.

According to this interpretation, the purpose of a quantum-mechanical theory is to predict the relative probabilities of various alternative histories ( for example, of a particle ).

According to The Silmarillion, Ungoliant's unremitting hunger drove her to devour herself, although an alternative sketch of Eärendil's voyage suggests that he slew her in the south.

According to a 1998 task force report, some physicians are choosing to add naturopathic modalities to their practice, and states such as Texas have begun to establish practice guidelines for MDs who integrate alternative and complementary medicine into their practice.

" According to John T. Edge ( Donuts, an American passion 2006 ) the alternative spelling “ donut ” was invented when the New York – based Display Doughnut Machine Corporation abbreviated the word to make it more pronounceable by the foreigners they hoped would buy their automated doughnut making equipment.

According to most ancient sources, Atreus was the father of Plisthenes, but in some lyric poets ( Ibycus, Bacchylides ) Plisthenides ( son of Plisthenes ) is used as an alternative name for Atreus himself.

According to Cook, the toponym Lydney derives from the Old English * Lydan-eġ, ‘ Lludd ’ s Island .’ However, alternative etymologies of Lydney are offered in other sources.

According to Walter Brueggemann, the task of prophetic ( Christian ) ministry is to nurture, nourish and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture.

According to Watters, urban tribes are groups of never-marrieds between the ages of 25 and 45 who gather in common-interest groups and enjoy an urban lifestyle, which offers an alternative to traditional family structures.

According to Frank Arjava Petter, Usui touched the diseased parts of the body, he massaged them, tapped them lightly, stroked them, blew on them, fixed his gaze upon them for two to three minutes, and specifically gave them energy, and used a technique commonly referred to as palm healing as a form of complementary and alternative medicine.

According to Kent, another reason why this happened so often in the USA then, was because some anti-Vietnam War protesters and political activists became worn out or disillusioned of the possibilities to change society through political means, and as an alternative turned to religious means.

According to the Critical Mass book, a similar project known as Courteous Mass is described as " an alternative to Critical Mass.

According to Stephen Jay Gould, if Lamarck had been aware of Darwin's proposed mechanism of natural selection, there is no reason to assume he would not have accepted it as a more likely alternative to his own mechanism.

According to the study conducted by Dr. Eric Ravussin, " Alternate-day fasting may be an alternative to prolonged diet restriction for increasing the life span ".

According to Roger Ebert's tongue-in-cheek Glossary of Movie Terms, the Down Under Rule " No film set in Australia is allowed to use the word Australia in its title where " Down Under " is an acceptable alternative.

According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented to " vocal or instrumental alternative music albums containing at least 51 % playing time of newly recorded music ", defining " alternative " as a " non-traditional " genre that exists " outside of the mainstream music consciousness ".

According to their oral traditions, some time after the arrival of the Lemba with the Ark, it self-destructed.

According to many traditions within Mahāyāna Buddhism, on the way to becoming a Buddha, a bodhisattva proceeds through ten, or sometimes fourteen, grounds or bhūmis.

According to Jewish and Christian traditions, authorship is assigned to the Prophet Jeremiah, who was ministering the Word of God during the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, during which the First Temple was destroyed and King Zedekiah was taken prisoner ( cf.

According to Mircea Eliade, the Middle Ages witnessed " an upwelling of mythical thought " in which each social group had its own " mythological traditions ".

According to some Jewish religious traditions, Hebrew was the language of the creation.

According to some scholars, All Hallows ' Eve initially incorporated traditions from pagan harvest festivals and festivals honoring the dead, particularly the Celtic Samhain ; other scholars maintain that the feast originated entirely independently of Samhain.

According to the Hebrew Testament, Hezekiah introduced religious reform and reinstated religious traditions.

According to historian Bernard Lewis, Islamism, ( or as he terms it " activist " Islam ), along with " quietism ," form two " particular ... political traditions " in Islam.

" According to Martin Noth, at the Southern Palestinian stage of the growth of the Pentateuch tradition, Isaac became established as one of the biblical patriarchs, but his traditions were receded in the favor of Abraham.

According to the traditions of the Congo River basin the Mokèlé-mbèmbé is a large territorial herbivore.

According to aboriginal oral traditions, as well as archaeological evidence, maple tree sap was being processed into syrup long before Europeans arrived in the region.

According to Eastern traditions, she retired to Ephesus with the Theotokos ( Mary, the Mother of God ) and there she died.

According to Western Christian belief, matzah was the bread used by Jesus in the Last Supper as there he was celebrating Passover ; Communion wafers used by Roman Catholics ( as well as in some Protestant traditions ) for the Eucharist are flat.

According Steve White, during the Putin presidency Russia made clear that it had no intention of establishing a " second edition " of the American or British political system, but rather a system that was closer to Russia's own traditions and circumstances.

According to oral traditions it was established in around 1400 when King Lukena Lua Nimi conquered the kingdom of Kabunga and established Mbanza Kongo as its capital.

According to very early traditions that are presumed to contain a good deal of historical truth, the edhilingui were the descendants of the Saxons who led the tribe out of Holstein and during the migrations of the sixth century.

According to Muslims, sharia law is founded on the words of Allah as revealed in the Quran, and traditions gathered from the life of the Prophet Muhammad.

According to some Jewish traditions ( e. g., B. Talmud Nedarim 32b ; Genesis Rabbah 46: 7 ; Genesis Rabbah 56: 10 ; Leviticus Rabbah 25: 6 ; Numbers Rabbah 4: 8.

According to later traditions, he had some adventures and founded Canusium and Argyrippa in Southern Italy.

According to some Christian and other mono-theistic traditions, God is not " all-powerful " because He is bound by specific laws and guidelines that are a part of His fundamental nature.

According to the University, the Latin motto Sidere mens eadem mutato can be translated as " Though the constellations change, the mind is universal ", therefore, conveying the aspiration that " the traditions of the older universities of the Northern Hemisphere are continued here in the Southern.

According to some Iranian mythological traditions, it was originally erected by Tahmuras Diveband, and afterward fell to ruin.

( According to some traditions, only olive oil is abstained from ; in others, all vegetable oils.

According to the commentary of the same scholar this does not refer to Jewish converts to Islam, rather the main corpus of the Jews, arguing that it refers to the traditions mentioned in the Bible: " His window being open in his chambers towards Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God as he gave aforetime.

According to most traditions, no blessing is recited at this point in the Seder, unlike the blessing recited over the washing of the hands before eating bread at any other time.