According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to Porphyrion, the hymn to Hermes was imitated by Horace in one of his own ' sapphic ' odes ( C. 1. 10: Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis ).

According to the Homeric hymn, the goddesses who assembled to be witnesses at the birth of Apollo were responding to a public occasion in the rites of a dynasty, where the authenticity of the child must be established beyond doubt from the first moment.

According to a hymn of Callimachus, they were Hephaestus ' helpers at the forge.

According to his reading of the painting, the scene was inspired by the text in a Homeric hymn published in Florence in 1488 by the Greek refugee Demetrios Chalkokondyles:

According to MacIntyre, Bishop's account was that he based the song on an earlier hymn he had written for, or in mockery of, a pious brother-in-law, taking from this earlier song the " glory hallelujah " chorus, the phrase " to be a soldier in the army of the Lord ", and the tune.

According to MacIntyre, this hymn became popular at religious meetings in Maine.

According to church tradition, newly ordained priests are given new names, and Soghomon was renamed Komitas ( named after the seventh-century Armenian catholicos who was also a hymn writer ).

According to the Guinness Book of World Records it is the lowest recorded note ever produced by the human voice, first accomplished by Sumner in a 1966 recording of the hymn " Blessed Assurance.

Annie Lane was author of To Thee, O Country ( national hymn ) and of the books Brown's Retreat, Kitwyk ( published by John Lane in 1903 ), The Champagne Standard, Talk of the Town and According to Maria.

According to Carl Czerny, the second movement of the quartet occurred to Beethoven as he contemplated the starry sky and thought of the music of the spheres ( Thayer, Life of Beethoven ); it has a hymnlike quality reminiscent of a much later devotion, the " Heiliger Dankgesang " hymn to the Divine in the Quartet Op.

According to legend, Francis dictated the hymn Cantico del Sole in the eighteenth year of his penance, almost rapt in ecstasy ; doubts remain about its authenticity.

According to legend Augustus Montague Toplady was inspired to write the hymn Rock of Ages while sheltering under a rock in the combe, although recent scholars have disputed this claim.

According to a royal hymn composed in his honor, he was born “ in the mountains that nobody knows ,” suggesting he may have been born in exile, or perhaps a literary device, as it continues: “ I was without understanding and I prayed not of your majesty .” It relates that, when Ištar appointed him to the kingship, he had restored her overthrown cult.

Annie Eichberg Lane was author of To Thee, O Country ( national hymn ) and of the books Brown's Retreat, Kitwyk, The Champagne Standard, Talk of the Town and According to Maria.

According to the Athenian rhetorician Isocrates, Demeter's greatest gifts to humankind were agriculture, particularly of cereals, and the Mysteries which give the initiate higher hopes in this life and the afterlife.

According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

According to Tacitus, Agrippina ’ s eldest daughter Agrippina the Younger had written memoirs for posterity.

According to Nicephorus Gregoras, Andronikos also had an illegitimate daughter, Irene Palaiologina of Trebizond.

According to Diodorus, he was father of six sons by Cyane, daughter of Liparus ( the eponym of the island Lipara, whom Aeolus assisted in conquering lands above Surrentum, Italy ).

According to an account Smith published in 1624, he was going to be put to death until the chief's daughter, Pocahontas, saved him.

According to mythology, Diana was born with her twin brother Apollo on the island of Delos, daughter of Jupiter and Latona.

According to Bio TV, Dave claims himself that people nicknamed his daughter " Wenda.

According to the Book of Hosea, he married the prostitute Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, at God's command.

According to myth, Imhotep's mother was a mortal named Kheredu-ankh, elevated later to semi-divine status by claims that she was the daughter of Banebdjedet.

According to his daughter, his last words were " Da jitt et nix zo kriesche!

According to some Hindu mythological accounts, the god Krishna obtained the Syamantaka from Jambavanta, whose daughter Jambavati later married Krishna.

According to the story, after the king asked his daughter Miaoshan to marry the wealthy man, she told him that she would obey his command, so long as the marriage eased three misfortunes.

According to one hypothesis there was another daughter of Mieszko, married to a Pomeranian Slavic Prince ; she could be a daughter of Dobrawa or of one of the previous pagan wives.

According to some accounts, Midas had a son, Lityerses, the demonic reaper of men, but in some variations of the myth he instead had a daughter, Zoë or " life ".

According to the former, he married a Greek princess, Damodice daughter of Agamemnon of Cyme, Aeolia, and traded extensively with the Greeks.

According to Pausanias, Pelarge the daughter of Potnieus, was connected with the cult of Demeter in the Cabeirian ( potniai ).

According to Silius Italicus, she was the virginal daughter of Bebryx, a king in Mediterranean Gaul by whom the hero Hercules was given hospitality during his quest to steal the cattle of Geryon during his famous Labors.

According to Livy, he reigned for 44 years, until murdered by his treacherous daughter Tullia and son-in-law Tarquinius Superbus.

According to the 1860 census, her household in Harmonia included her daughter, Elizabeth Banks ( age 35 ), and her grandsons James Caldwell ( misspelled as " Colvin "; age 16 ) and Sammy Banks ( age 8 ).

According to Foster " when he duly asked Maud to marry him, and was duly refused, his thoughts shifted with surprising speed to her daughter.

According to Orderic Vitalis, Harold was at some time betrothed to Adeliza, a daughter of William, Duke of Normandy, later William the Conqueror ; if so, the betrothal never led to marriage.

According to Nikolai Baumgarten, Vladimir was married to the daughter of count Loepold of Staden, Ode.

According to biographer Jean Pierre Lion, " Bix was accused of having taken this man's five-year-old daughter into a garage and committing on her an act qualified by the police report as ' lewd and lascivious.

According to this record, Ong Sum Ping didn't become Sultan, but his daughter was married to the Sultan, and he became the Sultan's father-in-law.

The Siren, by John William Waterhouse ( circa 1900 ), depicted as a fish-chimera. According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses V, 551 ), the Sirens were the companions of young Persephone and were given wings by Demeter to search for Persephone when she was abducted.

According to the followers of Orphism, Zeus had lain with Persephone — who, by the tradition ascribed to Orpheus, was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter — in the form of a serpent.

; Persephone: According to the novel, Persephone is the tenth planet ( a Planet X ) of our solar system.