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According to the myth, when Helios ' son Phaëton was killed
, his mourning sisters became poplars
, and their tears became
the origin
of elektron
, amber
.
According to biblical scholars
, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants
, is actually an aetiological
myth reflecting
the fact that there were four different groups among
the levites –
the Gershonites
, Kohathites
, Merarites
, and Aaronids ; Aaron –
the eponymous ancestor
of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother
to Gershon
, Kohath
, and Merari
, as
the narrative about
the birth
of Moses ( brother
of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute
to the earlier Elohist source
, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).
According to the standard modern text on
the work
, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth
of Aktaion: Literary
and Iconographic Studies
, the most likely original version
of the myth is that Actaeon was
the hunting companion
of the goddess who
, seeing her naked in her sacred spring
, attempts
to force himself on her
.
According to myth, the Comoros islands were first visited
by Phoenician sailors
.
According to the myth, cattle are slow-moving
, slow-witted
and weak-legged
, and can easily be pushed over without much force
, both because they have a high center
of gravity
, and because they sleep standing
.
According to Howard Schwartz
, "
the myth of the fall
of Lucifer " existed in fragmentary form in Isaiah 14: 12
and other ancient Jewish literature ; Schwartz claims that
the myth originated from "
the ancient Canaanite
myth of Athtar
, who attempted
to rule
the throne
of Ba ' al
, but was forced
to descend
and rule
the underworld instead ".
According to the New American Bible
, the image in Revelation 12: 1-6
of a pregnant woman in
the sky
, threatened
by a dragon
, " corresponds
to a widespread
myth throughout
the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued
by a horrible monster ;
by miraculous intervention
, she bore a son who
then killed
the monster ".
According to Every
, one example may be "
the myth of St
. George "
and other stories about saints battling dragons
, which were " modelled no doubt in many cases on older representations
of the creator
and preserver
of the world in combat with chaos ".
According to Bruce Lincoln
, the philosophes " made irrationality
the hallmark
of myth and constituted philosophy —
rather than
the Christian kerygma — as
the antidote for mythic discourse
.
According to Lorena Laura Stookey
, many myths feature sacred mountains as "
the sites
of revelations ": " In
myth, the ascent
of the holy mountain is a spiritual journey
, promising purification
, insight
, wisdom
, or knowledge
of the sacred ".
According to Mircea Eliade
, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with
the slaying
of dragons
, a theme which Eliade traces back
to "
the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic
myth "
of a battle between a divine hero
and a dragon
.
According to Mircea Eliade
, the medieval " Gioacchinian
myth [...]
of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number
of modern theories
of history
, such as those
of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views
to those
of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte
, Hegel
, and Schelling
, and has also influenced a number
of Russian writers
.
According to myth, taiko was started
by Ame no Uzume
, a shaman-like female deity
.
According to one version
of the legend
, Chūai's son was born three years after
the death
of Chūai
, which lends further support
to the notion that
the stories surrounding him are based on
myth rather than actual events
.
According to Schapiro
, "
the Anglo-Saxon taste for
the Hell Mouth was perhaps influenced
by the northern pagan
myth of the Crack
of Doom
and the battle with
the wolf
, who devoured Odin
.
According to the urbane retelling
of myth in Ovid's Metamorphoses
, for a long time
, a nymph named Echo had
the job
of distracting Hera from Zeus ' affairs
by leading her away
and flattering her
.
According to a
myth thought
to be
of ancient origins
, Iolaus was Heracles ' charioteer
and squire
.
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 the myth-ritual theory
, the existence
of myth is tied
to ritual
.
According to Smith
, people begin performing rituals for some reason that is not related
to myth ; later
, after they have forgotten
the original reason for a ritual
, they try
to account for
the ritual
by inventing a
myth and claiming that
the ritual commemorates
the events described in that
myth.
According and Old
According to The American Heritage Dictionary
of the English Language
, Asgard is derived from
Old Norse āss
, god + garðr
, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit
, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp
, enclose ( see cognates garden
and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in
the same work .</ ref >
According to the writer Timothy Dufort
, by 1969
, all Church
of England bishops had acquired
Old Catholic lines
of apostolic succession recognised
by the Holy See
.
According to scholars including Neil Forsyth
and John L
. McKenzie
, the Old Testament incorporates stories
, or fragments
of stories
, from extra-biblical mythology
.
According to tradition
, it was written around
the 6th century BC
by the sage Laozi ( or Lao Tzu
, "
Old Master "), a record-keeper
at the Zhou Dynasty court
, by whose name
the text is known in China
.
According to, the Śulba Sūtras contain "
the earliest extant verbal expression
of the Pythagorean Theorem in
the world
, although it had already been known
to the Old Babylonians
.
According to English philologist Walter William Skeat ( 1835-1912 ),
the origin is
to be found in
the name for a cask or liquid measure appearing in various forms in several Teutonic languages
, in Dutch oxhooft ( modern okshoofd ), Danish oxehoved
, Old Swedish oxhufvod
, etc
.
According to Greenberg
, Eurasiatic
and Amerind form a genetic node
, being more closely related
to each other than either is
to "
the other families
of the Old World ".
According to conservative estimates
, the introduction
of the potato was responsible for a quarter
of the growth in
Old World population
and urbanization between 1700
and 1900
.
According to Presbyterian
and Reformed Christians
, this theological framework is important
to the Biblical case for infant baptism because it provides a reason for thinking there is strong continuity between
the Old and New Testaments
.
According to Homer ( Odyssey iv: 412 ),
the sandy island
of Pharos situated off
the coast
of the Nile Delta was
the home
of Proteus
, the oracular
Old Man
of the Sea
and herdsman
of the sea-beasts
.
According to the later thirteenth century
Old French Continuation
of William
of Tyre
, Raynald captured Saladin's sister in a raid on a caravan
, although this claim is not attested in contemporary sources
, Muslim or Frankish
, instead stating that Raynald had attacked a preceding caravan
, and Saladin set guards
to ensure
the safety
of his sister
and her son
, who came
to no harm
.

* The Bible —
the Old Testament
According to Spike Milligan ( 1993 )
According to recent research
, the word dates from before
the sail was taken into use
by the Germanic peoples
of North-Western Europe
, because
the Old Frisian spelling shows that
the word was pronounced with a palatal k
and thus in all probability existed in North-Western Germanic before that palatalization happened
, i
. e
. in
the 5th century or before ( in
the western branch ).

* 4004 BC:
According to the Ussher chronology
, created
by James Ussher based on
the Old Testament
of the Bible
, this is when
the universe is created
at nightfall preceding October 23
.
According to Christopher Frayling's book Something
to do with Death
, Leone knew a great deal about
the American
Old West
.
According to most interpretations
of Matthew 5: 17
, 18
, 19
, and 20
, and most Christian views
of the Old Covenant
, these new interpretations
of the Law
and Prophets are not opposed
to the Old Testament
, which was
the position
of Marcion
, but form Jesus ' new teachings which bring about salvation
, and hence must be adhered
to, as emphasized in Matthew 7: 24-27 towards
the end
of the sermon
.
According to this view
, Old East Slavic diverged into Belarusian
and Ukrainian
to the west ( collectively
, the Ruthenian language
of the 15th
to 18th centuries ),
and Old Russian
to the north-east
, after
the political boundaries
of Kievan Rus ' were redrawn in
the 14th century
.
According to their point
of view
, the diversification
of the Old East Slavic language took place in
the 8th or early 9th century
.
According to historian Robert Brugger
, "...
the measure marked a notable departure from
Old World oppression
.
According to the mythic history in
the Samguk Yusa
, the Gojoseon (
Old Joseon ) was founded in northern Korea
and Manchuria in 2333 BCE
.
According to oral tradition
, new Austronesian clans ( Malays
, Javanese
, Bugis
, and Orang Laut ), historically referred
to in general
, regardless
of their native island
, as
the " Hova " ( from
Old Bugis uwa
, " commoner ") landed in
the North West
and East coast
of the island
.
According to Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla
, he was named Magnus ( Magnús in
Old Norse )
by Sigvatr Þórðarson
, his father's Icelandic skald
, after Charlemagne
, Carolus Magnus in Latin
.
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