`` But the point is '', Charlotte said, `` there he was, freezing, naked in a little stream of water at Ryusenji, all in worship of Fudo, the god of fire ''.

On the hillside above was caged what might have been an incarnation of Fudo, or perhaps a demon.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

He cut off Fudo's right hand but it was Jisai who saves the village and the boys ' lives when he takes Fudo down with one stroke.

This probably led to the further assertion that Acala / Fudo was to be identified with the closed-mouthed Nio statue represented by the hūm sound.

Panicked, the researchers decided to hide their bodies, but the research building was converted to the school grounds of Fudo High.

As detailed in a series of articles Barton-Wright produced for Pearson's Magazine between 1899 and 1901, Bartitsu was largely drawn from the Shinden Fudo Ryu jujutsu of sensei Terajima Kuniichiro ( not to be confused with the SFR taijutsu associated with the Bujinkan lineage ) and from Kodokan judo.

He is also associated with Fudo-Myo, an incarnation of Acala and the prayer mantra for Fudo Myo references him as the powerful wielder of the Vajra.

Watsuji's three main works were his two-volume 1954 History of Japanese Ethical Thought, his three-volume Rinrigaku ( Ethics ), first published in 1937, 1942, and 1949, and his 1935 Fudo.

* Ellen Schattschneider " Fudo Myoo ( Acala )"-In: immortal wishes ( 2003 )

# Fudo ( Acala ), 7th day

* Acala ( 不動明王, Fudo Myo-o, Bùdòng Míngwáng )

And the man who brought sweet potatoes into Kanto is buried there, next to a beautiful seated statue of Fudo.

Instead, he walked around the temple and mounted still another flight of stairs and stood before the seated Fudo at their head.

Suddenly he emptied his pockets of all his coins and dropped them into the box before the seated Fudo and hurried back down both stairways and away from the temple, never looking back.

File: Myochin-Suit of Armour with the Buddhist Deity Fudo Myo-o-Walters 51602. jpg | Late Edo period ( 1800s ) samurai armour.

Also, records identify him as Wo Ofu Ato-no-Hiko Fudo no Mikoto.

, or " unmoving mind ", is a conceptual attribute of the deity Fudo Myo-O, one of the five " Kings of Light " of Shingon Buddhism.

Together they plot to take down Fudo, a powerful swordsman who terrorizes the village by abducting girls just as they hit puberty.

Devilman is about a teenager named Akira Fudo.

His second possible reason for ninjatō being described as a staight bladed, rather short sword could be that the ninja were emulating one of the patron Buddhist deities of ninja families, Fudo Myo-oh, who is depicted brandishing a straight bladed short sword similar to a chokutō.

The examples " Fudo Masamune ", " Kyogoku Masamune ", and " Daikoku Masamune " are accepted as his genuine works.

The blade features an engraving of Fudo Myo-o, the buddhist deity which gives this blade its name.

# Smoke and Mirrors hits Kindaichi's high school when he and Miyuki are asked to join the school's Mystery Club and attempt to track down a series of urban legends called " The Seven Mysteries of Fudo High.

# The Murderer From Screen: The head of the movie club at Fudo High, grandson of Japan's king of cinema, offers Miyuki a starring role in his latest project.

The Seven Mysteries of Fudo High is a set of curses said to revolve around mysterious deaths and disappearances at the north campus building of Fudo High.

After a debate between the two deceased bards, the god brings Aeschylus back to life as more useful to Athens on account of his wisdom, rejecting Euripides as merely clever.

Considered the master shaper of the world, god of wisdom and of all magic, Enki was characterized as the lord of the Abzu ( Apsu in Akkadian ), the freshwater sea or groundwater located within the earth.

Enki / Ea is essentially a god of civilization, wisdom, and culture.

The god and goddess disguised themselves as a peasant and his wife, and taught the children wisdom.

The company website states that name " derives from Ahura Mazda, a god of the earliest civilizations in West Asia ... the god of wisdom, intelligence and harmony ..." Ahura Mazda is the Iranian – Zoroastrian God.

His face is presented along with other ancient figures such as Solomon, the Greek god Zeus and the Roman goddess of wisdom, Minerva.

Dr Philip Irving Mitchell of the Dallas Baptist University notes that some philosophers have cast the pursuit of theodicy as a modern one, as earlier scholars used the problem of evil to support the existence of one particular god over another, explain wisdom, or explain a conversion, rather than to justify God's goodness.

Sia represents the personification of wisdom or the god of wisdom in Ancient Egyptian Mythology.

In Norse mythology, the god Odin is especially known for his wisdom, often acquired through various hardships and ordeals involving pain and self-sacrifice.

Nabu is the Babylonian deity of wisdom, and son of the god Marduk.

The most important deities were: Zeus, the supreme god and ruler of the sky ; Hera, his wife and goddess of marriage ; Athena, goddess of wisdom ; Poseidon, god of the sea ; Demeter, goddess of the earth ; Apollo, god of the sun, law, reason, music and poetry ; Artemis, goddess of the moon, the hunt and the wilderness ; Aphrodite, goddess of love ; Ares, God of war ; Hermes, god of commerce and medicine, and Hephaestus, god of fire and metalwork.

Mictlantecuhtli ( left ), god of death, the lord of the Underworld and Quetzalcoatl ( right ), god of wisdom, life, knowledge, morning star, patron of the winds and light, the lord of the West.

In several temple reliefs in Ancient Egypt the Pharaoh is depicted being anointed by Horus ( sun god and " father " of Pharaoh ) and Thoth ( god of wisdom ), the oil of which is symbolically depicted as a stream of ankhs ( symbols of life ).

Thus, the Greek god of interpretive communication was combined with the Egyptian god of wisdom as a patron of astrology and alchemy.

" A common interpretation of the representation of " Trismegistus " as " thrice great " recalls the three characterizations of Idris: as a messenger of god, or a prophet ; as a source of wisdom, or hikmet ( wisdom from hokmah ); and as a king of the world order, or a " sultanate.