The idea of an artifact made conscious is an ancient theme of mythology, appearing for example in the Greek myth of Pygmalion, who carved a statue that was magically brought to life, and in medieval Jewish stories of the Golem, a magically animated homunculus built of clay.

" Golem " passed into Yiddish as goylem to mean someone who is clumsy or slow.

In some tales, ( for example those of the Golem of Chelm and the Golem of Prague ) a golem is inscribed with Hebrew words that keep it animated.

Moshe Idel comments, " This tradition in one form or another is the blueprint of the later legend of the creation of the Golem by Eliayahu's famous contemporary R. Yehudah Leow of Prague.

A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630 – 1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thus: " And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter Golem and form tzurah and it performed hard work for him, for a long period, and the name of emet was hanging upon his neck, until he finally removed it for a certain reason, the name from his neck and it turned to dust.

The general view of historians and critics is that the story of the Golem of Prague was a German literary invention of the early 19th century.

Cathy Gelbin finds an earlier source in Philippson's The Golem and the Adulteress, published in the Jewish magazine Shulamit in 1834, which describes how the Maharal sent a golem to find the reason for an epidemic among the Jews of Prague, although doubts have been expressed as to whether this date is correct.

The Vilna Gaon wrote an extensive commentary on the Sefer Yetzira, Kol HaTor, in which it is said that he had tried to create a Golem to fight the power of evil at the Gates of Jerusalem.

As far as we know, the Vilna Gaon is the only Rabbi who has actually claimed that he tried to create a Golem ; all such stories about other rabbis were told after their time.

The Golem is a popular figure in the Czech Republic.

Golem is also a rock / ground type creature ( Pokémon # 76 ) in the animated TV show, video game series, and card game Pokémon.

Expressionist influence is also in evidence in Frankenstein, drawn in part from the work of Paul Wegener and his films The Golem ( 1915 ) and The Golem: How He Came into the World ( 1920 ) along with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ) from Robert Wiene, which Whale reportedly screened repeatedly while preparing to shoot Frankenstein.

Rudolf is also the ruler in many of the legends of the Golem of Prague, either because of or simply adding to his occult reputation.

Dune also inspired the 1999 album The 2nd Moon by the German death metal band Golem, which is a concept album about the series.

The Maharal is the subject of a nineteenth-century legend that he created The Golem of Prague, an animate being fashioned from clay.

* In the 1951 movie The Emperor and the Golem, Edward Kelly is fake occultist and conspirator.

To a contemporary reader, there is also a similarity to the hubristic nature of the Golem legend, or to Frankenstein, in that even the most skilled of mortals cannot rival divine perfection when creating life.

God & Golem, Inc .: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion is a book written by MIT cybernetician Norbert Wiener and published by MIT Press in 1964.

Mount Korab (;, Golem Korab ) is the highest mountain of Albania and the Republic of Macedonia, its peak forming a frontier between the two countries.

" Aemeth " or " Emeth " is Hebrew for " truth "; the same word was written on the forehead of a Golem in Jewish folklore by magicians who legendarily animated these beings.

According to folklore, these scraps were used to hide the famed Golem of Prague, whose body is claimed to lie in the genizah of the Altneushul in Prague

In its earliest known modern form, the Golem of Chelm became enormous and uncooperative.

First published in serial form as Der Golem in 1913-14 in the periodical Die weissen Blätter, The Golem was published in book form in 1915 by Kurt Wolff, Leipzig.

The Phantom is her Golem form, which she has no control over ( mostly ).

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Rosenberg published Niflaos Maharal: Ha Golem Al Prague ( Wonders of the Maharal: The Golem of Prague ) ( Warsaw, 1909 ) which purported to be an eyewitness account by the Maharal's son-in-law, who had helped to create the Golem.

* Ceru: The Ceru are a race of blue, gnomish beings who were enslaved by the Golem, but broke free when the Golem's homeworld ( where the Ceru happened to be at the time ) got sucked into the Maelstrom.

The libretto of his first opera, Golem, based on the Jewish legend of Golem, was written by the composer in collaboration with Pierre Audi, who commissioned and directed the work for the 1989 Almeida Festival.

Captain Carrot arrests Tiffany Aching after a disturbance involving the Nac Mac Feegles in the King's Head, who are defeated by Wee Mad Arthur, another Feegle, ( the rat catcher from Feet of Clay who rescues Sgt Colon from the King Golem, although he was referred to as a gnome in the original novel ), who has now joined the watch, he tells Tiffany that she shall be escorted by his colleague, Captain Angua.

Once they return to Ocean Shores, the gang has their first encounter with Eric Golem Jr., who challenges Otto to a skating competition.

In Making Money, Adora Belle Dearheart tells Lord Vetinari that historically, cultures did not build Golems who could kill, and this implies that even modifying the Chem would not make a Golem able to kill.

After the Appellaxian Golem is destroyed by the Partner of The Light, Bruno and Whisper are found in a catatonic state having been silenced by Sportsmaster as a warning to anyone who challenges The Light.

The Pelter gang is soon acquired and tracked by a group of ECS agents ; Pelter and his crew take out the agents one-by-one, including their Golem Twenty agent — who is no match for the Golem Twenty-five Mr. Crane.

After investigating the forest near the lakes, they discover that the water is being used by Golem Industry robots to work giant power station shipping electricity to a " secret base " in the Wishing Waters theme park.

Once the gang return to Ocean Shores, they see the sand is back and believe the ordeal to be over, but out of the blue, a giant power station emerges from the deep sea and through a holographic projector, Eric Golem Jr. reveals himself to be the mastermind behind Golem Industries ' operations.

Arlen arrives and gets transported away with the brothers to the Queen's Chamber, where they defeat the Phantom, revealed to be the Golem housing the soul of Crowley's lost love Elma.

At this time they also find Grundy the Golem, whose talent is understanding any language.