Virgil imagines the Cyclopes in Hephaestus ' forge, who " busily burnished the aegis Athene wears in her angry moods — a fearsome thing with a surface of gold like scaly snake-skin, and he linked serpents and the Gorgon herself upon the goddess's breast — a severed head rolling its eyes.

In 716, Qapaghan Qaghan the second khaghan of the khaganate was killed in his campaign against Toquz Oghuz and his severed head was sent to Chang ' an.

For example, a shot of a zombie getting its head cut off may, for instance, start with a view of an axe being swung through the air, followed by a close-up of the actor swinging it, then followed by a cut back to the now severed head.

His cadaver was taken to the public Plaza Mayor of Cuzco and displayed as a sign of defeat and his severed head as a warning to other would-be rebels.

The executioner brings his axe down, and the queen's severed head drops onto the ground.

At the least, fifteen per cent of all Hungarian personal arms bear a severed Turk's head, referring to their wars against the Ottoman Empire.

Other authors had their own ideas: Robert de Boron portrayed it as the vessel of the Last Supper ; and Peredur had no Grail per se, presenting the hero instead with a platter containing his kinsman's bloody, severed head.

Several different locations claim to possess the severed head of John the Baptist.

The oldest known naturally mummified human corpse is a severed head dated as 6, 000 years old, found in 1936 at the site named Inca Cueva No. 4 in South America.

In Norse mythology, Odin took the severed head of the mythical god Mimir to Asgard for consultation as an oracle.

and he is invoked against storm and lightning and represented by: Vine and grapes ; a fallen idol beneath broken column ; a scourge ; a stake and his severed head.

An alcohol-soaked fever dream involving revenge, greed and murder in the Mexican countryside, the film featured Warren Oates as a thinly disguised self-portrait of Peckinpah, and co-starred a leather bag containing the severed head of a gigolo being sought by a Mexican patrone for one million dollars.

Conservation techniques for organic material were insufficiently advanced in the early 1950s for the entire body to be preserved, therefore, the forensic examiners suggested the head be severed and the rest of the body remain unpreserved.

Decebalus fled but, rather than being captured by the Roman cavalry, committed suicide, and his severed head was exhibited in Rome on the steps leading up to the Capitol.

A back view of a samurai with a tachi in armor wearing a sashimono, holding a spear and a severed head.

Alone, he finds a severed pig head, left by Jack as an offering to the beast.

* March 2 – In London, a night watchman finds a severed head by the Thames ; it is later recognized to be that of the husband of Catherine Hayes.

Arminius immediately sent Varus ' severed head to Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, the other most powerful Germanic ruler with the offer of an anti-Roman alliance.

Dillinger was struck three ( or four, according to some historians ) times, with two bullets entering the chest, one of them nicking his heart, and the fatal shot-which entered Dillinger through the back of his neck, severed his spinal cord and tore through his brain before exiting out the front of his head just under his right eye.

They've recently found a living severed head buried in the Barrier, which they believe can turn the tide of the war with the Fallen Lords.

For his involvement, Catiline was accused of killing his former brother-in-law Marcus Marius Gratidianus, carrying this man ’ s severed head through the streets of Rome and then having Sulla add him to the proscription to make it legal.

David hoists the severed head of Goliath.

Blackbeard's severed head hanging from Maynard's bowsprit

In the case of decapitation, it also sometimes took repeated blows to sever the head completely, and it was also very likely that the condemned would slowly bleed to death before the head could be fully severed.

* Traumatic amputation ( an unwanted amputation that occurs at the scene of an accident, where the limb is partially or wholly severed as a direct result of the accident, for example a fingertip that is cut off by a meat grinder ).

In Christian iconography, some works of art depict women with their breasts in their hands or on a platter, signifying that they died as a martyr by having their breasts severed ; one example of this is Saint Agatha of Sicily.

Like Snorri's Hel, she is terrifying to in appearance, black or dark in colour, usually naked, adorned with severed heads or arms or the corpses of children, her lips smeared with blood.

An idol of Hubal said to have been near the Kaaba is described as shaped like a human with the right hand severed and replaced with a golden hand.

A common belief is that if a knife is given as a gift, the relationship of the giver and recipient will be severed.

As Hungary is landlocked ( its coastline was severed after World War I ), Lake Balaton is often affectionately called the " Hungarian Sea ".

When a peripheral fiber is severed, the myelin sheath provides a track along which regrowth can occur.

* 1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand.

It is not clear if Pepin himself wielded the scissors, but after a brief struggle the king's hair was severed.

Although most injury responses include a calcium influx signaling to promote resealing of severed parts, axonal injuries initially lead to acute axonal degeneration ( AAD ), which is rapid separation of the proximal and distal ends within 30 minutes of injury.

It is often possible for peripheral axons to regrow if they are severed.

Today this section is called Alte Potsdamer Straße, a pedestrianised cul-de-sac severed by post-World War II developments and subsequently by-passed by a new section-the Neue Potsdamer Straße, leading due west and then curving southwards to rejoin its old course at the Potsdam Bridge, over the Landwehrkanal.

A quagga appears in a sequence in the Soviet Union's animated film The Cat Who Walked by Herself, in which a dog tracks the hoofprints of one, and a cat tells a boy of the Red Book of endangered species, and how Quagga had " her track severed " ( that is, made extinct ) due to Man's selfish actions.

Cronus threw the severed testicles into the Sea ( Thalassa ), around which foam developed and transformed into the goddess of Love, Aphrodite ( which is why in some myths, Aphrodite was daughter of Uranus and the goddess Thalassa ).

" The university is no longer affiliated with any church, having severed formal ties in 1952.

Though in most species at least part of the disc is needed for complete regeneration, in a few species of sea stars a single severed arm can grow into a complete individual over a period of several months.

It has been suggested that this battle finally severed the land connection between Wales and the kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd (" Old North "), the Brythonic-speaking regions of what is now southern Scotland and northern England, including Rheged, Strathclyde, Elmet and Gododdin, where Old Welsh was also spoken.

There are also accounts of a blood-curdling scream issuing from Louis after the blade fell but this is unlikely, since the blade severed Louis's spine.

Citizens of the Culture refer to a normal human as " human-basic " and the vast majority opt for significant enhancements ; severed limbs grow back, sexual physiology can be voluntarily changed from male to female and back ( though the process itself takes time ), sexual stimulation and endurance are strongly heightened in both sexes ( something that is often subject of envious debate among other species ), pain can be switched off, toxins can be bypassed away from the digestive system, automatic functions such as breathing or heart rate can be switched to conscious control, and bones and muscles adapt quickly to changes in gravity without the need to exercise.