He chose a medieval legend of incest, Gregorius Vom Stein, and freely borrowed and parodied other myths of the West, mixing themes, language, peoples and times in a master myth in which the old forms continually renew themselves, as in his previous treatment of Joseph.

Various History — for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold.

Some scholars have argued that the calm, orderly, monotheistic creation story in Genesis 1 can be interpreted as a reaction against the creation myths of other Near Eastern cultures.

These eschatological myths appeared " in the Crusades, in the movements of a Tanchelm and an Eudes de l ' Etoile, in the elevation of Fredrick II to the rank of Messiah, and in many other collective messianic, utopian, and prerevolutionary phenomena ".

In The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming notes that, in the Bible story, as in other flood myths, the flood marks a new beginning and a second chance for creation and humanity.

Frankiel claims that these founding myths are " structurally equivalent " to the creation myths in other religions, because they are " the pivot around which the religion turns to and which it returns ", establishing the " meaning " of the religion and the " essential Christian practices and attitudes ".

In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

In some myths, Hephaestus built himself a " wheeled chair " or chariot with which to move around, thus helping him overcome his lameness while demonstrating his skill to the other gods.

It concludes that the closest parallels with Isaiah's description of the king of Babylon as a fallen morning star cast down from heaven are to be found not in any lost Canaanite and other myths but in traditional ideas of the Jewish people themselves, echoed in the Biblical account of the fall of Adam and Eve, cast out of God's presence for wishing to be as God, and the picture in of the " gods " and " sons of the Most High " destined to die and fall.

In the original myths and legends, lycanthropy is not given any specific cause other than being generally attributed to magic, which may be voluntary ( a supernatural power ) or involuntary ( a curse ).

The distinctive looking appendages ( often referred to as " devil's antlers ") are the source of several myths and legends among many groups of Inuit as well as several other tribes of indigenous peoples of North America.

According to one of the various myths about him, he founded Ife and dispatched his sons and daughters to establish similar kingdoms in other parts of what is today known as Yorubaland.

This and some other examples of apparent comparison between Greek myths and the " key characters " in the Old Testament / Torah have led recent biblical scholars to suggest a Hellenistic influence in the composition of the earlier portions of the Hebrew Bible.

It is unknown for sure to what this refers, but in myths where he is the son of Poseidon, it possibly refers to him being Poseidon's eldest son, older than Poseidon's other son, the sea-god Triton.

There are myths and theories to the same effect in other dialogues, in the Chariot allegory of the Phaedrus, in the Meno, Timaeus and Laws.

Such believers distinguish between religious fables or myths, on one hand, and those sacred narratives which are described by their tradition as being history or revelation, on the other.

These myths also express some hope that the idyllic state of affairs they describe is not irretrievably and irrevocably lost to mankind, that it can be regained in some way or other.

They are associated with Útgarða-Loki, a great and devious giant featured in one of the myths concerning Thor and the other Loki who compete in rigged competitions held in the Outyards.

Similar Chinese narratives state that if a vampire-like being came across a sack of rice, it would have to count every grain ; this is a theme encountered in myths from the Indian subcontinent, as well as in South American tales of witches and other sorts of evil or mischievous spirits or beings.

Mead is featured in many Germanic myths and folktales such as Beowulf, as well as in other popular works that draw on these myths.

Besides Adonis, other myths that appear in his work are those of Hyacinthus and the Cyclops ; to judge from references in the Epitaph on Bion, which frequently alludes to Bion's work, he also wrote a poem on Orpheus, to which some of the extant fragments may have belonged.

His colleague John Baines, on the other hand, says that temples may have kept written accounts of myths, which later were lost, and that Plutarch could have drawn on such sources to write his narrative.

In Hesiod and most other accounts, Theseus abandoned Ariadne sleeping on Naxos, and Dionysus rediscovered and wedded her.

:" Some of the Naxians also have a story of their own, that there were two Minoses and two Ariadnes, one of whom, they say, was married to Dionysos in Naxos and bore him Staphylos and his brother, and the other, of a later time, having been carried off by Theseus and then abandoned by him, came to Naxos, accompanied by a nurse named Korkyne, whose tomb they show ; and that this Ariadne also died there.

Upon arrival at Shaitana's house on the appointed day, Poirot is joined by three other guests: mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver, Scotland Yard's Superintendent Battle, and Colonel Race of His Majesty's Secret Service.

Special attention is given to Mr. Clancy, a detective novelist who enables Christie to include the same sort of parodies of her craft achieved in other novels through the character of Ariadne Oliver.

Books by Ariadne Oliver and by a number of other fictitious mystery writers are discussed by characters in The Clocks ( 1963 ).

One of Nadya ’ s friends from gymnasium, Ariadne Tyrkova, described Krupskaya as “ a tall, quiet girl, who did not flirt with the boys, moved and thought with deliberation, and had already formed strong convictions … She was one of those who are forever committed, once they have been possessed by their thoughts and feelings ….” Nadya briefly attended two different secondary schools before finding the perfect fit with Prince A. A. Obolensky's Female Gymnasium, “ a distinguished private girls ’ secondary school in Petersburg .” This education was probably more liberal than most other gymnasiums since it was noted that some of the staff were former revolutionaries.

The tenor's other recordings include: Wagner's Die Walküre ( with Birgit Nilsson and Hans Hotter, conducted by Sir Georg Solti, 1965 ); Puccini's Tosca ( excerpts in German, opposite Anja Silja, conducted by Lorin Maazel, 1966 ); Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1968 ); Fidelio ( 1969 ); Wagner's Lohengrin ( 1971 ); Puccini's Madama Butterfly ( with Maria Chiara, 1972 ); Saint-Saëns ' Samson and Delilah ( 1973 ); Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1977 ); Hindemith's Mathis der Maler ( with Fischer-Dieskau and William Cochran, 1979 ); Franz Schmidt's Notre Dame ( 1988 ); and, from the Bayreuth Festival, Die Walküre ( with Nilsson and Theo Adam, 1967 ) and Parsifal ( with Dame Gwyneth Jones, led by Pierre Boulez, 1970 ).

In 1989, Keenlyside joined the roster of Scottish Opera, where he stayed until 1994, performing as, among other roles, Marcello ( La bohème ), Danilo ( The Merry Widow ), Harlequin ( Ariadne auf Naxos ), Guglielmo ( Così fan tutte ), Figaro ( Barber of Seville ), Billy Budd ( Billy Budd ), Papageno ( Zauberflöte ) and Belcore ( L ' elisir d ' amore ).

Leo I wife Verina bore him at least two daughters, one of whom married the son of Anthemius, whom Leo I installed as Emperor in the West in 467 ( and whose daughter married the formidable " Shadow Emperor " Ricimer ), and the other of whom was Ariadne, who married the Isaurian leader Tarasikodissa ; Tarasikodissa was appointed master of the soldiers and adopted the name Zeno.

When Labrys ' shadow is defeated, and she accepts her other self, she will gain the Persona, Ariadne.

Her other siblings on father's side are Janette, Mary Paz, Ariadne and Rafael II.

He was married several other times, to actresses Ariadne Welter, and Sonia Infante -- the latter for 18 years ) and had 20 other children, most of them in Mexico city and Guadalajara.

Together with her and a few other allies, including Nina and her daughter Ariadne, he reaches the secret cave where the incomplete tablet is stored.

* 1983 – Mona Mahmudnizhad together with nine other Bahá ' í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her Bahá ' í Faith.

Eight other conspirators or suspects were tried and convicted, and four were hanged shortly thereafter.

Gabriel and 26 other enslaved people who participated were all hanged for treason.

On 29 April 1945, the corpses of Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and other Fascist leaders were infamously hanged in Piazzale Loreto, where a year before fifteen antifascists had been executed.

Although the Greeks were allowed to settle in St. Augustine as free persons, many had already died and two of their leaders were hanged by the English as an example to other indentured servants and slaves.

Poundmaker and Big Bear were sentenced to prison, and eight other Aboriginal leaders were hanged.

They were kept in cold and starving conditions many with dysentery or other illnesses and the weakest were often beaten to death, shot, guillotined, or hanged, while the others were subjected to torture by the Germans.

Moreover, other Nuremberg defendants in positions similar to Speer's were hanged, most notably Fritz Sauckel, who actually worked under Speer's orders.

Thus Kybalchych and other Narodnaya Volya plotters including Sophia Perovskaya, Andrei Zhelyabov, Nikolai Rysakov and Timofei Mikhailov were hanged on April 3, 1881.

Collingbourne was subsequently hanged, drawn and quartered for this and other treasonable activities.

Theodore Schurch, hanged for treachery the next day, was the last person to be executed for an offence other than murder ; he was executed at Pentonville.

Since the other two women did not confess, Good was hanged, and Osborne died in prison.

In common with privateers of other nationalities, however, they were often considered pirates by their foreign opponents, and could be hanged as pirates if captured by the foreigners they preyed on.

For many years, it has been presumed he was hanged on May 23, 1304, along with three other young clerics of Notre Dame, including Oudinet Pisdoé, for " debauchery " and " crimes against women " ( Hoppin, p. 368 ).

* Joe Brady and four other members of the Irish National Invincibles gang who murdered Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, the Permanent Under-Secretary for Ireland, with surgical knives in Dublin's Phoenix Park ; they were hanged at Kilmainham Jail in Dublin in 1883.

Gabriel, his two brothers, and 23 other slaves were hanged.

Four other bushrangers were hanged with him, including Thomas Jeffries the cannibal.

After Mackevičius refused to betray other leaders of the uprising, he was hanged on December 28, 1863,

Vlasov and several other leaders of the ROA were tried and hanged in Moscow on August 1, 1946.

He appears antlered, sometimes beneath the tree on which he was hanged, known as " Herne's Oak ", but more often riding his horse, accompanied by other wild huntsmen and the captured souls of those he has encountered on his journey.

On 11 April 1661, diarist Samuel Pepys mentions passing under " the man that hangs upon Shooters Hill " ( probably a highwayman hanged and left to rot as a warning to other criminals-at ' Gibbet Field ', now part of the local golf-course ).

The mayor of Meaux and other prominent men of the city were hanged.

Accused of assuming royal power and of various other high misdemeanours, he was condemned without trial and ignominiously hanged at Tyburn on 29 November 1330, his vast estates forfeited to the crown.

No pardon was issued and she was publicly hanged on July 4, 1946 at Biskupia Gorka along with the ten other SS supervisors and kapos.