Acantha, was the spirit of the acanthus tree, and Apollo had one of his other liaisons with her.

The huge pine tree that still stands at the top of Doon Hill is said to contain Kirk's imprisoned spirit.

The symbolism regarding the tree of life, according to Emanuel Swedenborg, reflects the perception of our mind ( or spirit, which is the same thing according to Swedenborg's phylosophy ).

" () In the tree of life is associated with calmness: " A soothing tongue is a tree of life ; but perverseness therein is a wound to the spirit.

File: Ninhursag1. jpg | Ninhursag with the spirit of the forests next to the seven-spiked cosmic tree of life.

: Δρυάς ) is a tree nymph, that is a female spirit of a tree, in Greek mythology.

The bullroarer must be cut from a tree which contains his spirit for it to work.

Other meanings have been suggested over the years and are listed on the borough's website, including an Indian word for running water, a cleft in the rock or under the rock or hollow rock, the word " hohokes ", signifying the whistle of the wind against the bark of trees, the Chihohokies Indians whose chief lived here, the Dutch Hoog Akers for " high acorns " or Hoge Aukers, Dutch for " high oaks ", the Indian word hoccus meaning " fox ", or woakus, " gray fox ", or that the " Ho " part means joy or spirit, and the rest of the name from " hohokes ," meaning a kind of bark of a tree.

Tristran talks to a tree who says that Pan, the spirit of the forest, told her to help him.

She explains that as long as her remains are buried at the foot of the tree, her spirit will be forever enslaved by Tree Demoness.

Afterwards, the bear's skull was hung high upon a pine tree so its spirit could re-enter the heavens.

He came to fame because he would collect the old broken bodies of dolls from the canals and rubbish tips, and then hang them from branches and tie them to tree trunks to keep away evil spirits and appease the spirit of a dead girl he had found in the canal a few years before.

The evil spirit inhabiting the woods using tree limbs and branches to ensnare, strip, and rape her, " entering " ( i. e. possessing ) her through the sexual act in a way very similar to that in which tentacles are normally depicted.

" Other Chinese names for Ganoderma include ruizhi 瑞芝 " auspicious mushroom ", shenzhi 神芝 " divine mushroom " ( with shen " spirit ; god ' supernatural ; divine "), mulingzhi 木靈芝 ( with " tree ; wood "), xiancao 仙草 " immortality plant " ( with xian "( Daoism ) transcendent ; immortal ; wizard "), and lingzhicao 靈芝草 or zhicao 芝草 " mushroom plant ".

* Zeliboba ( Зелибоба ), a 9-foot furry blue tree spirit who enjoys dancing and can smell music.

* the metaphorical reference to the spirit ( s ) of the tree ( s ), or a meeting place between the elements of air and earth or spirit and earth.

Most terrible of all the forest spirits, however, is the, which results when an exalted spirit makes the choice to bind itself permanently to a tree.

The Japanese word sakaki is written 榊 with a kanji character that combines ki 木 " tree ; wood " and kami 神 " spirit ; god ", depicting " sacred tree ; divine tree ".

Symbolized by a candle flame, the spirit of the Wells connection is passed from alumni to students, signifying the support that Wells students give one another throughout their lives.

Wells often feature in Welsh and Irish mythology as gateways to the spirit world.

His science fiction depicted grand and unlikely voyages through our solar system in the spirit of Wells or Jules Verne, though his explorers donned space suits remarkably prescient in their design.

Wells ' The Sleeper Awakes ( 1899, 1910 ) predicted the spirit of the 20th century: technically advanced, undemocratic and bloody.

* Homecoming Weekend, Established: 1923 — Homecoming features alumni reunion activities, sporting events, and a class spirit competition.

" We Are Racers " is intended to create a sense of unparalleled belonging, an acknowledgement of a special school spirit, and increased allegiance with Racer alumni.

Specifically, the association was founded " to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor upon their Alma Mater by distinguished scholarship and exemplary character as students in engineering, or by their attainments as alumni in the field of engineering, and to foster a spirit of liberal culture in engineering colleges.

Many students in each university come to this event to cheer for their teams, and the event has a significant meaning as many influential alumni of each school are very interested in the result for the sake of their school spirit.

This spirit is often maintained through college-based alumni organizations.

Today, the Alumni Association represents nearly 20, 000 alumni and continues to foster a spirit of unity and fellowship through communications, development, publicity, special events, recruiting, and career exploration.

Many of the academy's past alumni have formed a theatre company dedicated to keeping the original spirit of the school alive.

Furthermore, very important for the school's spirit and an indication of its special status is its scholarship program ( funded by the parents associations and the alumni club SAKA ) which has given numerous students from all socioeconomic layers the opportunity to study there.

A committee of alumni judge all performances in addition to each class's overall spirit to determine the winner.

Into the emptiness of the street, and his spirit, moved a form.

Pausing in the doorway he said: `` The form of the human female, unlike her mind and her spirit, is the most challenging loveliness in all nature ''.

The equally ardent proponent of freedom from any kind of censorship may find the nude human form the `` natural, honest, free expression of man's spirit and the epitome of beauty and inspiration ''.

Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.

* Camu camu Gigante: Head spirit comes in the form of a large dark skinned giant.

The Minḥat Ḳenaot is instructive reading for the historian because it throws much light upon the deeper problems which agitated Judaism, the question of the relation of religion to the philosophy of the age, which neither the zeal of the fanatic nor the bold attitude of the liberal-minded could solve in any fixed dogmatic form or by any anathema, as the independent spirit of the congregations refused to accord to the rabbis the power possessed by the Church of dictating to the people what they should believe or respect.

The rhyming songs, poems and tales written in the form of ballads often relate to the itinerant and rebellious spirit of Australia in The Bush, and the authors and performers are often referred to as bush bards.

The spirit drains Macbeth's manhood along with the blood from his cheeks ; as soon as Banquo's form vanishes, Macbeth announces: " Why, so ; being gone, / I am a man again.

They are taking form in independent bookstores, coffeehouses, local pubs, and through new and innovative means to create the social capital needed to foster the sense and spirit of community.

The American poet Adelaide Crapsey invented the modern form, known as American Cinquain inspired by Japanese haiku and tanka, akin in spirit to that of the Imagists

It was developed as Dublin's cultural quarter and does retain this spirit as a centre for small arts productions, photographic and artists ' studios, and in the form of street performers and small music venues.

Japanese fascist Nakano Seigo advocated that Japan follow the Italian and German models, which were " a form of more democratic government going beyond democracy " which itself had " lost its spirit and decayed into a mechanism which insists only on numerical superiority without considering the essence of human beings.

It appears that these teachers taught a form of docetism in which Jesus came to earth as a spirit without a real body of flesh ( 4. 2 ) that his death on the cross was not as a true atonement for sins ( 1. 7 ).

Though grammatical gender has no bearing on actual gender in non-personal nouns, the term holy spirit translates in and is used in the masculine form in all the Qur ' an.

According to Daniel Boyarin, the underlying distinction between religion and ethnicity is foreign to Judaism itself, and is one form of the dualism between spirit and flesh that has its origin in Platonic philosophy and that permeated Hellenistic Judaism.

While continuing his traditional neoclassical design practice Mies began to develop visionary projects that, though mostly unbuilt, rocketed him to fame as an architect capable of giving form that was in harmony with the spirit of the emerging modern society.

Lycanthropy is often confused with transmigration ; but the essential feature of the were-animal is that it is the alternative form or the double of a living human being, while the soul-animal is the vehicle, temporary or permanent, of the spirit of a dead human being.

Elsewhere the possession of a tutelary spirit in animal form is the privilege of the magician.

In the beginning, in Syria and then in Egypt, Christians felt called to a more reclusive or eremitic form of monastic living ( in the spirit of the " Desert Theology " for the purpose of spiritual renewal and return to God ).

There, he or she would receive a vision of a spirit that would take the form of a mammal or bird.

Chapman describes Oxford as " Rare and most absolute " in form and says he was " of spirit passing great / Valiant and learn ’ d, and liberal as the sun ".

Among Latter-day Saints the idea of " spirit birth " was described in its modern doctrinal form in 1909, when the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the following statement:

* Red Book ( Jung ), a book by Carl Jung, which had Philemon, a wise spirit guide in form of an elderly winged man

** a ghost, the spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living

Another form of sacrifice involves the burning of Joss paper, or Hell Bank Notes, on the assumption that images thus consumed by the fire will reappear — not as a mere image, but as the actual item — in the spirit world, making them available for revered ancestors and departed loved ones.