This story was later retold with more detail by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, conflating the personage of Ambrosius with the Welsh tradition of Merlin the visionary, known for oracular utterances that foretold the coming victories of the native Celtic inhabitants of Britain over the Saxons and the Normans.

He was critical of the Bahá ' ís referring to him as a holy personage, asking them not to celebrate his birthday or have his picture on display.

Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe.

An eighth member was acquired temporarily a little later in 2007, when Monet rescued ( or abducted, depending on your viewpoint ) a French orphan girl named Nicole with the reluctant help of Siryn and the clandestine help of a mysterious hooded personage of great power, and took her back to America.

" Aparelled all in white ... the proportions and lineaments of his body " made such an impression that he was accounted " the goodliest looking male personage in England " by the onlookers.

There has even been a suggestion of a link between the name " Sheba " and that of Zanzibar, and a massive earthenware monument of the Yoruba people all the way in West Africa known as Sungbo's Eredo actually caused mild excitement when it was first studied by Western scholars due to the tribal folk tradition that the divine personage it was built in honour of was none other than the Queen of Sheba herself.

An executor of Henry VIII's will and the recipient of valuable grants of land, Herbert was a prominent and powerful personage during the reign of Edward VI, both the protector Somerset and his rival, John Dudley, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, angling for his support.

Karl Kerenyi ( and Robert Graves ) theorizes that Ariadne ( whose name they derive from Hesychius ' listing of Άδνον, a Cretan-Greek form for arihagne, " utterly pure ") was a Great Goddess of Crete, " the first divine personage of Greek mythology to be immediately recognized in Crete ", once archaeology had begun.

In Greek mythology, King Laius, or Laios () of Thebes was a divine hero and key personage in the Theban founding myth.

" Harold T. Davis confirms that " assiduous research has failed to identify Catherine with any historical personage " and has theorized that Catherine was an invention inspired to provide a counterpart to the story of the slightly later pagan philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria ( ca.

Ninus (), according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was accepted as the eponymous founder of Nineveh ( also called Νίνου πόλις " city of Ninus " in Greek ), Ancient capital of Assyria, although he does not seem to represent any one personage known to modern history, and is more likely a conflation of several real and / or fictional figures of antiquity, as seen to the Greeks through the mists of time.

In the Talmudic period, some seemed to have denied that Samson was a historic figure and was regarded by such individuals as a purely mythological personage.

Everything from the manner of address to the behaviour of a person on meeting that personage was surrounded by traditional symbols.

But even if he was not the notorious villain he would later become, his appearances in the Welsh Triads and genealogies show he was at least a well known personage.

He was induced many years ago to admit that Simon Magus was a real personage, though he persists that in the Clementines he is meant for St. Paul.

Krishnamurti was also concerned about his legacy, about being unwittingly turned into some personage whose teachings had been handed down to special individuals, rather than the world at large.

He is, in fact, a Grand Sheikh of the Sufi Tariqa ..." Privately, however, writing to a friend, Graves confessed that this was " misleading: he is one of us, not a Moslem personage.

When she was about 14 or 15, a divine personage appeared to her in a dream and instructed her to eat powdered mica, in order that her body might become etherealized and immune from death.

" Rorik is the form we would expect Hreðric to take in Danish and we find personages named Rorik or Hrok or similar in most version of the Hrólf Kraki tradition but differently accounted for, seemingly indicating that Scandinavian tradition had forgotten who exactly Hreðric / Rorik / Hrok was and various story tellers subsequently invented details to explain references to this personage in older poems.

Initially, he praised the work he was doing, boasting of " what a great, broad-shouldered, elephantine personage I shall become by and by!

But it is only the name that can be said to be specially Valentinian ; the personage intended by it corresponds more or less closely with the Yaldabaoth of the Ophites, the great Archon of Basilides, the Elohim of Justinus, etc.

Fox is described by Ellwood as " graceful in countenance, manly in personage, grave in gesture, courteous in conversation ".

Instead of being seen as an active external force of unconditional love and salvation, the personage of Guanyin is highly revered as the principle of compassion, mercy and love.

In the context of library science, a manuscript is defined as any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive ; for example, a library's collection of the letters or a diary that some historical personage wrote.

Another mythical personage of the name of Persephione is called a daughter of Minyas and the mother of Chloris, a nymph of spring, flower and new growth.

# Physical presence, arrival – The main use is the physical presence of a person, which where that person is not already present refers to the prospect of the physical arrival of that person, especially the visit of a royal or official personage and sometimes as an extension of this usage, a formal " occasion ".

These scholars emphasize the appearance of " man of sin " in the second chapter of this letter, whether this personage is identified with the Antichrist of 1 John and Revelation, or with a historical person like Caligula.

They mistake him at first for Godot and clearly do not recognise him for the self-proclaimed personage he is.

The baton's final bearer is usually a famous sporting personage of the host nation.

Cato is the first known literary personage to use it.

:: The worst situation is when the personage is with full knowledge on the point of doing the deed, and leaves it undone.

* Alcathous, another, otherwise unknown personage of this name is mentioned by Virgil.

In Māori mythology, Rehua is a very sacred personage, who lives in Te Putahi-nui-o-Rehua in Rangi-tuarea, the tenth and highest of the heavens in some versions of Māori lore.

* Iyale-Depending on inflection or spelling, the term could either refer to the senior wife in a polygamous household ( Iyá Ilé, or iyálé, when contracted ) meaning " mother of the household "; or to a communal female personage who is a custodian of secrets and is therefore wise ( Iyá Ilè, iyálè when contracted ), meaning " Earth Mother ".

While neither of them has any connection with that remote part of Wales, the personage of Vortigern is best known to us because of this tale.

As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a historical personage.

While Nicolas Bourbaki is an invented personage, the Bourbaki group is officially known as the Association des collaborateurs de Nicolas Bourbaki ( Association of Collaborators of Nicolas Bourbaki ), which has an office at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

In an 1884 account, William also stated that when Joseph first saw the light above the trees in the grove, he fell unconscious for an undetermined amount of time, after which he awoke and heard " the personage whom he saw " speak to him.

A particular personage, who is also mentioned in Dubliners and Ulysses, and alluded to in Finnegans Wake, is the Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell.

They also assert that a medieval system of walls and ditches, known as the eredo, that was built by their ancestors over the course of the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries, was a monument to the greatness of this personage, built by her people.

In 1843, Smith provided his final public description of the Godhead before his death, in which he described God the Father as having a physical body, and the Holy Spirit, also, as a distinct personage: " The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's ; the Son also ; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit.

The Latter-day Saints believe that " The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man ’ s ; the Son also ; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit.

He was now a personage at court, where he won many over by his amiability and gaiety ; and in political matters also his influence was beginning to be felt.

The motif of spider as a benevolent personage, saving people from peril with its cobweb, lifting them up to the sky in danger, is present also in many tales of Sireniki Eskimos ( as mentioned, their exact classification inside Eskimo peoples is not settled yet ).

" Among other famous personage, the mausoleum also holds the crypt of Rudolph Valentino.

The congedo or commiato also forms the pattern of the Provençal tornado, known as the French envoi, addressing the poem itself or directing it to the mission of a character, originally a personage.

He also wrote two successful non-fiction books about UFOs, Les Soucoupes Volantes viennent d ’ un Autre Monde Flying Saucers Come From Another World and Black-Out sur les Soucoupes Volantes On The Flying Saucers, the latter prefaced by Jean Cocteau, and by the 1970s, had become a major personage among French writers about UFOs.

Bibi Pak Daman, which means the " Ladies of Purity, is the collective name of the six ladies believed to interred at this mausoleum, though it is also popularly used to refer to the personage of Ruqayyah bint Ali alone.

There is also overlap with miniature figures ( minis ) used in wargames and role-playing games: minis are usually less than 54 mm scale, and do not necessarily represent any given personage.

Vicegespann or Vizegespan ) was described as " the personage of the most importance in the county ", having duties similar to an English sheriff but also presiding over the county court of justice.

Otherwise this personage appears only in the Hversu and Orkneyinga saga accounts where Kári appears to be the heir to his father's kingdoms as in the Hversu Kári's descendants emerge also as rulers of Finland and Kvenland.

There are also processions of honor, for instance to meet a royal personage, or the bishop on his first entry into his diocese ( Pontif.

Notably in the Florence and Emily (" I'm a Laydee ") characters from Little Britain, and also in the eccentric personage of Hyacinth Bucket.