The Greek alphabet evolved into the modern western alphabets, such as Latin and Cyrillic, while Aramaic became the ancestor of many modern abjads and abugidas of Asia.

The current Romance language spoken, Galego, has many words of Celtic origin and is the ancestor of the Portuguese language used mainly in Brazil and Portugal.

All the many species that have existed, have an ancestor in that alien molecule.

In their cross-cultural study of signs and symbols, Patterns that Connect, Carl Schuster and Edmund Carpenter present various forms of the labyrinth and suggest various possible meanings, including not only a sacred path to the home of a sacred ancestor, but also, perhaps, a representation of the ancestor him / herself: "... many World Indians who make the labyrinth regard it as a sacred symbol, a beneficial ancestor, a deity.

Eventually, no later than a billion years ago, one of these protists formed a symbiotic relationship with a cyanobacterium, producing the ancestor of many plants and algae.

According to legend, Samoa shares the common Polynesian ancestor of Tagaloa ; according to many legends, Samoa was Tagaloa's first creation.

Additionally, Sleipnir is mentioned in a riddle found in the 13th century legendary saga Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, in the 13th century legendary saga Völsunga saga as the ancestor of the horse Grani, and book I of Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus, contains an episode considered by many scholars to involve Sleipnir.

The number of Japanese citizens identifying their religious beliefs as Shinto has declined a great deal, yet the general practice of Shinto rituals has not decreased in proportion, and many practices have persisted as general cultural beliefs ( such as ancestor worship ), and community festivals ( matsuri )— focusing more on religious practices.

Therefore, for people unfamiliar with how " ancestor worship " is actually practiced and thought of, the use of the translation worship can be a cause of misunderstanding and is a misnomer in many ways.

In addition, the Aeneid attempted to legitimize the rule of Julius Caesar ( and by extension, of his adopted son Augustus and his heirs ) by renaming Aeneas ' son, Ascanius ( called Ilus from Ilium, meaning Troy ), Iulus and offering him as an ancestor of the gens Julia, the family of Julius Caesar, and many other great imperial descendants as part of the prophecy given to him in the Underworld.

This coin was the ancestor of many of the major European coin denominations to come later and also of the US dollar.

Through William, he is an ancestor of the present-day British royal family, as well as an ancestor of all current European monarchs and a great many pretenders to abolished European thrones.

Like most Niger – Congo languages, the ancestor of Gur languages probably had a noun class system ; many of today's languages have reduced this to a system of nominal genders or declensions or no longer have a class system.

In 1922 the newly discovered Protoceratops was seen as its ancestor by Henry Fairfield Osborn, but many decades passed before additional findings came to light.

Traditionally, all the raptors were grouped into 4 families in the single order Falconiformes, but many thought this group to be paraphyletic and not to share a common ancestor to the exclusion of all other birds.

# Father or ancestor of Ezra the scribe ( Book of Ezra 7: 1 ), understood by many as the same person as Seraiah ( 4 )< ref > Souvay, Charles.

Eber, an ancestor of Jacob ( six generations removed ), is a distant ancestor of many people, including the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, Midianites and Qahtanites.

Recently the tradition that many Kohanim are descended from a common male ancestor has gained support from genetic testing.

Hypermnestra (: the much wooed one, or the one wooed by many ), in Greek mythology, is the daughter of Danaus and the ancestor of the Danaids.

Stephen Jay Gould describes many of the same examples as parallel evolution starting from the common ancestor of all marsupials and placentals.

A mechanical engineer with anarchist leanings, possibly based on Russian futurists, Alexander Bogdanov ( the character's ancestor ) and Arkady Strugatsky, he is regarded by many other members of the First Hundred, particularly Boyle, as a troublemaker.

Kōkaku is the lineal ancestor of all the succeeding emperors of Japan up to present monarch, Akihito.

* Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge ( executed for treason by Henry V ), ancestor of Kings Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III of the House of York, and all succeeding monarchs of England after King Henry VII.

At some time in his adult life he inherited the title of the 4th Baron Bliss of the Kingdom of Portugal, succeeding to ancestor relative who held the position before.

* Turaga: This mataqali descends from the original ancestor through primogeniture-inheritance of the eldest son in each succeeding generation.

Through his eldest daughter, he would become ancestor to the long line of kings and co-rulers of the Bosporan Kingdom, the longest-living Roman client kingdom, as well as the rulers and royalty of several other Roman client states.

Llywelyn dominated Wales for over forty years, and was one of only two Welsh rulers to be called " the Great ", the other being his ancestor Rhodri the Great.

#* Zong (" ancestor ") is used in all other rulers.

Descent from Cerdic became a necessary criterion for later kings of Wessex, and Egbert of Wessex, progenitor of the English royal house and subsequent rulers of England and Britain, claimed him as an ancestor.

The belief that two kami, Kunitokodachi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto, were the original founders and rulers of Japan, who were driven away by Amaterasu Ōmikami, the divine ancestor of the imperial line, is what placed this religion in opposition to the government in pre-war Japan.

During the Tang dynasty, the Yellow Emperor, symbolic as the ancestor of the Han Chinese and founder of Chinese civilization, was also claimed by various other rulers who were not Han Chinese to be their ancestors, in order to connect themselves to the Tang.

Gard Agdi ( Old Norse Garðr Agði ) appears in the legendary genealogies of Hversu Noregr byggdist as one of the three sons of Nór, the legendary first king of Norway, and as ruler and ancestor of rulers over southwestern Norway.

In Heversu Noregr byggdist, Raum is one of the three sons of Nór, the legendary first king of Norway, and succeeds his father as a ruler and ancestor of rulers over southwestern Norway.

Ōe is named after Oe no Hiromoto, who was believed as the ancestor of the Mōri clan, the rulers of Yamaguchi.

Irish genealogies make Óengus a member of the Eóganachta of Munster, as a descendant of Coirpre Cruthnechán or " Cairbre the little Pict ", a mythological emanation or double of Coirpre Luachra mac Cuirc, legendary son of Conall Corc, and ancestor of the Eóganacht Locha Léin, rulers of the kingdom of Iarmuman.

While Maine's relationship is probably fictitious, there seems to be no good reason for doubting that the O Duibhgeannain descend from the figure claimed as an ancestor by the rulers of Hy-Many.

Many later rulers, especially during the New Kingdom and Late Period, condemned Seth and any royal ancestor who had connected his name with that deity.

Previous rulers had received temple names with the suffix jo ( 祖 ) or jong ( 宗 ), meaning " revered ancestor " and a title typically reserved for emperors.

Parasoji Bhosle the ancestor of the later Bhosle rulers of Nagpur was then in possession of Berar and Gondvana.

As the deal nears completion, Gordon discovers that Ben Knox ( Fulton Mackay ), an old beachcomber who lives in a snug driftwood shack on the shore, actually owns the beach through a grant from the Lord of the Isles to his ancestor.

Even though there are few academic and scientific studies about it, all facts indicate that the instrument we now call a Portuguese guitar ( or depending on the used name and definition, its direct ancestor ) was known until the nineteenth century throughout Europe as citra or cítara ( Portugal and Spain ), cetra ( Italy and Corsica ), cistre ( France ), cittern ( British Isles ), zither and zitharen ( Germany and Low Countries ).

It is possible that vessels of the birlinn type were used in the 1156 sea battle in which Somerled, Lord of Argyll, the ancestor of the said lords, firmly established himself in the Hebrides by confronting his brother-in-law, Godred Olafsson, King of the Isles.