Additionally, Ratramnus wrote an odd Letter on the Dog-headed Creatures, dissenting from the commonly-held belief that the mythical cynocephali were animals.

The title refers to the mythical belief in the dawning of a ' new age ' under the astrological sign of Aquarius The twin themes are the artist as himself and the artist in relation to society.

In his work on the history of religion, Eliade is most highly regarded for his writings on Alchemy, Shamanism, Yoga and what he called the eternal return — the implicit belief, supposedly present in religious thought in general, that religious behavior is not only an imitation of, but also a participation in, sacred events, and thus restores the mythical time of origins.

In belief systems that involve a deus otiosus, the distant High God is believed to have been closer to humans during the mythical age.

Besides the mythical Tamoanchan, Mexican historian and scholar of Mesoamerican belief systems Alfredo López Austin identifies several sacred sites that were historical localities associated with Tamoanchan.

The Santa Compaña (" Holy Company ") is a deep-rooted mythical belief in rural Galicia and Asturias ( where it is called Güestia ), Spain.

Pixies ( also Pixy, Pixi, Pizkie, Piskies and Pigsies as they are sometimes known in Cornwall ) are mythical creatures of folklore, considered to be particularly concentrated in the high moorland areas around Devon and Cornwall, suggesting some Celtic origin for the belief and name.

In Shinto belief, mythical beasts known as raijū sometimes appeared as monkeys and kept Raijin, the god of lightning, company.

Folk etymology led to the belief that each Prussian tribe was named after a tribal leader or his wife, such as the mythical leader Warmo ruling the Warmians.

A combination of whimsy, romance, and political satire, the plot revolves around Finian McLonergan, who has emigrated from Ireland to the town of Rainbow Valley in the mythical state of Missitucky with his daughter Sharon, intent on burying a stolen pot of gold in the shadows of Fort Knox, in the belief it will grow and multiply.

* The religious scholar and writer Mircea Eliade has applied the term " eternal return " to what he sees as a universal religious belief in the ability to return to the mythical age through myth and ritual ( see Eternal Return ( Eliade )).

The boshanlu stemmed cup was topped by a perforated lid in the shape of one of the sacred mountains / islands, such as Mount Penglai – a strong contemporary belief — often with the images of mythical persons and beasts throughout the hillsides.

They arrived at the end 15th Century with the hope of finding precious metals ( tin and silver, specifically ), in the belief that that Flores was part of the mythical Ihas Cassitérides ().

Jones named the movement " The Third Wave ", mis-stating the mythical belief that the third in a series of ocean waves is last and largest ( which comes from a traditional sailors ' saying that the ninth wave is the largest, as recited in Tennyson's The Coming of Arthur ).

The term comes from the belief of classical Greeks that only the mythical Cyclopes had the strength to move the enormous boulders that made up the walls of Mycenae and Tiryns.

At some point following Alexander the Great's initial advance through the region in 331 BC or in the period 324 / 3 BC when he returned to Mesopotamia, the ancient Greeks colonized the island, which they named Ikaros after the Greek island in the Aegean Sea and the mythical hero Icarus, apparently in the belief that the island had a similar shape of its Aegean counterpart.

Finally, he sees Marx's belief in the final triumph of the good ( the proletariat ) over the evil ( the bourgeoisie ) as " a truly messianic Judaeo-Christian ideology ".

The Jewish belief in an earthly temporary messianic age continued during and beyond the time of the writing of the Book of Revelation.

Justin Martyr in the 2nd century was one of the first Christian writers to clearly describe himself as continuing in the “ Jewish ” belief of a temporary messianic kingdom prior to the eternal state.

These writings, only some of which have survived, are often misunderstood to describe a belief that the Ramchal and his followers were key figures in a messianic drama that was about to take place.

Some workers converted their experience into a nearly messianic belief in the power of unionism to take them out of bondage.

The prevailing belief among rabbinic Jews is that in the messianic era, the Jewish Messiah will come and a Third Temple will be built.

According to the New Testament, some Christians believed that they encountered Jesus after his crucifixion ; they argued that he had been resurrected ( the belief in the resurrection of the dead in the messianic age was a core Pharisaic doctrine ), and would soon return to usher in the Kingdom of God and fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead and the Last Judgment.

Some of the psalms are messianic, in the Jewish sense ( clearly referring to a mortal that happens to be divinely assisted, much like Moses ), but the majority are concerned less with the world at large, and more with individual behaviour, expressing a belief that repentance for unintended sins will return them to God's favour.

Thus to France, the meaning of the verse is that Jesus fulfill the prophecies that the messiah will be abused and neglected, a prevalent current in Jewish messianic thinking that was just as active as the belief that the messiah would be an all conquering hero.

In Bahá ' í belief, the Báb fulfils the prophecies of Islam as being the Mahdi foretold by Muhammad ; Bahá ' u ' lláh is seen to fulfil the messianic prophecies found in world religions.

A traditional figure in English folklore, Father Christmas is identified with the old belief in the Old English god Woden.

In Islam, Isa is believed to hold the task of killing the false messiah ( al-Dajjal, a figure similar to the Antichrist in Christianity ), who will emerge shortly before him during Qiyamah ( Armageddon in Islamic belief ).

The belief in reincarnation is particularly high in the Baltic countries, with Lithuania having the highest figure for the whole of Europe, 44 %.

The key figure the Qur ' an uses to demonstrate patience is Job, who survived his trial by keeping his belief in God and remaining patient.

The sacrifice was related to the belief that the first human being was a girl, born of the mating of the Morning Star, the male figure of light, and Evening Star, a female figure of darkness, in their creation story.

Nanabozho ( also known by a variety of other names and spellings, including Wenabozho, Menabozho, and Nanabush ) is a trickster figure and culture hero who features as the protagonist of a cycle of stories that serve as the Anishinaabe origin belief.

While Ruach Hakodesh, and any possible interpretation of the Holocaust involving reincarnation, may be concealed from every saintly figure today, nonetheless, the general belief in such processes can leave room to reconcile the suffering of the Holocaust with traditional Jewish belief.

This could occur, for example, where there is heavy reliance on a central charismatic figure in the organization, or where there is an evangelical belief in the organization ' values, or also in groups where a friendly climate is at the base of their identity ( avoidance of conflict ).

Giants figure prominently in Cornish and Welsh folklore, and in common with many animist belief systems, they represent the force of nature.

As the figure itself was beyond belief, Feynman questioned exactly what " necessarily " meant in this context — did it mean that the figure followed logically from other calculations, or did it reflect NASA management's desire to make the numbers fit?

As witnessed at his funeral, he had a son whose birth was concealed because of the difficulties of the time and because of the belief that he was Muhammad al-Mahdi ; an important figure in Shi ' i teaching who is believed will reappear at the end of time to fill the world with justice, peace and to establish Islam as the global religion.

The figure was removed due to the opposition of Islamic fundamentalists ( see Islamic aniconism, the belief against making pictures of the human figure ).

Many other neopagan belief systems besides Wicca follow Graves in his use of the figure of the Triple Goddess, and it continues to be an influence on feminism, literature, Jungian psychology and literary criticism.

There is a belief that a hunkypunk is only a short squatting figure typical of those found in some Somerset churches.

On the film's Japanese actors, she writes that " the two main Japanese characters who have brought him to this understanding are Sergeant Hara ( Takeshi ), a brutal figure who taunts Lawrence while also admiring him, and Captain Yonoi ( Ryuichi Sakamoto ), the handsome young camp commander, who has a fierce belief in the samurai code.

Real Presence is a term used in various Christian traditions to express belief that in the Eucharist, Jesus Christ is really present in what was previously just bread and wine, and not merely present in symbol, a figure of speech ( metaphorically, common amongst the Radical Reformers and their descendants ), or by his power ( dynamically ), or by the grace of the Holy Spirit in the individual believer partaking of the species ( pneumatically, common amongst Reformed believers ).

Her belief was that she was chosen by God to restore true Christianity on earth and became the central figure of a spiritual network that extended beyond the borders of the Dutch Republic, including Holstein and Scotland.

One main figure of this belief system was the female character of Mari.

Cope did not include the " hind " ( actually front ) paddles in this figure in part due to his erroneous belief that Elasmosaurus was propelled by its extremely long “ tail ” ( neck ).

Holmes, after sending Munro home with instructions to wire for him if the cottage was reoccupied, confides in Watson his belief that the mysterious figure is Effie Munro's first husband.