The monumental Protoattic amphora from the middle of the 7th century BC, with the depiction of Medusa's beheading by Perseus and the blinding of Polyphemos by Odysseus and his companions on its neck, is kept in the Archaeological Museum of Eleusis which is located inside the archaeological site of Eleusis.

In most of Hinduism and transcendentalism, all matter is believed to be an illusion called Maya, blinding us from knowing the truth.

Sometimes the hands are arranged to form an overlapping lattice of ' windows ', referring to a ceremony sometimes called Nesiat Kapayim, the " lifting of the hands ", in which Jewish tradition states the Divine Presence would shine through the fingers of the priests as they blessed the people, who close their eyes as the light could be blinding.

Recovered, and fell-walking in the Lake District, " on Easter morning on Kidsty Pike, between Hawes Water and Hayes Water, a blinding spring sun on snowy ridge beyond ridge, from Fairfield to Blucathra, brought a moment of such ecstatic intoxication that, were I a mystic, I should have called it a mystical experience.

The New York Times called him " American cinema's king of amusing artifacts: blinding bric-a-brac, the junkiest of jewelry, costumes so frightening they take your breath away.

The Ghost of Captain Patch raises his ship called the Rake and plans his revenge on his younger brother Captain James Hook for blinding him years ago.

One that can be seen in the Japanese trailer has Jet Jaguar blinding Megalon with his flashlight eyes right before Megalon starts to kick at him while Gigan holds him down.

The fight moves to the nightclub where Hatcher kills Screwface's brother by gouging his eyes and blinding him, breaking his back and dropping him down an elevator shaft, in which he gets impaled upon landing.

) As a result, causality is weakened all over the globe, and the untrained humans, not knowing what to do with their newfound freedom, break down the fabric of reality as the stars suddenly reappear in the sky then turn into an almost blinding flash as the heavens fill with lights and possibilities undreamed of ...

' So I helped him down the icy steps, through the blinding sleet, into his carriage, and off on his mission of mercy .”

It was a dramatic race, Häkkinen got a blinding start pushing his way past both Ferraris on the front row, at same time it was a dreadful start for Michael Schumacher who fell down to 5th, soon after he passed Villeneuve for 4th then Irvine for 3rd.

Skimmers will prevent filters from blinding prematurely and keep chemical costs down because there is less oil to process.

However, he has a habit of treating his patients in bizarre and often disturbing ways, such as prescribing a young girl heroin, making a man with a headache jump up and down in order to make his penis swing ( while mirroring the patient's bewildered jumping himself ), blinding himself with an intense light in order to avoid awkward questions and insisting on examining a patient by telephone, even though he is in the same room.

Minutes after the tragic event, Tanma noticed a white Toa falling down the waterfall and there was suddenly a gigantic explosion of light, blinding the three attacking Makuta ( Antroz, Vamprah, and Chirox ) and bringing the Great Spirit back to life.

Will can use the power of the Heart to close and, further down the line, open holes in the Veil, release a blinding pink light from the Heart, project a force field of pink energy, create numerous fake copies of the Guardians that would disappear in a flash of light, reveal the true form of another, locate other Guardians using their Aurameres and show images of places and people.

Woodfords became a remount station of the Pony Express on April 4, 1860, when Warren Upson scaled the mountains in a blinding snowstorm, reached Woodfords from Lake Tahoe via Luther Pass, and made his way down the eastern slope of the Sierra on his way to Carson City.

The boys and everyone else inside the Wall-Mart evacuate and gather with other townsfolk in the parking lot, and see the Wall-Mart fold in on itself in a blinding flash of light, and " craps out feces " upon which Cartman laughs loud and hard once again and leaves the scene.

The council resumes but a sudden blinding headache bursts upon Kim, and in a heartbreaking vision she sees Jennifer in Starkadh, being raped and tortured by Maugrim.

Head of Odysseus from a Greek 2nd century BC marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, found at the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga

Odysseus and his men blinding the cyclops Polyphemus ( detail of a proto-attic amphora, c. 650 BC, museum of Eleusis )

Odysseus, with the help of his men, lifts the flaming stake, charges forward and drives it into Polyphemus ' eye, blinding him.

Polyphemus is shown to be blind and there was also a reference about Odysseus being responsible for blinding him under the alias of " Nobody ".

Odysseus ' ten year journey home was the result of hubris: after blinding the Cyclops, he mockingly declared his name to the monster as he escaped.

The villa included a grotto where some noteworthy sculptures, now housed in the museum, have been found: these portrayed the assault of Scylla to Odysseus ' ship, the blinding of Polyphemus, the theft of the Palladium and Odysseus lifting Achilles's corpse.

They are more dangerous than their cinematic inspiration, however ; they typically surround the player's character, so escape is impossible, and then mercilessly beat the player with rubber hoses from all directions, while temporarily blinding the player with cream pie.

Louis had the sentence commuted to blinding, which was duly carried out ; Bernard did not survive the ordeal, however, dying after two days of agony.

The results of that missile's explosion are the instant blinding of those who see the explosion, the resultant firestorm caused by the heat wave, and the blast front ; later, the collapse of society, because of radiation sickness, psychological damage, and destroyed infrastructure ; the British Army burns corpses, while police shoot looters during food riots.

For example, Henry Irving's 1892 King Lear offered spectacles such as Lear's death beneath a cliff at Dover, his face lit by the red glow of a setting sun ; at the expense of cutting 46 % of the text, including the blinding of Gloucester.

Unbiased studies of magnetic therapy are problematic, since magnetisation can be easily detected, for instance, by the attraction forces on ferrous ( iron-containing ) objects ; because of this, effective blinding of studies ( where neither patients nor assessors know who is receiving treatment versus placebo ) is difficult.

Adonis was killed by a wild boar, said to have been sent vicariously by Artemis, jealous of Adonis ' hunting skills or in retaliation for Aphrodite instigating the death of Hippolytus, a favorite of the huntress goddess ; or by Aphrodite's paramour, Ares, who was jealous of Aphrodite's love for Adonis ; or by Apollo, to punish Aphrodite for blinding his son, Erymanthus.

His first wife was Cleopatra, daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia, by whom he had a pair of sons ; his second wife Idaea, daughter of Dardanus, deceived him into blinding these sons, a fate Phineus himself would suffer.

Eighteen allusions to mythic Tiresias, noted by Luc Brisson, fall into three groups: one, in two episodes, recounts Tiresias ' sex-change and his encounter with Zeus and Hera ; a second group recounts his blinding by Athena ; a third, all but lost, seems to have recounted the misadventures of Tiresias.

Nine studies fit the inclusion criteria ; a modified Jadad score of methodological quality was used, taking into account the difficulty of blinding practitioners.

* The bazooka cannon is a weapon which fires out of the top of the robot's head ; it is not so much a true bazooka as a shower of sparks capable of blinding and disorienting an enemy.

Here lies the portal to the topmost layer of Celestia, Chronias ; the bridge of sheer blinding light known as the Bridge of al-Sihal is guarded by one of the mightiest of the solar named Xerona who allows those who are righteous and good to pass.

He forewarned the lighting crew to douse their lights when he got near the derricks, so that he could see to pull out of the dive ; the lights remained full on, blinding him, and he crashed.

However, since no one knows the " blinding fraction " f, no one has preexisting expectations about the meaningless neutrino count N ' = N x f in the visible data ; therefore, the analysis does not introduce any bias into the final number N which is reported.

Another blinding scheme is used in B meson analyses in experiments like BaBar and CDF ; here, the crucial experimental parameter is a correlation between certain particle energies and decay times — which require an extremely complex and painstaking analysis — and particle charge signs, which are fairly trivial to measure.

NTRU is actually a parameterised family of cryptosystems ; each system is specified by three integer parameters ( N, p, q ) which represent the maximal degree for all polynomials in the truncated ring R, a small modulus and a large modulus, respectively, where it is assumed that N is prime, q is always larger than p, and p and q are coprime ; and four sets of polynomials and ( a polynomial part of the private key, a polynomial for generation of the public key, the message and a blinding value, respectively ), all of degree at most.

Along the way, Baltimore confronts Timothy with her now-restored memories of how she was shot in the head and left for dead by Jack ( during this attack, she stabbed Jack in the eye, partly blinding him ; hence the name " One-Eyed Jack ") and reveals to Timothy that Caitlin is in fact " his " daughter.

Curren is a fascinating study in contradictions ; he has a surfing style that at combines smooth, rhythmic, seamlesslesly linked maneuvers with blinding speed, raw power, and unique check turns and body English.

" Man might have come from the brutes, but " he is assuredly not of them ... is not degraded from his high estate descent from a bestial savage ,... once escaped from the blinding influences of traditional prejudice, will find in the lowly stock whence Man has sprung, the best evidence of the splendour of his capacities ; and will discern in his long progress through the Past, a reasonable ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler future.

The new outfield consists of ; 175mm of amended root-zone, 125mm of unamended root-zone sand, a 50mm blinding layer and a 100mm gravel drainage layer.

Berne saw mortido as activating such forces as hate and cruelty, blinding anger and social hostilities ; and considered that inwardly directed mortido underlay the phenomena of guilt and self-punishment, as well as their clinical exacerbations in the form of depression or melancholia.