The primitive-eclogue quality of his drawings, akin to that of graffiti scratched on a cave wall, is equally well known.

* 1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

Its blind cave form, however, is notable for having no eyes and being albino, that is, completely devoid of pigmentation ; it has a pinkish-white color to its body.

A. mexicanus is famous for its blind cave form, which is known by such names as blind cave tetra, blind tetra, and blind cavefish.

Astyanax jordani, however, is another blind cave fish, independently and recently evolved from the sighted surface form, which is sometimes confused with the cave form of A. mexicanus.

As they grow older, skin just grows over them and the eyes degenerate completely, because there is no need for sight in the pitch-black world of a cave.

The blind cave tetra is a fairly hardy species.

However, it is the lack of eyes that has been at the centre of discussion of the Mexican cave tetras among creationists.

Another likely explanation for the loss of its eyes is that of selective neutrality and genetic drift: in the dark environment of the cave, the eyes are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous and thus any genetic factors that might impair the eyes ( or their development ) can take hold with no consequence on the individual or species.

Among some creationists the cave tetra is seen as evidence against evolution.

The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.

The cave has a large triangular-shaped opening and is about ten feet deep.

Brown bear remains from the Pleistocene period are common in the British Isles, where it is thought they outcompeted cave bears.

Caving — also occasionally known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing in the United Kingdom and Ireland — is the recreational pastime of exploring wild ( generally non-commercial ) cave systems.

In contrast, speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment.

The challenges involved in the activity depend on the cave being visited, but often include the negotiation of pitches, squeezes, and water ( although actual cave diving is a separate sub-specialty undertaken by very few cavers ).

The Lemba people of South Africa and Zimbabwe have claimed that their ancestors carried the Ark south, calling it the ngoma lungundu or " voice of God ", eventually hiding it in a deep cave in the Dumghe mountains, their spiritual home.

He became a recluse, making a home for himself in a cave on Salamis ( The Cave of Euripides ), " where he built an impressive library and pursued daily communion with the sea and sky ", eventually retiring to the " rustic court " of King Archelaus in Macedonia, there dying in 406 BC.

Eventually they find that the large cave is the home of the great Cyclops Polyphemus.

When Polyphemus returns home with his flocks and finds Odysseus and his men, he blocks the cave entrance with a great stone, trapping the remaining Greeks inside.

He finds her home when he locates the cave he had lived in after crashing onto prehistoric Earth with the Golgafrinchans: her flat is built on the same spot.

This block slips downhill to the home of the seven dwarfs, who carry the frozen Betty into an enchanted cave.

:" Then, when the messengers went home, having well wrought their errand, they found, in a certain cave, where a giantess sat: she called herself Thökk.

He died in 1815 and is buried in a cave near his home, Squire Boone Caverns.

The cave is home to a colony of glow worms ( larvae of the insect Arachnocampa flava ) and commercial operators lead night tours into the cave.

In Virgil's Aeneid, a cave on the Aventine's rocky slope next the river is home to the monstrous Cacus, killed by Hercules for stealing Geryon's cattle.

The Pictograph, Middle, and Ghost cave complex were home to generations of prehistoric hunters.

North of Florence on U. S. Route 101 are the Sea Lion Caves, a tourist attraction that features a sea cave that is the year-round home of a population of Steller sea lions.

Some of the discharged members of the Mormon Battalion, on their way home from California to Salt Lake City on September 18, 1848, camped on Deep Creek and also in a cave one mile ( 1. 6 km ) east called Hollow Rock.

Whitewright was the home of US Lieutenant Joe Tom Meador, who after World War II looted several major pieces of art from a cave near Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

After the Internal Revenue Service seized his home in Key West, Florida, Coe lived in a cave in Tennessee, and later remarried and got back on his feet.

The Whitsunday Islands are also home to a surprising number of cave paintings.

A standard three-bedroom cave home with lounge, kitchen, and bathroom can be excavated out of the rock in the hillside for a similar price to building a house on the surface.

The family home was a cave in one of the hills in the Les Caillols area of Marseille, between the city's 11th and 12th arrondissements, and it was rumoured to have been used as a look-out post for the German Army, towards the end of the Second World War.

In the cartoon, after a disagreement with her parents, Betty runs away from home, accompanied by her boyfriend Bimbo, only to get lost in a haunted cave.

One of the most well-known holiday resorts in the country, Tapolca ( officially Miskolctapolca or Miskolc-Tapolca to avoid confusion with the Transdanubian town of the same name ) is the home of the unique Cave Bath, a natural cave with thermal water.

Most cave diving exploration is now conducted on the basis of " mini projects " lasting 1 – 7 days, and occurring many times a year, and these may include daily commutes from home to jungle dive base camps located within 1 hour from road access.

Some home made rebreather were used by cave divers to penetrate cave sumps.

Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.

In Grímnismál, Odin and Frigg are both sitting in Hliðskjálf when they see their foster sons Agnarr and Geirröðr, one living in a cave with a giantess and the other a king.

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The Boreads, sons of Boreas, the North Wind, who also could fly, succeeded in driving off the harpies, but without killing any of them, following a request from Iris, who promised that Phineas would not be bothered by the harpies again, and " the dogs of great Zeus " returned to their " cave in Minoan Crete ".

John takes refuge with a few other survivors ( an American couple he had met on the plane to San Lorenzo and Felix Hoenikker's two sons ), and lives in a cave for several months, during which time he writes a memoir revealed to be the novel itself.

10: And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, 11: Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee ; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.

20: And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

9: And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre ; 10: The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

*: For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Although his daughters Uzahne and Janet were not frequent visitors to the cave ; his sons, Norman, James, Lee and Daniel were fascinated by the cave.

* In Chapter 9 the narrative follows with a description of a Levite man named Taxo and his seven sons, who, rather than give in to hellenizing influences, seal themselves into a cave.

With the aid of her two sons, Jack and Peter, Mary Herschend was able to make vast improvements to the cave, including a train which pulled visitors a distance of, from the depths of the cave up to the surface.