There are five main categories in which potential sources and / or analogues are included: Scandinavian parallels, classical sources, Irish sources and analogues, ecclesiastical sources, and echoes in other Old English texts.

In classical Chinese astronomy, the northern sky is divided geometrically, into five " enclosures " and twenty-eight mansions along the ecliptic, grouped into Four Symbols of seven asterisms each.

The concept of the five classical elements in the Western tradition may originate from Babylonian mythology.

Yin, Yang, and the five elements are associated with themes in the I Ching, the oldest of Chinese classical texts which describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy.

Air is not one of the traditional five Chinese classical elements.

The 2011 contemporary classical concept album Troika is composed of new orchestral songs set to Russian, English, and French-language poetry by five multilingual Russian-born writers: Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Lermontov, Vladimir Nabokov, Aleksandr Pushkin and Fyodor Tyutchev.

The battente, called " chitarra battente " in Italian, is generally smaller than a classical guitar and usually played with four or five single or double course metal strings of equal gauge.

Halakha constitutes the practical application of the 613 mitzvot (" commandments ", singular: mitzvah ) in the Torah, ( the five books of Moses, the " Written Law ") as developed through discussion and debate in the classical rabbinic literature, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud ( the " Oral law "), and as codified in the Mishneh Torah or Shulchan Aruch ( the Jewish " Code of Law ".

A second classical distinction is between the Written Torah ( laws written in the Hebrew Bible, specifically its first five books ), and Oral Law, laws believed transmitted orally prior to compilation in texts such as the Mishnah, Talmud, and Rabbinic codes.

* Telepathy: Transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the five classical senses.

The five canons of rhetoric, which trace the traditional tasks in designing a persuasive speech, were first codified in classical Rome, invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.

The Five Bridges Suite contains five movements written by the band members instead of using existing classical works.

The classical element of Water was also one of the five elements in traditional Chinese philosophy, along with earth, fire, wood, and metal.

In 1943 he started piano lessons with the Argentine classical pianist Raúl Spivak, which would continue for the next five years, and wrote his first classical works Preludio No. 1 for Violin and Piano and Suite for Strings and Harps.

Some legends include flight, invisibility, shapeshifting, the ability to " split " into multiple bodies, the summoning of animals, and control over the five classical elements.

Written Coptic has five major dialects which differ mainly in graphic conventions, most notably the southern Saidic dialect which was the main classical dialect and the northern Bohairic dialect which is currently used in Coptic Church services.

During the new moon and solar eclipse of February 4 — 5, 1962, an extremely rare great conjunction of the classical planets occurred ( it included all five of the naked-eye planets plus the Sun and the Moon ), all of them within 16 degrees of one another on the ecliptic.

It is intermediate in size between Portia ( the second largest inner moon ) and Miranda ( the smallest of the five large classical moons ).

( The West Side Story woodwind section would require twelve " classical " players instead of five " reed " players.

Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from the 4th to the 8th centuries, the classical language of Edessa, preserved in a large body of Syriac literature.

He began to study classical piano at age five and quickly developed a thirst for musical instruction and a desire to improvise.

The five classical piano pieces played in the film and referenced in the title are:

Within five months of its release it sold 200, 000 copies, an unheard-of number for a piece of contemporary classical music at that time.

* Ceres ( dwarf planet ), smallest of the five identified dwarf planets, originally classified as a planet, and later as the largest asteroid

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

In another form of the method, timing the eclipses in an eclipsing binary star can reveal an outer planet that orbits both stars ; as of November 2011, five planets have been found in that way.

But as of 2011, it has not been very productive ; five planets have been detected in this way, around three different pulsars.

Relativistic precession has been observed for all planets that allow for accurate precession measurements ( Mercury, Venus and the Earth ), as well as in binary pulsar systems, where it is larger by five orders of magnitude.

The Sisterhood of Karn also state " Our senses reach beyond the five planets ", intimating Gallifrey's solar system comprises five worlds.

In August 2010, a European astronomical team working at the La Silla Observatory in Chile announced that they had confirmed the presence of at least five planets orbiting the star HD 10180 in Hydrus.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

He found that each of the five Platonic solids could be uniquely inscribed and circumscribed by spherical orbs ; nesting these solids, each encased in a sphere, within one another would produce six layers, corresponding to the six known planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

As of 2008, only five objects in the Solar System, Ceres, Eris, and the KBOs Pluto, Makemake and Haumea, are listed as dwarf planets by the IAU.

* The Fleet of Worlds is the five ( at one point six, as detailed in Fleet of Worlds ) planets that are home to the Puppeteers ( see above ), presently being moved in formation at sub-light speeds out of the galaxy to avoid destruction as the wave of radiation from an explosion of the galactic core sweeps towards the outer reaches of the galaxy.

The first five games in the series concern the renegade guardian of the planet Terra (" Earth " in Latin ), named Sheltem, who becomes irrevocably corrupted, developing a penchant for throwing planets into their suns.

Additionally, the Solar System also contains at least five dwarf planets and hundreds of thousands of small Solar System bodies.

On these five circles he placed obliquely the circles that the Greeks call loxos or zoe, the Latins obliques or vitalis ( the zodiac ) because it contained the figures of the animals ascribed to the planets.

The cycle of seven days, named after the sun, the moon, and the five planets visible to the naked eye, was already customary in the time of Justin Martyr, who wrote of the Christians meeting on the Day of the Sun ( Sunday ).

* The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, where he begins his groundbreaking work with the colleague Wei Pu on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, planets, and moon three times a night for a continuum of five years.

The five visible planets ( Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn ) are assigned four spheres each:

In the morning of 1 May 2011, about an hour before sunrise, five of our Solar System ’ s eight planets and the Moon could be seen from Paranal.

In May 2000, the five brightest planets were aligned within 20 degrees of the Sun, as seen from the Earth.

Formally classified moons include 176 planetary satellites orbiting six of the eight planets, and eight orbiting three of the five IAU-listed dwarf planets.