Even the great god Faulkner, the South's one probable contender for literary immortality, has little concerned himself with these matters ; ;

A number of non-Greek etymologies have been suggested for the name, The form Apaliunas (< sup > d </ sup >) is attested as a god of Wilusa in a treaty between Alaksandu of Wilusa and the Hittite great king Muwatalli II ca 1280 BCE.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

Admetus treated Apollo well, and, in return, the god conferred great benefits on Admetus.

In a great majority of instances the name Abrasax is associated with a singular composite figure, having a Chimera-like appearance somewhat resembling a basilisk or the Greek primordial god Chronos ( not to be confused with the Greek titan Cronus ).

As such it draws to a conclusion the themes introduced in Genesis and played out in Exodus and Leviticus: God has promised the Israelites that they shall become a great ( i. e. numerous ) nation, that they will have a special relationship with Yahweh their god, and that they shall take possession of the land of Canaan.

* Apostasy: the great tragedy of Israel's history, meaning the destruction of the kingdom and the Temple, is due to the failure of the people, but more especially the kings, to worship Yahweh alone ( Yahweh being the god of Israel ).

In the Prose Edda, additional information is given about Fenrir, including that, due to the gods ' knowledge of prophecies foretelling great trouble from Fenrir and his rapid growth, the gods bound him, and as a result Fenrir bit off the right hand of the god Týr.

" great god ") on the Japanese game cover, makes a play on words between the word for wolf ( 狼 ) and the word Kami, as 大神 and 狼 are pronounced the same way ; the pivotal protagonist is a statue of a wolf possessed by Amaterasu.

Plutarch and others have noted that the sacrifices to Osiris were " gloomy, solemn, and mournful ..." ( Isis and Osiris, 69 ) and that the great mystery festival, celebrated in two phases, began at Abydos on the 17th of Athyr ( November 13 ) commemorating the death of the god, which was also the same day that grain was planted in the ground.

Because of the great diversity of forms found in this group, the Proteobacteria are named after Proteus, a Greek god of the sea, capable of assuming many different shapes, and it is therefore not named after the genus Proteus.

The Greek form of the name Babylon is from the native Akkadian Bāb-ilim, which means " Gate of the god ", which summarizes the religious purpose of the great temple towers ( the ziggurats ) of ancient Sumer ( Biblical Shinar ).

At a point in dialogue between the skaldic god Bragi and Ægir, Snorri himself begins speaking of the myths in euhemeristic terms and states that the historical equivalent of Víðarr was the Trojan hero Aeneas who survived the Trojan War and went on to achieve " great deeds ".

Daniel Howard-Snyder writes about the possibility of believing in an unsurpassably great personal god that is nevertheless dispassionate towards its creatures.

Leto, the Hyperborean goddess, after nine days and nine nights of labour on the island of Delos ( Pelasgian for hill, related to tell ) " gave birth to the great god of the antique light " ( Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, I.

The goddesses find and restore Osiris ' body, often with the help of other deities, including Thoth, a deity credited with great magical and healing powers, and Anubis, the god of embalming and funerary rites.

Diodorus also explained how, initially, the Pythia was an appropriately clad young virgin, for great emphasis was placed on the Oracle's chastity and purity to be reserved for union with the god Apollo.

Merodach, the great god, excited my mind to repair this building.

In one Native North American story, an evil serpent kills one of the gods ' cousins, so the god kills the serpent in revenge, but the dying serpent unleashes a great flood.

Typically, that order would be noun – adjective – numeral – genitive phrase – relative clause – possessive marker – plural marker – case marker, for example / diĝir gal-gal-ĝu-ne-ra / (" god great ( reduplicated )- my-plural-dative " = " for all my great gods ").

" A common interpretation of the representation of " Trismegistus " as " thrice great " recalls the three characterizations of Idris: as a messenger of god, or a prophet ; as a source of wisdom, or hikmet ( wisdom from hokmah ); and as a king of the world order, or a " sultanate.

:: and the immortally anointed hair of the great god

" We may justifiably ask ," observes Kerenyi, " Why was this great mythical hunter, who in Greece became a mysterious god of the underworld, a capturer of wild animals and not a killer?

To possess her himself, the god revealed the springs of Lerna, a cult site of great antiquity near the shores of the Argolid.

Jazz great Tony Williams and legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker drummed on the album, which also featured Ryuichi Sakamoto of the Japanese electropop group Yellow Magic Orchestra.

The Union Yellow Jacket Football team has seen great success in recent past.

Starvation reservoir was created as part of the Central Utah Project and is a great fishing lake with stocks of Rainbow trout, Small Mouth Bass, Walleye, Yellow Perch, and Utah Chub.

In the 1990s, Japanese rock musicians such as B ' z, Mr. Children, Glay, Southern All Stars, L ' Arc-en-Ciel, Tube, Spitz, Wands, T-Bolan, Judy and Mary, Asian Kung – Fu Generation, Field of View, Deen, Ulfuls, Lindberg, Sharam Q, The Yellow Monkey, The Brilliant Green and Dragon Ash achieved great commercial success.

The other great early work, Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune ( The Mystery of the Yellow Room ), was written in 1907 by French journalist and author Gaston Leroux, and it, too, has had many imitators.

Robert Nunez is the great grandson of Alcide " Yellow " Nunez and is also the principal tubist with the Louisiana Philharmonic of New Orleans.

* Author Ishmael Reed, in his novels Mumbo Jumbo, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, and others, makes great use of Hoodoo, including characters who are practitioners.

The city centre is situated to the south of the middle reach of the Yellow River, where its valley broadens into the great plain.

Liu Xiu was initially met with great gladness by the people north of the Yellow River.

A key military development with great implications later was that the Yellow Turbans were largely combatted with battle-tested Liang Province ( 涼州, modern Gansu ) troops, who had been accustomed to fight the Qiang rebellions.

The talk would then be all of the Black and Yellow Flags, and of the long years of feuds and hatreds in the steaming malarial jungle and on the silent reaches of the great river.

Construction of the new Central Campus commenced in 1959, during the Great Leap Forward and in the year of a great Yellow River flood.

The great Chinese historian Sima Qianand much Chinese historiography following himconsidered the Yellow Emperor to be a more historical figure than earlier legendary figures such as Fu Xi, Nüwa, and the Yan emperor.

The inscription reads: " The Yellow Emperor created and changed a great many things ; he invented weapons and the well-field system | wells and fields system ; he devised upper and lower garments, and established palaces and houses.

The first issue ( Nov. 1905 ) of the Minbao 民報 (" People's Journal "), which was founded in Tokyo by revolutionaries of the Tongmenghui, featured the Yellow Emperor on its cover and called Huangdi " the first great nationalist of the world.

According to the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project of the University of California at Berkeley, the Proto-Sino-Tibetan ( PST ) homeland may have been " where the great rivers of East and Southeast Asia ( including the Yellow, Yangtze, Mekong, Brahmaputra, Salween, and Irrawaddy ) have their source.

The mountain chains separating the Ordos from the central Gobi in the north of the great bend of the Yellow River are: the Kara-naryn-ula, the Sheitenula, and the Yin Mountains, which link on to the south end of the Greater Khingan Mountains.

The northern part of the great bend of the Yellow River is filled with the sands of Kuzupchi River, a succession of dunes, 12 – 15 m high.

The Yin Mountains, which stretch from 108 ° to 112 ° E in the north of the great bend of the Yellow River, have a wild alpine character and are distinguished from other mountains in the southeast of Mongolia by an abundance of both water and vegetation.

Her name is Droughtghoul, daughter of the great god Yellow.

He attacked the great god Yellow.

So the great god Yellow sent down his sky daughter called Droughtghoul and the rain stopped.

Nisao of the Yellow Ajah states that Egwene will " become one of the great Amyrlins " and that " She will be the longest sitting Amyrlin in history ... None will ever live long enough to top her unless she chooses to step down early "

This " great god Long River " translates Di Jiang 帝江 " Emperor Yangtze River ", which is identified with Huang Di 黄帝 " Yellow Emperor ".