During a complex creation myth in which the cosmic cow licked Buri free from the ice, the sons of Buri's son, Bor, who were Odin, Vili and Vé, constructed the universe and put Midgard in it as a residence for the first human couple, Ask and Embla, whom they created from driftwood trees in Section 9.

Many years passed and the woman bore the taniwha six sons, with three like their father and three fully human.

She educated all her sons and in particular taught her human sons the art of war, helping them to fashion and use weapons.

The poem starts with the völva requesting silence from " the sons of Heimdallr " ( human beings ) and asking Odin whether he wants her to recite ancient lore.

In thirty two cases the phrase appears in intermediate plural form " sons of men ", i. e. human beings.

In thirty two cases the phrase appears in intermediate plural form " sons of men ", i. e. human beings.

* Odin had two brothers, Vili and Vé ( or Lodur and Hoenir according to Völuspá ), numbering three sons of Borr who created the world and gave life to the first human beings.

Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.

The sons, who have human features, located the opening to the fourth world in the southwest, but they were forced to pass through the progressively dimming first, second and third worlds before reaching the overcrowded and blackened fourth world.

Both sons are one sixteenth Maiar, nine sixteenths elven ( five thirty-seconds Vanyarin, three thirty-seconds Noldorin, five sixteenths Sindarin ) and three eighths human ( one quarter of the House of Bëor, one sixteenth of the House of Haleth, and one sixteenth of the House of Hador ).

In Genesis chapter 6 the " sons of God ", presumed by some to be fallen angels, mate with human women, creating a race of super-beings called the Nephilim.

The horse was capable of carrying Rinaldo and his three brothers (" the four sons of Aymon ") all at the same time and of understanding human speech.

By the 3rd century, there is evidence that some early Christians accepted this Jewish Enochic pseudepigraphy and the application of the angelic descent myth to the " sons of God " passage in, Its presence not only in the East but also in the Latin-speaking West is attested by the polemic of Augustine of Hippo ( 354 – 430 ) against the motif of giants born of the union between fallen angels and human women.

Those who adopted the tradition viewed the " sons of God " as fallen angels who married human women and by unnatural union begot the Nephilim.

Pseudo-Philo, Biblical Antiquities 3: 1 – 3 may also imply that the " sons of God " were human.

Some individuals and groups, including St. Augustine, John Chrysostom, and John Calvin, take the view of Genesis 6: 2 that the " Angels " who fathered the nephilim referred to certain human males from the lineage of Seth, who were called sons of God probably in reference to their being formerly in a covenantal relationship with Yahweh ( cf.

Patrick then helps his alien children to cocoon, awaiting their rebirth as adults where his daughters will find human males to have sex with and his sons will find human females to have sex with while Patrick continues to have sex with human females until the human population is wiped out.

The MST identifies what it believes to be unproductive rural land that does not meet its social function and occupies it, through a strategy of continuous and massive occupations throughout the entire national territory, afterwards moving to ascertain the legality of the occupations. The MST is represented in these activities by public interest legal counsel, including their own lawyers, sons and daughters of MST families, as well as organizations such as Terra de Direitos, a human rights organization of civil society co-founded by Darci Frigo, the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award Laureate.

Dante is one of the twin sons of Sparda, the demon knight who sided with humanity and drove back an invasion of the human world by demons 2, 000 years ago.

The youthful conquests of King John the Presbyter ( also called Prester John ) united most of the human world into a single realm, but by the beginning of the first book, the former conqueror is too old and feeble to stop his sons from quarrelling.

For them only a little more needed to be learned, and then all physical knowledge could be neatly sorted, packaged and put in the inventory to be drawn on for the solution of any human problem.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

He then applied this principle of reciprocal inhibition to human neuroses.

What then is the status of such questions as: is society the ground of human existence or a means to an individual goal??

Against such a termination of human life on earth by human action, he then proposes as an alternative that we `` negotiate at once with the Russians and get the best terms which are available '', that we deliberately `` negotiate from comparative weakness ''.

: Precise instructions ( in language understood by " the computer ") for a fast, efficient, " good " process that specifies the " moves " of " the computer " ( machine or human, equipped with the necessary internally contained information and capabilities ) to find, decode, and then process arbitrary input integers / symbols m and n, symbols + and =

A man who knows that God works through everything cannot sin, because every human act is then the act of God ;

He then proposed the idea that it might be possible to create chemicals that would act as a selective drug that would bind to and kill bacteria without harming the human host.

But if set to a frequency outside the human audible range then the ear can't perceive the square wave, only the difference between the speaker being switched on and off.

Course of the aorta in the thorax ( anterior view ), starting posterior to the main pulmonary artery, but then anterior to the right pulmonary arteries, the human trachea | trachea and the esophagus, but then turning posteriorly to course dorsally to these structures.

Heschel then goes on to explore the problems of doubts and faith ; what Judaism means by teaching that God is one ; the essence of humanity and the problem of human needs ; the definition of religion in general and of Judaism in particular ; and human yearning for spirituality.

Most telephone exchanges then used human operators and cord boards to switch telephone calls by means of jack plugs.

About 120 – 130 species have become extinct as a result of human activity since the 17th century, and hundreds more before then.

From then on, the U. S. actively engaged any communist threats anywhere in the globe under the ostensible causes of " freedom ", " democracy " and " human rights.

A first exception to this rule arose in an 1852 case by New York's highest court, Thomas v. Winchester, which held that mislabeling a poison as an innocuous herb, and then selling the mislabeled poison through a dealer who would be expected to resell it, put " human life in imminent danger.

" Casement then added how assailants would " bring down a dwarf on the way home, for the marital cooking pot ... The Dwarfs, as I say, dispense with cooking pots and eat and drink their human prey fresh cut on the battlefield while the blood is still warm and running.

Prior to 1931, New York Times reporter William Buehler Seabrook, allegedly in the interests of research, obtained from a hospital intern at the Sorbonne a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy human killed in an accident, then cooked and ate it.

The transformed Picus continually appears in this, trying to warn Ullyses, and then Eurylochus, of the danger to be found in the palace, and is rewarded at the end by being given back his human shape.

A compost toilet collects human excrement which is then added to a hot compost heap together with sawdust and straw or other carbon rich materials, where pathogens are destroyed.

This could be converted into musical notation by hand and then performed by human players.