As punishment the Corinthian is turned into a mortal and Echo ( made a natural female in the Dreaming ) is given his position.

Though this myth has numerous forms, it always centers around the unfulfilled and tragic love of a mortal man who is turned into a flower, and a woodland nymph who is transformed into a brambly vine.

Polydectes held Perseus to his rash promise and demanded the head of the only mortal Gorgon, Medusa, whose eyes turned people to stone.

It also turned once intimate friends into mortal enemies.

When the Elders decide to test's Leo faith once and for all to determine if his destiny is to be an Elder or to be with his family, he is turned mortal with no memory of Piper, her sisters, or his children and is turned back into an Elder after his path had been " chosen ".

In the story, believing the creature to be dead, a scientist super-villain performs an autopsy on the Swamp Thing and discovers that it is not scientist Alec Holland turned into a plant mutant, but swamp vegetation that after digesting the mortal remains of Holland, had absorbed his mind, knowledge, memories, and skills and created a new sentient being that believed itself to be Alec Holland.

According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, in classical Greek mythology, when the crow told the god Apollo that his lover Coronis was cheating on him with a mortal, he became very angry, and part of that anger was directed at the crow, whose feathers he turned from white to black.

As Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in What It Means To Be a Christian ( 2006 ), “ Christian theology ... in the course of time turned the kingdom of God into a kingdom of heaven that is beyond this mortal life ; the well-being of men became a salvation of souls, which again comes to pass beyond this life, after death.

Then turned he away in pride And said: This is naught else than magic from of old ; This naught else than speech of mortal man.

How he plotted !- Yea, Woe to him ; How he plotted !- Then he looked round ; Then he frowned and he scowled ; Then he turned back and was haughty ; Then said he: " This is nothing but magic, derived from of old ; " This is nothing but the word of a mortal!

* Hercules ( voiced by Tate Donovan )-The god turned mortal hero-in-training ; thus he is now half-mortal, half-god.

By threatening to make the Alpha Lanterns kill themselves if Ganthet does not cooperate, Henshaw forces Ganthet to work on reversing the augments that turned the Green Lanterns into Alpha Lanterns, hoping that he can use the resulting information to restore his original mortal body.

A mortal human being is turned into a vampire childe by the Embrace, during which the sire drains all of his / her blood and then gives him / her some of the sire's own blood.

It is a former Human being that has undergone the " Embrace " of a Vampire, being completely drained of blood to the point of death and then fed some by their sire, a Vampire who has turned a mortal into a Vampire through the embrace.

His ambition came to an end though at the end of Witchblade # 75 where he was shot by Sara's captain after being turned mortal by Ian Nottingham and his Excalibur.

The Angel of Moroni visited the boy, Joseph Smith, after living out his mortal life in ancient America.

Variations of the story include that Dionysus had been insulted by a mortal and swore to slay the next mortal who crossed his path, creating fierce tigers to carry out his wrath.

The critic L. J. Hurst dismissed Aldiss's accusations, pointing out that in Triffids the main character witnesses several murders, suicides, and misadventures, and is frequently in mortal danger himself.

The original plot and premise of Preacher was spun out of Ennis ' run on Hellblazer, which postulated what would happen if an angel and a demon mated, and the spirit of their offspring ended up in a mortal man.

:::"... they writhedgasping as Scylla swung them up her cliff and thereat her cavern's mouth she bolted them down raw — screaming out, flinging their arms toward me, lost in that mortal struggle.

That Dasein is thrown into an already existing world and thus into its mortal possibilities does not only mean that Dasein is an essentially temporal being ; it also implies that the description of Dasein can only be carried out in terms inherited from the Western tradition itself.

Arda was made spherical, and Aman was put beyond it, out of the reach of mortal men.

When the time was ripe, and the world once more in mortal peril, it was prophesied that this small band of warriors would ride out from the hill, trusting in their purity of heart to defeat Nastrond for good.

Though their efforts to fight Bartleby are unsuccessful ( in fact, Jay accidentally helps Bartleby out by shooting his wings off with a MAC-10, turning him to a mortal ), God ( Alanis Morissette ) arrives, and proceeds to set things in order.

Some few Eternals do escape the Vortex's destruction, heading out to radically new lives as fellow mortal beings among the Brutals.

When the men of Númenor were buried under falling hills, Tirion, along with all the Undying Lands, was taken out of mortal reach forever and was heavily damaged if not completely destroyed.

" He met with his followers, but before he could speak the power of God anticipated him, and all the people cried out together: " O pious king, we reject our mortal gods, and we are ready to follow the immortal God whom Remi preaches.

From April 1914 he was placed aboard armored cruiser HNLMS Noord Brabant and, just before the first World War broke out, with that ship he was part of a mission to Albania to recover the mortal remains of Major Louis Thomson, who was killed in action there.

But the Goddess of Heaven ( or in some versions, Zhinü's mother ) found out that Zhinü, a fairy girl, had married a mere mortal.

More interesting ( and borne out by newspaper cuttings of the time ) is the story that the then rector, A. W. T. Nestor, had spent some part of his life in India and was in mortal dread of a typhoid outbreak.

Freud points out three main sources of displeasure we attempt to master: our own painful and mortal existence, the cruel and destructive aspects of the natural world, and the suffering endemic to the reality that we must live with other human beings in a society.

After a time, the mortal eyes wear out in her immortal body and she must take another pair from one of her victims.

When Clark is killed in his mortal body, Jor-El resurrects Clark, with his powers, but informs his son that someone he loves will have to take his place in death ; that person turns out to be Jonathan.

That is, to create a new vampire, a Baali sire-to-be will drain all the blood out of a target mortal and throw his body into a pit of corpses, then the vampire will spill some of his own vampiric blood into the pit.

It should also be noted that sequences often do not place stunt doubles in the same mortal peril as the characters: for example, harnesses and wires can be digitally edited out of the final film.

It hunts prey by running it down, grabbing its flanks or groin and inflicting mortal wounds by tearing out the viscera.

" Again, some said it was to keep the Tlaxcalans and other mortal enemies out of Mexico.

Chapter 12 " The Woman in Love " describes women in and outside marriage: " The day when it will be possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life and not a mortal danger.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

In the above mentioned report of the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the basic outlook of the new breed of lay faculty emerges very clearly in the very statement of the problem as the members see it: `` Even with the best of intentions he ( the President of the university ) is loath to delegate such authority and responsibility to a group the membership of which, considered ( as it must be by him ) in individual terms, is inhomogeneous, mortal and of extremely varying temperament, interests and capabilities.

The Roman Catholic celebration is associated with the doctrine that the souls of the faithful who at death have not been cleansed from the temporal punishment due to venial sins and from attachment to mortal sins cannot immediately attain the beatific vision in heaven, and that they may be helped to do so by prayer and by the sacrifice of the Mass.

They survive death threats, mortal trials, and court intrigue to be elevated to the highest positions in the land.

Furthermore the Council affirmed against Protestant doctrine that the grace of God can be forfeited through mortal sin.

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Overlap occurs between these usages because deities or godlike entities are often identical with and / or identified by the powers and forces that are credited to them — in many cases a deity is merely a power or force personified — and these powers and forces may then be extended or granted to mortal individuals.

Whereas Eden is said never to be witnessed by any mortal eye.

A demigod is a the son or daughter from one immortal and one mortal parent, example would be Herakles, son of the mortal queen Alkema and the god Zeus.

The snake and Chen were to be mortal enemies.

That is, the " middle " position, that Socrates is neither mortal nor not-mortal, is excluded by logic, and therefore either the first possibility ( Socrates is mortal ) or its negation ( it is not the case that Socrates is mortal ) must be true.

When, in 1887, the French and Italian Governments agreed upon moving the mortal remains of Rossini into the Basilica di Santa Croce, in Florence, Alboni, then a sixty-one-year-old lady living in seclusion, wrote to the Italian Foreign Minister, Di Robilant, proposing that the Petite Messe Solennelle, " the last musical composition by Rossini ", be performed in Santa Croce the day of the funeral, and " demanding the honour, as an Italian and a pupil of the immortal Maestro ," of singing it herself in her " dear and beloved homeland ".

Moreover, artistic license permitted such terms to be used for mortal women in Old Norse poetry, or to quote Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál on the various names used for women:

These references to the gods include a character comparing a mortal woman to a god, or saying he would rather be loved by a woman than by the gods.

At the same time, Paul believed that the newly resurrected body would be a heavenly body ; immortal, glorified, powerful and pneumatic in contrast to an earthly body, which is mortal, dishonored, weak and psychic.

* June 1 – Sahajanand Swami, believed to be an incarnation of god by his followers, leaves his mortal body ( b. 1781 ).

In it he writes of Isis, describing her as: " a goddess exceptionally wise and a lover of wisdom, to whom, as her name at least seems to indicate, knowledge and understanding are in the highest degree appropriate ..." and that the statue of Athena ( Plutarch says " whom they believe to be Isis ") in Sais carried the inscription " I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered.

A " deadly sin " can be either venial or mortal, depending on the situation ; but " they are called ' capital ' because they engender other sins, other vices.

Likewise, seeing no reason to stay in the mortal realm if peers are to be recruited from persons of intelligence, the peers agree to join the fairy ranks.