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The origin of her name is believed by some like Robert S. P. Beekes to be Pre-Greek and related to pēnelops ( πηνέλοψ ) or * pēnelōps (* πηνέλωψ ), glossed by Hesychius as " some kind of bird " ( today arbitrarily identified with the Eurasian Wigeon, to which Linnaeus gave the binomial Anas penelope ), where-elōps (- έλωψ ) is a common pre-Greek suffix for predatory animals ;< ref > Zeno. org lemma relating πηνέλωψ ( gen. πηνέλοπος ) and < χην ( ά ) λοπες >· ὄρνεα ( predators ) ποιά.
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In that regard, the mythical seeress Sibyl of Anatolian origin, with her ecstatic art, looks unrelated to the oracle itself.
In another version of her origin, she was considered a daughter of Zeus and Dione, the mother goddess whose oracle was at Dodona.
According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".
But in her effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was toying with the idea of replacing the Balkan area of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in her San Stefano borders — an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.
The exact origin of Dory's impairment is not mentioned in the film, but her memory loss accurately portrays the difficulties facing amnesiacs.
The first song she had performed for him was " Day After Day ", thus the origin of her stage name.
While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.
Hoschander alternatively suggested Ishtar-udda-sha (" Ishtar is her light ") as the origin with the possibility of-udda-sha being connected with the similarly sounding Hebrew name Hadassah.
Those who praised her later as a Protestant heroine overlooked her refusal to drop all practices of Catholic origin from the Church of England.
Her ambition, personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin.
Her one route of social mobility out of her working-class origin was through the traditional way of marriage.
Another important factor was probably the Tsarina's German-Protestant origin: she was definitely highly fascinated by her new Orthodox outlook — the Orthodox religion puts a great deal of faith in the healing powers of prayer.
One account of the origin of the Milky Way is that Zeus had tricked Hera into nursing the infant Heracles: discovering who he was, she pulled him from her breast, and a spurt of her milk formed the smear across the sky that can be seen to this day.
It is most likely to have a Lycian origin, as her earliest cult was centered there.
Talking about the origin of her work, Lin says " My work originates from a simple desire to make people aware of their surroundings and this can include not just the physical but the psychological world that we live in ".
Furthermore, giving to her victories a diabolic origin would have been a conceivable way to alleviate their men's morale.
His paternal grandfather, Marcus Salvius Otho, whose father was a Roman knight but whose mother was of lowly origin and perhaps not even free-born, was raised in Livia's household and rose to senatorial rank through her influence, although he did not advance beyond the rank of praetor.
In 189, assertion of the primacy of the Church of Rome may be indicated in Irenaeus of Lyons's Against Heresies ( 3: 3: 2 ): " With Church of Rome, because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree ... and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition.
Rachael had memories implanted and is not aware she isn't human, however it is later implied this was a ruse and that she knows her her origin and is being used by the corporation to protect other androids from bounty hunters through sexual favors.
In this version of the myth ( lines 60 – 105 ), Hesiod expands upon her origin, and moreover widens the scope of the misery she inflicts on mankind.
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The origin of this sayin' was credited to a saloonkeeper by the name of Luke Murrin.
`` Such a vicious statement can only have its origin in the desire of a new political candidate to try to make his name known by condemning a man of world stature.
The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor.
The name comes from earlier Afrikaans and means " earth pig " or " ground pig " ( aarde earth / ground, varken pig ), because of its burrowing habits ( similar origin to the name groundhog ).
Various theories exist regarding the origin of the name itself.
In the absence of other evidence to show the origin of these curious relics of antiquity the occurrence of a name known as Basilidian on patristic authority has not unnaturally been taken as a sufficient mark of origin, and the early collectors and critics assumed this whole group to be the work of Gnostics.
Another monument near Jerusalem ( not the modern " Absalom Tomb "-" Yad Avshalom " which is of later origin ) was erected by Absalom in his lifetime to perpetuate his name ():
A cadastral survey seems also to have been instituted, and one of the documents relating to it states that a certain Uru-Malik, whose name appears to indicate his Canaanite origin, was governor of the land of the Amorites, or Amurru as the semi-nomadic people of Syria and Canaan were called in Akkadian.
Little is known of Andreas Capellanus's life, but he is presumed to have been a courtier of Marie of Troyes, and probably of French origin ; he is sometimes known by a French translation of his name, André le Chapelain.
There are various accounts concerning the origin of the settlement's name ; one states that Allen and Rumsey decided to name it for their wives, both named Ann, and for the stands of burr oak in the of land they purchased for $ 800 from the federal government at $ 1. 25 per acre.
The name, origin, birth date, and occupation were released by the FBI, but the picture was not of him.
There is some doubt as to the origin of the name ; but most probably it is derived from a collection of Alexandrine romances, collected in the 12th century, of which Alexander the Great was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British Arthur, as the pride and crown of chivalry.
The origin of the name is a mystery but is believed to be aboriginal.
* Anemoi, for the ancient origin of the name of this technology
The name Accrington appears to be Anglo-Saxon in origin.
The origin of the latter name is speculative.
The origin of the name Berlin is unknown, but it may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and be related to the Old Polabian stem berl -/ birl-(" swamp ").
There are several theories concerning the origin of the name banjo.
It is the most widely copied Old English poem, and appears in 45 manuscripts, but its attribution to Bede is not absolutely certain — not all manuscripts name Bede as the author, and the ones that do are of later origin than those that do not.
The origin of the tribal name is uncertain.
His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.
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