On the three plinths radiating from the central column there are figures representing Diana, the goddess of purity ; a group representing the good things of the earth ; Theseus slaying a Minotaur, representing the sacrifice for the good of humanity.

His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.

Ares, upon one occasion, incurred the anger of Poseidon by slaying his son Halirrhothius, who had raped Alcippe, another daughter of the war-god.

Another kind of lawful slaying belongs to the civil authorities, to whom is entrusted power of life and death, by the legal and judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent.

The victors at Delphi were presented with a laurel crown ( stephanos ) which was ceremonially cut from a tree by a boy who re-enacted the slaying of the Python.

The slaying of Vrtra by Indra in the Rigveda also belongs in this category.

The most notable human rights abuses of this period were the brutal slaying of Bishop Juan José Gerardi two days after he had publicly presented a major Catholic Church sponsored human rights report known as REMHI, and the disappearance of Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, also known as Comandante Everardo, who, it was later revealed, was tortured and assassinated in 1993 without trial by Guatemalan Army officers on the payroll of the CIA.

In the camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundred, and I have often thought that as Mrs. White would read the same and knowing that I lived near, she would pray for my appearance and that she might be saved.

Urubhanga, a Sanskrit play written by Bhāsa who is believed to have lived before Kālidāsa, is based on the slaying of Duryodhana by the splitting of his thighs by Bhima.

According to Widsith and the Danish sources Offa successfully conquered the Myrgings, possibly a clan of Saxon origin, and incorporated their land into Angel or Danish lands, by slaying two Myrging princes in single combat and installing himself as their king.

One depicts the abduction of the princess Europa by the god Jupiter who is disguised as a bull, whilst the other depicts Bellerophon slaying the Chimaera, whilst surrounded by four sea creatures.

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine, Buffy continues slaying vampires in San Francisco but discovers a new threat: creatures dubbed " zompires " by Xander: feral and nearly mindless vampires created when vampires sire people after the destruction of the Seed, as demons can no longer enter this dimension to fully possess their bodies.

According to, Seth was born after the slaying of Abel by Cain, and Eve believed God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel.

Therefore, the slaying of Osiris represents the struggle between order and disorder, and the disruption of life by death.

Leia displays her powers of the lightsaber by slaying a fully trained Dark Jedi, even before training under Master Sebatyne.

In polytheistic creation, the world often comes into being organically, e. g. sprouting from a primal seed, sexually, by miraculous birth ( sometimes by parthenogenesis ), by hieros gamos, violently, by the slaying of a primeval monster, or artificially, by a divine demiurge or " craftsman ".

* The Carthaginian general Hannibal proves his superiority in tactics by inflicting a severe defeat at Herdonia in Apulia upon a proconsular army, slaying the consul Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus Maximus.

After slaying Hector and other heroes, Achilles dies by an arrow.

The episode is referenced in Plutarch's Life of Theseus, in description of Theseus ' method of slaying his assailants by returning " the same sort of violence that they offered to him ," as Heracles killed Termerus by “ breaking his skull in pieces ( whence, they say, comes the proverb of ' a Termerian mischief '), for it seems Termerus killed passengers that he met by running with his head against them .”

This was the case in Cú Chulainn's slaying of Fer Diad.

He is remembered in particular for his extensive reporting on the case of Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman who was convicted and sentenced to death in August 1913 for the slaying of a thirteen-year-old girl.

Once one side coaxed their opposing infantry into breaking formation, the cavalry would be deployed in an attempt to exploit the loss of cohesion in the opposing infantry lines and begin slaying the infantrymen in the pandemonium.

In the Age of X reality, Cannonball and Husk are shown breaking mutants out of prison and slaying the mutant hunters.

The Constitution established: the security of the community, religious freedoms, the role of Medina as a haram or sacred place ( barring all violence and weapons ), the security of women, stable tribal relations within Medina, a tax system for supporting the community in time of conflict, parameters for exogenous political alliances, a system for granting protection of individuals, a judicial system for resolving disputes, and also regulated the paying of Blood money ( the payment between families or tribes for the slaying of an individual in lieu of lex talionis ).

The Constitution established: the security of the community, religious freedoms, the role of Medina as a haram or sacred place ( barring all violence and weapons ), the security of women, stable tribal relations within Medina, a tax system for supporting the community in time of conflict, parameters for exogenous political alliances, a system for granting protection of individuals, a judicial system for resolving disputes, and also regulated the paying of blood money ( the payment between families or tribes for the slaying of an individual in lieu of lex talionis ).

He was a knight of the Round Table, `` Sir Quintus the Brave '', slaying evil spirits and banshees and vampires and witches with warty noses.

According to Mircea Eliade, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with the slaying of dragons, a theme which Eliade traces back to " the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a divine hero and a dragon.

A battle culminates in the slaying of the young Siward and Macduff's confrontation with Macbeth, and the English forces overwhelm his army and castle.

Calvert and his group is tasked with finding Dr Mzu, who is believed to be searching for her doomsday weapon to complete her dream of slaying the Omutan people.

***" Althea prayed instantly to the gods, being grieved for her brother's slaying ; and furthermore instantly beat with her hands upon the all-nurturing earth, calling upon Hades and dread Persephone " ( 9, 569 )

Sidetes ' campaign initially met with spectacular success, recapturing Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Media ; defeating and slaying the Parthian Satrap of Seleucia-on-Tigris in personal combat.

Her husband, convicted of slaying him, he delivers from peril of death, reconciles him with his brothers, and thereafter discreetly enjoys his lady.

Beginning with his self nomination as hunter, Jack eventually degenerates into the beast he is consumed with slaying.

Gandalf fell with the Balrog into the uttermost depths of Moria and fought the Balrog all the way up the Endless Stair, finally slaying it by throwing it from the peak of Celebdil, but sacrificing his own life in doing so.

Prior to his first visitation date with Zackary, an unknown assailant shot Gilbride dead by automatic weapon fire as he sat in his car shortly after midnight on September 27 while parked outside his home in an execution-style slaying.

Nevertheless, other classical rabbinical texts mock the tribe for the character it has in the deuteronomic history, claiming that Ephraim, being headstrong, left Egypt 30 years prior to the Exodus, and on arrival in Canaan was subjected to a disastrous battle with the Philistines ; in the Midrashic Jasher this is portrayed as a rebellion of Ephraim against God, resulting in the slaying of all but 10, and the bleached bones of the slaughtered being strewn across the roads, so much so that the circuitous route of the Exodus was simply an attempt by God to prevent the Israelites from having to suffer the sight of the remains.

One legend states that the town derives its name from Luba, a young man credited with slaying a giant bear that had been terrifying the inhabitants.

Seven years later, Orestes returned from Athens and with his sister Electra avenged his father's death by slaying his mother and her lover Aegisthus.

After slaying the boar, Meleagros presented the skin to a female member of the party, Atalanta, with whom he was smitten.

On hearing him enter, she tried to escape, but Xanthius hit her with a dagger, thinking that he was slaying the seducer, and killed her.

After slaying the lion, he tried to skin it with a knife from his belt, but failed.

* The Lernaean Hydra, another one of Typhon's daughters, terrorized a spring at the lake of Lerna, near Argos, slaying anyone and anything that approached her lair with her noxious venom, save for a monstrous crab that was her companion.

Furthermore, the slaying of Typhon by Zeus bears similarities to the killing of Vritra by Indra ( a deity also associated with lightning and storms ), and possibly the two stories are ultimately derived from a common Indo-European source.

Comparisons can also be drawn with the Mesopotamian monster Tiamat and its slaying by Babylonian chief god Marduk.

In one verse of a Rig-Vedic hymn eulogising Sarasvati, the latter is credited with the slaying of Vritra.