In the Iliad, Apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the terrible Vedic god of disease Rudra.

He is pictured as a terrible god, less trusted by the Greeks than other gods.

Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.

Although Orestes ’ actions were what the god Apollo had commanded him to do, Orestes had still committed matricide and because of this, he was pursued by the terrible Erinyes.

But Ndengei is also a god of wrath who declares himself in terrible fashion.

The theonym Shiva originates as an epithet of Rudra, the adjective shiva " kind " being used euphemistically of the god who in the Rigveda also carries the epithet ghora " terrible ".

He has called Allah a " terrible god ", and has characterized Muslim beliefs as antithetical to freedom of speech and women's rights:

Cyäegha's worshippers draw upon the deity for vitality but also greatly fear awakening the god for its wrath is said to be terrible.

Ironically, since Nurgle is a god of disease, he will afflict those who worship him with terrible infectious ' gifts ', but they will become resistant to these and in turn, be all but immune to the effects of illness, pain and injury.

Faust then takes control of the Annihilator, an extremely powerful magical automaton forged by the Greek god Hephaestus, taken by the Justice League and then stolen by Cadmus, and uses it to take over Tartarus, overthrowing Hades, but at the same time, creating a terrible unbalance between the realms of the living and the dead.

None of the legends warn those who summon Ame no Murakumo of the terrible price that the god of swords demands to restore the world.

In hot war-field, the Kambojas have been described as elephants gone berserk ( durvarana nama Kamboja ); war-intoxicated warriors, biting the lips in rage as they fought ( damshitah krurakarmanah Kamboja yuddhadurmadah ); Death-personified ( samana. mrityavo ); deadly like cobras ( tikshnai. rashivishopamah ), and terrible like Yama the god of death and rich like Kouber the god of wealth ( Yama vaishravan. opamah ) etc.

The newspaper Vísir wrote about this in a jocular tone, noting that " the representatives of the Ásatrúarmenn got rather vague answers from the minister, — and apparently that's what Thor the thunder god thought as well, because as the visit was at an end and the minister stood up to follow the guests to the door there was a terrible thunder in the center of Reykjavík, causing damage close to the office of the ministry ".

The rocking is actually felt in the story, a terrible and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy.

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

If one asks about this play, what it is that comes upon this community and works within it with such terrible power, there is no better answer to give than `` spirit ''.

Yet such is the dramatic power of his writing that the audience is nevertheless left in the grip of the terrible power and potency of that which came over Salem.

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

Paneloux is at pains to emphasize that God did not will the calamity: " He looked on the evil-doing in the town with compassion ; only when there was no other remedy did He turn His face away, in order to force people to face the truth about their life " In Paneloux's view, even the terrible suffering caused by the plague works ultimately for good.

However, if this approach is naïvely adopted, then moral agents who, for example, recklessly fail to reflect on their situation, and act in a way that brings about terrible results, could be said to be acting in a morally justifiable way.

We have seen the cause of democracy, which is, in our view, the cause of civilisation and humanity, receive a terrible defeat ... The events of these last few days constitute one of the greatest diplomatic defeats that this country and France have ever sustained.

The resulting battle of Brunanburh — Dún Brunde — is reported in the Annals of Ulster as follows: a great battle, lamentable and terrible was cruelly fought ... in which fell uncounted thousands of the Northmen.

In the Book of Malachi, Elijah's return is prophesied " before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord ," making him a harbinger of the Messiah and the eschaton in various faiths that revere the Hebrew Bible.

" A terrible wind passes, but God is not in the wind.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

In verse, after Loki has flyted with the goddess Frigg, Freyja interjects, telling Loki that he is insane for dredging up his terrible deeds, and that Frigg knows the fate of everyone, though she does not tell it.

The terrible food is the center of most of the jokes, along with the poor management.

Perhaps I am wrong to say that ; nevertheless, we will not see him again, as we have seen him for these many years, we will not run to him for advice or seek solace from him, and that is a terrible blow, not only for me, but for millions and millions in this country.

A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.

Aging but still precocious, French feline enfant terrible Francoisette Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again, this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The Lascivious Interlude, the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in love with a middle-aged steam shovel.

Public safety workers have called the walkway safety handrails in the Big Dig tunnels " ginsu guardrails ", because the sharp, squared-off edges of the support posts have caused terrible mutilations and deaths of passengers ejected from crashed vehicles.

" The critic Pauline Kael called De Mille " a sanctimonious manipulator-used to satisfy the voyeuristic needs of the God-abiding by showing them what they were missing by being good and then soothe them by showing them the terrible punishments they escaped by being good.

Blazing up and terrible in his anger, he called out: " You in your plunder, torn from one of mine, shall I be robbed of you?

The terrible condition in which Pope Gregory XIII had left the ecclesiastical states called for prompt and stern measures.

" The next witnesses called were witnesses concerned with the question that now followed -- the obscure and terrible question: Who Poisoned Her?

:' But Jason called to mind the counsels of Medea full of craft, and seized from the plain a huge round boulder, a terrible quoit of Ares Enyalius ; four stalwart youths could not have raised it from the ground even a little.

The Guardian writes that his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis called a " terrible compulsive vividness in his style ... that constant demonstrating of his command of English ," and that the " Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop ".

Toward that end, Heaven has created the Goddess Technical Helpline ( also called Goddess Relief Agency ), designed to bring happiness to the people of Earth, especially those with great virtue but terrible misfortune.

" Berg even called the film a “ bastardization .” Because of what Salinger's agent later called "' a terrible movie ' made in the 1950s " of one of his stories, the author never again relinquished control of his work to Hollywood filmmakers, despite persistent interest in adapting his most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye, for the screen.

Her mother Grace, who described Stéphanie as a " warm, bright, amusing, intelligent and capable girl " and a " good athlete ", lovingly called her " wild child " ( French: enfant terrible ).

Lluis Bonet, writing in La Vanguardia, called the film " a terrible tender love story ", agreeing with the director that the best scene was that in which Marina, initially held hostage by Ricky against her will, finally asks to be tied up by him so she will not be tempted to flee from the love he has successfully provoked in her.

But at length by many hands overcome, Goemagog, the hugest, in hight twelve cubits, is reserved alive ; that with him Corineus, who desired nothing more, might try his strength, whom in a Wrestle the Giant catching aloft, with a terrible hugg broke three of his Ribs: Nevertheless Corineus, enraged, heaving him up by main force, and on his shoulders bearing him to the next high rock, threw him hedlong all shatter'd into the sea, and left his name on the cliff, called ever since Langoemagog, which is to say, the Giant's Leap.

The entire matter was called " a terrible thing to do to the American people " by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Deinotherium (" terrible beast " derived from the Ancient Greek deinos / δεινός meaning " terrible " and thirion / θηρίον meaning " beast "), also called the Hoe tusker, was a large prehistoric relative of modern-day elephants that appeared in the Middle Miocene and continued until the Early Pleistocene.

And in another passage, in the episode called “ Breslech Maighe Muirthemhne ,” where a terrible description is given of Cuchullain ’ s fury at seeing the hostile armies of the south and west encamped within the borders of Uladh, we are told ( Book of Leinster, fol. 54, a2, and b1 ):

On 7 June 2009 on the BBC Falconer called for an urgent debate on Gordon Brown's leadership, as Labour braced itself for " terrible " election results at the 2009 European Parliament Elections, having been humiliated at the 2009 County Council elections.

Ralph Smart looked at them, hated them, and called up the second unit director and said " Look, these are terrible, you'll never be a film director ," and then he fired him.

A terrible storm in 1859 that caused the loss of the Royal Charter inspired FitzRoy to develop charts to allow predictions to be made, which he called " forecasting the weather ", thus coining the term weather forecast Fifteen land stations were established to use the new telegraph to transmit to him daily reports of weather at set times.

Bhairava with his consort, Bhairavi. She is also called Shubhamkari, good mother to good people and terrible to bad ones.

Lowell called the act " a terrible piece of youthful callousness.