A tribe in ancient India believed the earth was a huge tea tray resting on the backs of three giant elephants, which in turn stood on the shell of a great tortoise.

) At the intercession of Moses, Aaron was saved from the plague which smote the people ( Deuteronomy 9: 20, Exodus 32: 35 ), although it was against Aaron ’ s tribe of Levi that the work of punitive vengeance was committed ( Exodus 32: 26 ).

Also, Caracalla perhaps felt more comfortable about campaigning in the upper Main because he was not declaring war on any specific historic tribe, such as the Chatti or Cherusci, against whom Rome had suffered grievous losses.

Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.

He was born at Thurii ( in present day Calabria, Italy ) in Magna Graecia and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen, being enrolled in the deme Oion () and the tribe Leontides.

Zainab was the daughter of a wealthy merchant from Houara ( a Masmuda tribe ), who is said to be from Kairouan in origin.

Abu Bakr was born in Mecca some time in 573 CE, to a rich family in the Banu Taym clan of the Quraysh tribe.

Though his father, Uthman Abu Quhafa, was still alive, he came to be recognized as chief of his tribe.

From the 17th century onward, the island of Abadan was part of the lands of the Arab Ka ' ab ( Bani Kaab ) tribe.

Although the Yemenites were not natural allies ( the Umayyads are a Qaysid tribe ), their interest was piqued.

The name appears to have been derived from Yussuf ben-Serragh, the head of the tribe in the time of Mohammed VII of Granada, al-Mustain, who did that sovereign good service in his struggles to retain the crown of which he was three times deprived.

It was also built to keep the peace among the local British Iron Age tribe, the Silures.

In this struggle it was important not only to be able to handle a club, but also to possess the ability to think reasonably, to take care of the knowledge and experience garnered by the tribe, and to develop the links that would provide cooperation with other tribes.

Haznawi belonged to a family that was part of the larger, al-Ghamdi tribe, sharing the same tribal affiliation with fellow hijackers Saeed al-Ghamdi, Hamza al-Ghamdi, and Ahmed al-Ghamdi.

In historical times, around 300 BC it was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci, who named the town Burdigala, probably of Aquitainian origin.

In 107 BC, the Battle of Burdigala was fought by the Romans who were defending the Allobroges, an allied Roman tribe, and the Tigurini led by Divico.

The bodyguard, Indus, was of the Batavian tribe.

The Batavi were still mentioned in 355 during the reign of Constantius II ( 317-361 ), when their island was already dominated by the Salii, a Frankish tribe that had sought Roman protection there in 297 after having been expelled from their own country by the Saxons.

" It has been assumed they merged with the Salii shortly before or after and, after having been expelled by another tribe ( it has been proposed this was the Chamavi ), shared their subsequent migration to Toxandria.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

According to Strabo, writing two centuries after the events, rather than being destroyed by the Romans like their Celtic neighbours, " the Boii were merely driven out of the regions they occupied ; and after migrating to the regions round about the Ister, lived with the Taurisci, and carried on war against the Daci until they perished, tribe and all — and thus they left their country, which was a part of Illyria, to their neighbours as a pasture-ground for sheep.

The " warrior " derivation was adopted by the linguist, Julius Pokorny, who presented it as being from Indo-European * bhei ( ə )-, * bhī -, " hit ;" however, not finding any Celtic names close to it ( except for the Boii ), he adduces examples somewhat more widely from originals further back in time: phohiio-s -, a Venetic personal name ; Boioi, an Illyrian tribe ; Boiōtoi, a Greek tribal name (" the Boeotians ") and a few others.

In England, chariot burials are characteristic of, and almost confined to, the Iron Age Arras culture associated with the Parisii tribe.

Dar al-Manasir is confined by the upstream living Rubatab tribe ( الرباطاب ) in the area of Abu Hamed ( أبو حمد ) ( E 33. 18 °) and the downstream Shaiqiyah tribe ( الشايقية ) past the village of Birti ( E 32. 15 °), ( cf.

However, they have set a secondary set of recommendations for what the criteria for state recognition should be in case the state government should wish to bypass the first recommendation: " A state action should ( 1 ) create a government-to-government relationship between state and tribe, ( 2 ) set forth an explicit rendering of the state's interpretation of ' recognition ,' ( 3 ) be confined only to groups descended from Seminole, Miccosukee, Creek, or a tribe located in Florida prior to May 30, 1830, and ( 4 ) meet federal criteria for recognition.

By the end of Judges the Israelites are in a worse condition than they were at the beginning, with Yahweh's treasures used to make idolatrous images, the Levites ( priests ) corrupted, the tribe of Dan conquering a remote village instead of the Canaanite cities, and the tribes of Israel making war on the Benjamites, their own brothers.

By 1986, Moi had concentrated all the power-and most of its attendant economic benefits-into the hands of his Kalenjin tribe and of a handful of allies from minority groups.

By AD 1500, the two divisions of the tribe had established a kingdom stretching from north of the present-day city of Nkhotakota to the Zambezi River in the south, and from Lake Malawi in the east, to the Luangwa River in Zambia in the west.

By the 11th and 12th century, the nomadic confederacy of the Cumans and ( Eastern ) Kipchaks ( who are considered to be either the eastern branch of the Cumans or a distinct but related tribe with whom the Cumans created a confederacy ) were the dominant force over the vast territories stretching from the present-day Kazakhstan, southern Russia, Ukraine, to southern Moldavia and western Wallachia.

By the early Middle Ages the Warmians, an Old Prussian tribe, inhabited the area.

By the 11th century, East Slavs assimilated the Uralic tribes Merya and Muroma, and the Baltic tribe Eastern Galindae that inhabited the same area ( now Central Russia ).

By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnee, an Algonquian tribe, were the primary tribe of Native Americans living in what would become Athens County.

By 444, all the Spanish provinces bar Hispania Tarraconensis had been lost to the Germanic tribe, and even Tarraconensis was under pressure due to continued Bagaudic uprisings.

By the end of the Mississippian period the land was claimed and populated by the Chickasaw tribe.

By the late 17th-century, however, the Cherokee — whose ancestors were living in the mountains at the time of the Spaniards ' visit — had become the dominant tribe in the region.

By 1750, the Osage had become a dominant tribe in the area.

By the bill's definition, Kennewick Man would have been classified as Native American, regardless of whether any link to a contemporary tribe could be found.

By all accounts a peaceful tribe, the Tataviam were Christianized under the San Fernando Mission.

By the 18th century, the Ojibwe were the dominant tribe in present-day Michigan.

By the mid-eighteenth century, the Omaha tribe lived on the west side of the Missouri River throughout this area.

By the time of European encounter, the Osage was a major tribe in the area.

By the 18th century, the Cherokee had become the dominant tribe in the East Tennessee region, although they were consistently at war with the Creeks and Shawnee.

By the time around the birth of Christ, the inhabitants of Rügen were part of the East Germanic tribe of Rugii, who roughly occupied the region that was later to become Western Pomerania and who gave the island its name.

By his nomen, it can be told that he ( or one of his male ancestors ) was made a Roman citizen ( and thus, the tribe a Roman vassal ) by either Augustus or Caligula.

By the early 1800s, they declared their tribe fully relocated and said that remnant Tuscarora who stayed in the South would no longer be considered part of the tribe.

By 1910, only one old woman in the tribe could not speak English and more than 80 percent were literate.

By the time Europeans arrived, the local Indians had been devastated by disease ; also, the tribal chief, Nanepashemet, had been killed by a rival tribe in about 1619.

By this time in his life he had already gone through bogwera ( the tribe ’ s traditional initiation ceremony into manhood ) with members of his mephato ( age regiment ).