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.

According to Strabo their territory was divided in accordance with custom, each tribe was further divided into cantons, each governed by a military aristocratic ruler whose title chief of the tribe gave him the powers of a King-Priest (' tetrarch ').

The Muckleshoot constitution, adopted in 1936 and ratified in 1941, determined that the tribe would be governed by a Muckleshoot Tribal Council of nine elected members.

The northern part of Luristan, formerly known as Lurikuchik (' Little Luristan '), was governed by independent princes of the Khurshidi dynasty, styled atabegs, from the beginning of the 17th century when the last atabeg, Shah Verdi Khan, was removed by Persian Shah Abbas I and the government of the province given to Husain Khan, the chief of a rival tribe.

This supersedes the right of citizens to be governed under different personal laws based on their religion or caste or tribe.

A few leaders governed the tribe.

It is governed by the General Tribal Council, which consists of all voting-age members of the tribe.

Arasibo governed a tribe whose village was located by the shore of the river " Abacoa " ( now known as the " Río Grande de Arecibo ").

The Damara are divided into tribes each governed by a chief but the tribe has only one King, King Justus Garoeb that rules over them.

Cotuí was the name of an aboriginal Caribbean tribe leader ( Cotoy ) who governed the area.

It is governed by the Pyramid Lake Paiute tribe ( Cui Ui Ticutta ).

The tribe is governed by a Constitution, which the band members wrote together, to create the tribe following the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.

The Maghrawa or Meghrawa ( Berber: imeghrawen ) were a Berber Zenata tribe originating from west-central Algeria that governed parts of Morocco, on behalf of the Umayyads of Córdoba, in the end of the 10th century and the first half of the 11th century.

In ancient times, a fortification near Trajan's bridge named Zanes / Pontes existed at this location, the area was governed by the Dacian Albocense tribe.

The tribe is governed by an elected eleven-member Council, including an elected Chief and Vice-Chief.

The flowers of the ' Hopi Red Dye ' amaranth were used by the Hopi ( a tribe in the western United States ) as the source of a deep red dye.

After a few centuries, following an incident where the Goths ' women successfully fended off a raid by a neighboring tribe, while the menfolk were off campaigning against Pharaoh Vesosis, the women formed their own army under Marpesia and crossed the Don, invading Asia.

This is another area influenced by native Indians, particularly by the Guaraní tribe.

The Arawaks inhabited the islands until the 15th century when they were displaced by the more aggressive Caribs, a tribe from the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea is named.

Another likely ancestor of the banjo is the akonting, a spike folk lute played by the Jola tribe of Senegambia, and the ubaw-akwala of the Igbo.

The description of Benjamin being born after the arrival in Canaan is thought by some scholars to refer to the tribe of Benjamin coming into existence by branching from the Joseph group after the tribe had settled in Canaan.

180 BC, he describes them then as " similar in language and customs " to the Scordisci, a tribe of Illyria described as Celtic by Strabo ( although he adds that they had mingled with Illyrians and Thracians ).

After nearly 20 years of slavish adherence to the Roman Senate's dictats, Philip had been goaded beyond endurance by the incessant and devastating raiding of the Dardani, a warlike Thraco-Illyrian tribe on his northern border, which his treaty-limited army was too small to counter effectively.

The Bastarnae provided the casus belli by crossing the Haemus and attacking the Dentheletae, a Thracian tribe who were Roman allies.

Such numbers may have amounted to a substantial proportion, if not all, of the Peucini Bastarnae: Victor claims that the Carpi resettled in Pannonia by Diocletian at the same time, together with those previously transferred by Aurelian, amounted to the entire Carpi tribe.

Its large size puts it as the third largest in the Bovidae tribe of Strepsicerotini ; behind both the Common and Greater Eland by about, and above the Greater Kudu by about.