These myths associate chaos with evil and oblivion, in contrast to " order " ( cosmos ) which is the good.

These myths often depict creation as the result of a sexual union, and serve as genealogical record of the deities born from it.

These myths tend to emphasize creative forces as animistic in nature rather than sexual, and depict the sacred as the elemental and integral component of the natural world.

These eschatological myths appeared " in the Crusades, in the movements of a Tanchelm and an Eudes de l ' Etoile, in the elevation of Fredrick II to the rank of Messiah, and in many other collective messianic, utopian, and prerevolutionary phenomena ".

These two gifts were intimately connected in Demeter's myths and mystery cults.

These myths of the earliest stage of humankind have been referred to by various cultures, societies, and religions:

These myths also express some hope that the idyllic state of affairs they describe is not irretrievably and irrevocably lost to mankind, that it can be regained in some way or other.

These painters used delicate colors and curving forms, decorating their canvases with cherubs and myths of love.

These myths generally portray Osiris as a wise lord, king, and bringer of civilization, happily married to his sister, Isis.

These Greek stories of the Titanomachy fall into a class of similar myths throughout Europe and the Near East, where one generation or group of gods by and large opposes the dominant one.

These myths, told around fires at night, often to the accompaniment of drumming and choral responses, aim to teach children moral behavior and to entertain.

These myths also exploit religion as a powerful force in human society ; by controlling the particulars of religion, the Bene Gesserit have a manipulative lever on society in general.

These myths in turn may derive from an earlier Hittite myth concerning the battle between the Storm God Tarhun and the dragon Illuyankas.

She believed there to be a direct connection between the belief in and accounts of familiar spirits with these folk tales because " These fairy stories and myths originate from the same reservoir of folk belief as the descriptions of familiar-encounters given by cunning-folk and witches ".

These myths refer specifically to Pygocentrus nattereri, the red-bellied piranha.

These myths were dismissed through research by Helder Queiroz and Anne Magurran and published on Biology Letters.

These designs represent religious themes, humans, animals, and scenes of ceremonies and myths reflecting their perception of the world.

These included myths and legends, and the hula, which had been forbidden — due to the influence of Protestant missionaries — for over 70 years.

These three universes are deftly intertwined so that the stories or myths told by the grandmother naturally become the setting for make-believe play, punctuated by routine farm events.

These myths have been debunked.

These are the ' aimu ' who frequently appear in the stories and myths.

These myths show the people ' akamba ' awareness of the spirit world and its nearness to that of human beings.

These myths are not understood literally, but rather figuratively or metaphorically as reflecting ancient understandings and worldviews.

These days many of the old myths and legends are celebrated in the wayang performance that became a vehicle to combine the syncretic philosophies from outside with those philosophies and ideas already rooted within the local cultures and traditions.

These myths often have been quoted and cited, as various millers lent credence to their stories by publishing them in leaflets, available to the visiting public.

These were the ones Keith sought out -- the loners, the ones who killed for the joy of it, like himself.

These were the last words he ever uttered.

These two were going to be easy pickins.

These performances were being staged at historical monuments throughout Europe.

These were Oneida Indians.

These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.

These basic ideas concerning the nature of religion were, Adams believed, some of the major keys to the understanding of history and the movement of society.

These were his public academic activities, domi forisque, in the college and in the university.

These early experiments were evidently not altogether satisfying to Patchen.

These people were not talking much about it, but you, a foreigner, sensed their apprehension and disappointment.

These public efforts were rare because Mr. Rayburn normally did his counseling, persuading and educating long before an issue reached its test on the House floor.

These microfossils indicate the swamp was `` formed during the Lower Cretaceous period when dinosaurs were at their heyday and when the first flowering plants were just appearing.

These were heroes nine feet tall to him ''.

These little songs, however, were sweet nothings from the heart, tender memories of his childhood, little melodies that anyone could hum and that would make one want to weep.

These were the ships of His Majesty's Navy, herding the hulks of the East Indies merchants and the yachts and ketches of the loyalists.

These trumps were more touching than they were anything else, and seemed to imply that the nights were long, her children ungrateful, and her marriage bewilderingly threadbare.

These were selected carefully and included not only detailed clinical information but adequate pathology of value for research and educational purposes.

These amendments to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act were designed to help provide for more specialized rehabilitation facilities, for more sheltered and `` half-way '' workshops, for greater numbers of adequately trained personnel, for more comprehensive services to individuals ( particularly to the homebound and the blind ), and for other administrative improvements to increase the program's overall effectiveness.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

These curves were derived by an analysis of extensive skywave measurement data.

These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.

These boys acknowledged an introduction to anybody by gently pressing one of his hands in both of theirs, while they gazed, misty-eyed with care, into the eyes of the person they were meeting.