This tradition comes from her conflation with the very old chthonic divinity Despoina ( the mistress ), whose real name could not be revealed to anyone except those initiated to her mysteries.

The most commonly recurring characters outside of the Earwicker family are the four old men known collectively as " Mamalujo " ( a conflation of their names: Matt Gregory, Marcus Lyons, Luke Tarpey and Johnny Mac Dougall ).

In 1997 John T. Koch suggested the conflation of a probable primary form * Bernech with the native form * Brïγent for the old civitas Brigantum as a result of Anglian expansion in that territory during the 7th century.

Wallinger's design is of a giant white horse modelled on another of his own racehorses, ' Riviera Red ', and has been described by his supporters as " an absolutely mesmerising conflation of old England and new, of the semi-mythical, past and the six-lanes, all-crawling present ".

are a conflation of the old accusative and dative cases, as well as of the genitive case after prepositions.

This may be a conflation with Mousa ( properly Mosey ), since it comes close to a mention of " Moseyjarborg " ( the Broch of Mousa ), or a mistranscription of " Maey " in the old script.

However, a classically positivist conflation of naturalism with scientism has not disappeared ; this view is still dominant in some old and prestigious schools, such as the sociology departments at the University of Chicago in the United States, and McGill University in Montréal, Canada.

This conflation of case in Middle and Modern English has led most modern grammarians to discard the " accusative " and " dative " labels as obsolete, often using the term " objective " for oblique.

As a result of the conflation, the practice was to wait seven days after menstruation ceases, and for the woman to then immerse herself in water.

The Kebra Nagast is divided into 117 chapters, and, even after a single reading, one can see that it is clearly a composite work ; Ullendorff describes its narrative " a gigantic conflation of legendary cycles.

An apocryphal story holds that aquavit actually means " water from the vine ," a picturesque folk etymology derived through conflation of Latin vītae ( genitive of vita ) with the Italian vite ( vine ).

The conflation of the two types of degrees can be counterproductive in the following cases:

This is essentially a reworking of Further Adventures of Doctor Syn with a different conclusion and some conflation and renaming of the supporting characters.

As it arises from a conflation with a Greek word, there is no corresponding verb.

" He, too, is from Padua, and his name is Baptista Minola, which Oxfordians take to be a conflation of Baptista Nigrone and Pasquino Spinola.

In practice it is reduced from Lyell's conflation to simply the two philosophical assumptions.

A common interpretation today is that Atlas was forced to hold the Earth on his shoulders, but Classical art shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not a globe ; the solidity of the marble globe born by the renowned Farnese Atlas may have aided the conflation, reinforced in the 16th century by the developing usage of atlas to describe a corpus of terrestrial maps.

The word ampersand is a conflation of the phrase " and per se and ", meaning " and symbol which by itself and ".

However, ontological being and existential being are different categories, so Heidegger's conflation of these categories is, according to Husserl's view, the root of Heidegger's error.

HCE is at first referred to as " Harold or Humphrey Chimpden "; a conflation of these names as " Haromphreyld ", and as a consequence of his initials " Here Comes Everybody ".

Ovid's conflation of the goddesses is likely to have been his poetic invention, but it has also been conjectured that Carna was a contracted form of Cardina, and at minimum Ovid was observing that their traditions were congruent.

Ninus (), according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was accepted as the eponymous founder of Nineveh ( also called Νίνου πόλις " city of Ninus " in Greek ), Ancient capital of Assyria, although he does not seem to represent any one personage known to modern history, and is more likely a conflation of several real and / or fictional figures of antiquity, as seen to the Greeks through the mists of time.

The distinctive nine-panelled compartmentalised ceiling is a conflation of two ceilings derived from The Queen's House at Greenwich and The Banqueting House at Whitehall, both designed by Inigo Jones and both Royal apartments.

Shakespeare's largest departure from Hall and Holinshed is in his conflation of the Cade rebellion, York's return from Ireland and the Battle of St Albans into one continuous sequence.

One characteristic of postmodern art is its conflation of high and low culture through the use of industrial materials and pop culture imagery.

It is sometimes misleadingly called the " Chinese unicorn " due to conflation with the unicorn by Westerners.

Hungarian nationalist composers, like Bartók, rejected the conflation of Hungarian and Roma music, studying the rural peasant songs of Hungary which, according to music historian Bruno Nettl, " has little in common with " Roma music, a position that is held to by some modern writers, such as the Hungarian author Bálint Sárosi.

Although microcredit is one of the aspects of microfinance, conflation of the two terms is endemic in public discourse.

How, when or why this occurred is uncertain, but is commonly attributed to a conflation with Babylonian Shamash, who – in addition to being a Sun god – was a judicial figure like Mithra.

" D. Michael Quinn says that Smith's account is a conflation of events over several years, a typical biographical device for streamlining the narrative.

Shatsthala is a conflation of Shat and Sthala, which means ' six phases / states / levels ' through which a soul advances in its ultimate quest of realisation of the Supreme.

The Apocynaceae is the result of a conflation of the two families.

Clausewitz's Christian names are sometimes given in non-German sources as " Carl Philipp Gottlieb " or " Carl Maria ", because of reliance on mistaken source material, conflation with his wife's name, Marie, or mistaken assumptions about German orthography.

The Canadian dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, who was one of three women who initiated an application in the Ontario Superior Court seeking invalidation of Canada's laws regarding brothels, sought to differentiate for clarity her occupation as a dominatrix rather than a prostitute to the media, due to frequent misunderstanding and conflation by the public of the two terms.

It was also around this time that the legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus developed as a conflation of the Egyptian god Thoth and the Greek Hermes ; this figure was associated with both writing and magic, and therefore of books on magic.

Sumeria had a base-60 system with a decimal subbase ( perhaps a conflation of the decimal and a duodecimal systems of its constituent peoples ), which was the origin of the numbering of modern degrees, minutes, and seconds.

Satyrs acquired their goat-like aspect through later Roman conflation with Faunus, a carefree Italic nature spirit of similar characteristics and identified with the Greek god Pan.

Boris Godunov has seldom been performed in either of the two forms left by the composer, frequently being subjected to cuts, recomposition, re-orchestration, transposition of scenes, conflation of the original and revised versions, or translation into another language.

However, changing social customs and standards also create new taboos, such as bans on slavery ; conflation of ephebophilia with pedophilia ; prohibitions on alcohol, tobacco, or psychopharmaceutical consumption ( particularly among pregnant women ); and the employment of politically correct euphemismsat times quite unsuccessfullyto mitigate various forms of discrimination.

W. Atallah suggests that the later Hellenistic myth of Adonis represents the conflation of two independent traditions.

Andrew Jackson, who had first spoken of " extending the area of freedom ", typified the conflation of America's greatness, the nation's budding sense of Romantic self-identity and expansion.

A conflation, over time, of the lance, the flowers and the flames with the conserved spearhead, used as a sceptre, seems altogether more likely than the symbol of royalty of France deriving from a flower growing near an obscure little river in Frisia.

The stone overmantels are a conflation of two designs by Inigo Jones and contain mythological paintings by Jean Baptiste Monnoyer ( 1636 – 99 ) and the Venetian painter Sebastiano Ricci who also carried out commissions at Burlington House in Piccadilly.