The upwards looking depiction of the earthly group matches the Eastern liturgy on the Feast of the Ascension: " Come, let us rise and turn our eyes and thoughts high ..."

The biographies have Demetrius as a young man of senatorial family who was run through with spears in around 306 AD in Thessaloniki, during the Christian persecutions of the emperor Diocletian or Galerius, which matches his depiction in the 7th century mosaics.

One traditional depiction of the cherubim and chariot vision, based on the description by Ezekiel.

S. Ukasha, 51One traditional depiction of the cherubim and chariot vision, based on the description by Ezekiel.

This technical description of a coat of arms is the standard that is adhered to no matter what artistic interpretations may be made in a particular depiction of the arms.

This very brief description from 1823 is not an accurate depiction of the process.

" Angler on a Wintry Lake ," painted in 1195 by Ma Yuan ( painter ) | Ma Yuan, featuring the oldest known depiction of a fishing reel, although the oldest description of a fishing reel in China dates to the 3rd century AD

Thomas Gray, the 18th-century poet, combined Marlowe's depiction of Isabella with William Shakespeare's description of Margaret of Anjou ( the wife of Henry VI ) as the " She-Wolf of France ", to produce the anti-French poem The Bard, in which Isabella rips apart the bowels of Edward II with her " unrelenting fangs ".

The book is a graphically violent depiction of a future race war in the United States, which includes a detailed description of the mass hangings-" the Day of the Rope "- of many " race traitors " ( especially Jews, gay people, and those in inter-racial marriages or relationships ) in the public streets of Los Angeles, followed by the systematic ethnic cleansing of the entire city.

It is also the description of such surface shapes and features ( especially their depiction in maps ).

A passage of the 10th-century poem Haustlöng where the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir gives a lengthy description of a richly detailed shield he has received that features a depiction of the abduction of Iðunn.

From the correspondence between Landa's description of the New Year rituals and the depiction of these rituals in the Dresden Codex, it can be inferred that in 16th-century Yucatán, god K was called Bolon Dzacab ' Innumerable ( bolon ' nine, innumerable ') maternal generations ', perhaps a metaphor for fertility.

Jackson's depiction of the Uruks being spawned from the mud came from Tolkien's old description of orcs being " bred from the heats and slimes of the earth.

Access consciousness concerns those aspects of experience that are amenable to a functional description, while phenomenal consciousness concerns those aspects of experience that seem to defy functional depiction, instead being characterized qualitatively in terms of “ raw feels ”, “ what it is like ” or qualia ( Block, 1997 ).

The Drúedain are reminiscent of the mythological woodwoses, and like them their relic status and physical description are similar to the typical depiction of Neanderthals.

One traditional depiction of the chariot vision, based on the description in Ezekiel.

It is certain that it was used to represent the god Apollo, as attested by its depiction on a vase painting in the presence of suppliants, as does the description of the statue of the Pythian Apollo at Samos by Diodoros as " Egyptian works, with his arms hanging by his sides and his legs parted ".

It can be read simultaneously as an unusual, charming love story, a description of the political and social forces at work in 1920s Brazil, a somewhat satirical depiction of Latin American aspirations to " modernity ", and a celebration of the local culture and pleasures of Bahia.

The depiction of a horned Moses was the normal medieval Western depiction of Moses, based on the description of Moses ' face as "" (" horned ") in the Latin Vulgate translation of Exodus.

The design was taken from both the description in Du Maurier's book and the depiction from the film Rebecca, a 1940 adaptation of the novel by Alfred Hitchcock.

In the case of the Battle of Roncevaux, historians possess both the description of an event by contemporary and fairly reliable sources and the depiction of the same event resulting from centuries of an oral tradition, in which it was magnified to epic proportions and changed almost unrecognizably.

( See the Penguin Spare Rib Reader for a good description and depiction of its development.

In the 2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, the Plane of Law was renamed Mechanus ( instead of Nirvana ) and the depiction of Modrons introduced clockwork features ( expanding on the description of Nirvana as a plane of cogwheels in the 1st edition Manual of the Planes ).

Denotation is divided between description ; covering writing and extending to more discursive notation including music and dance scores, to depiction at greatest remove.

The depiction of multiple kings clashes with the description of the region given by Arab traveler Ibn Selim el-Aswani.

God of Etang-sur-Arroux, a possible depiction of Cernunnos.

Whilst the Horned God is the most common depiction of masculine divinity in Wicca, he is not the only representation.

In a symbolically important step, Sergius I declared support for the chant " Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us " at the breaking of the Host during Mass, and restored the damaged facade mosaic in St. Peter's atrium that depicted the Worship of the Lamb ; the depiction of Christ as lamb had been prohibited by the Council.

The roots of Judeo-Christian contemplation of the ways in which God chooses to remain hidden reach back into the biblical depiction of God, for example the lament of the Psalms, " My God, my God, why have you forsaken me ?.... I cry by day, but you do not answer ...." and Isaiah's declaration, " Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

Hawaiian Sweet Potato God, possibly a depiction of Lono.

A depiction of an adze was also used as a hieroglyph, representing the consonants stp, " chosen ", and used as: ... Pharaoh XX, chosen of God / Goddess YY ...

The story is a horrifying vision of a God that is all-devouring and amoral, and is a sharp depiction of religious despair that prefigured Dick's own later crisis of faith and mental breakdown.

Typically, though not entirely, Islamic art has focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy, rather than on figures, because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God, forbidden in the Qur ' an.

It is a depiction of the first Pentecostal Mission to spread the word of God to all the people of the world.

Certain tenets such as non-violence and search for God in all beings living and non-living led to depiction of several other forms.

Although the depiction of Jesus as the Lamb of God is of ancient origin, it is not used in the liturgical iconography of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The Islamic resistance to the representation of living beings ultimately stems from the belief that the creation of living forms is unique to God, and it is for this reason that the role of images and image makers has been controversial. he strongest statements on the subject of figural depiction are made in the Hadith ( Traditions of the Prophet ), where painters are challenged to " breathe life " into their creations and threatened with punishment on the Day of Judgment.

Art in the Middle Ages depicting the visit of the Queen of Sheba includes the Portal of the Mother of God at the 13th century Amiens Cathedral, which is included as an analogy as part of a larger depiction of the gifts of the Magi.

Mormon depiction of God the Father and the Son Jesus.

For about a thousand years, no attempt was made to portray God the Father in human form, because early Christians believed that the words of Exodus 33: 20 " Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see Me and live " and of the Gospel of John 1: 18: " No man hath seen God at any time " were meant to apply not only to the Father, but to all attempts at the depiction of the Father.

In the 14th century the illustrated Naples Bible had a depiction of God the Father in the Burning bush.

The depiction remains rare and often controversial in Eastern Orthodox art, and by the time of the Renaissance artistic representations of God the Father were freely used in the Western Church.

As one scholar puts it, “ This is well demonstrated by the decoration of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome ,... where the iconographic depiction of the Virgin Mary was chosen at least in part to celebrate the affirmation of Mary as Theotokos ( bearer of God ) by the third ecumenical Council of Ephesus in 431 CE .” The mosaics of the triumphal arch and the nave in Santa Maria Maggiore were the definition of impressionistic art during the time period and gave a model for the future representations of the Virgin Mary.