This theme echoes the ancient Roman belief that the Goddess Isis was known by ten thousand names and also that the Goddess still worshipped today by Wiccans and other neopagans is known under many guises but is one universal divinity.

Although mythical elements are not so prominent in Exodus as in Genesis, the echoes of ancient legends are crucial to understanding the book's origins and purpose: for example, the story of the infant Moses's salvation from the Nile has its basis in an earlier legend of king Sargon, while the story of the parting of the Red Sea trades on Mesopotamian creation mythology.

Mervyn Peake never returned to China but it has been noted that Chinese influences can be detected in Peake's works, not least in the castle of Gormenghast itself, which in some respects echoes the ancient walled city of Peking ( Beijing ) as well as the enclosed compound where he grew up in Tientsin ( Tianjin ).

The ancient Greek poet Hesiod has in his account of the birth of the gods and creation of the world ( i. e., in his Theogony ) that Chaos begot the primordial deities: Eros, Gaia ( Earth ) and Tartarus, who begot Erebus ( Darkness ) and Nyx ( Night ), and Plato echoes this genealogy in the Timaeus 40e, 41e where the familiar Titan and Olympian gods are sired by Heaven and Earth.

The signature echoes one used by the ancient Greek artists, Apelles and Polykleitos.

There are echoes of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and other historical and biographical writers from the ancient world.

This echoes an ancient mythological concept that the afterlife is reached by crossing over a body of water.

Their ancient oracle traditions, handed down for centuries, contained some startling echoes of the Old Testament that some scholars conjecture a linkage with Jewish communities ( or possibly even Nestorians ), before their migrations from western China into Burma perhaps as early as the 12th century.

Because of its rich and varied interlocking structure, the novel echoes favorable comparison to many celebrated literary antecedents such as the ancient BCE Jatakas and Panchatantra as well as the medieval Arabian Nights and Decameron.

In Thor: The Mighty Avenger # 6, Heimdall takes the form of Fin Fang Foom calling it " one which is common throughout the cosmos ... echoes of a single, ancient dragon, now tamed and humbled.

The band's music echoes the ancient folk music tradition of Scandinavia with medieval ballads, minuets, prayers in runo-metric chanting and ancient Icelandic rímur epics in a modern way.

Above all, according to Al-Joulan, Jackson ’ s symbolic black box shares a great deal of the distinctions of the Kaaba and the Black Stone, and the brutal ancient rite she describes echoes the two aspects of Stoning in Islamic Hajj and Islam ’ s penal law regarding adultery.

Dionysios ' name echoes the Olympic wine-god Dionysos, who according to Greek mythology was also an ancient king of India.

As a pointed counterpoint to the verse echoes of ancient Vedantic philosophy (" wall of illusion " " When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there ") a sawal-jawab ( musical dialogue ) begins in 5 / 4 time between first the dilruba and Harrison's sitar, then between the full Western string section and Harrison's sitar, this tellingly resolving into a melody in unison and together stating the tihai that closes the middle segment.

Jerome's attribution of the Second and Third Epistle of John echoes the text of these books, in which the writer refers to himself ho presbyteros, which can be translated as " the presbyter, " the elder ", " the ancient ", " the old ", the same word used by Papias.

Gaut was one of Odin's names and the name forms are thought to be echoes of an ancient ancestry tradition among Germanic tribes, such as that of Yngvi, Freyr and the Ingaevones.

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization is a book first published in 1995 by Graham Hancock, in which he echoes 19th century writer Ignatius Donnelly, author of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World ( 1882 ), in contending that some previously enigmatic ancient but highly advanced civilization had existed in prehistory, one which served as the common progenitor civilization to all subsequent known ancient historical ones.

The concept of Catch-22 is also represented in the character of Colonel Cathcart, as he consists entirely of irreconcilable oppositions and maintains an illogical thought process that echoes that of the catch.

Alternatively, some research systems have used only a pair of antenna elements and the phase-difference of arrival to calculate the direction of arrival of the echoes ( known as phase interferometry and similar in concept to Very Long Baseline Interferometry used in astronomy ).

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

It is an over-all impression Mr. Sansom strives for, an impression compounded of visual details, of a savory mixture of smells, of much loving attention to architecture and scenery, of lights and shadows, of intangibles of atmosphere and of echoes of the past.

( God's speech foreshadows major themes of the book: the crossing of the Jordan and conquest of the land, its distribution, and the imperative need for obedience to the Law ; Joshua's own immediate obedience is seen in his speeches to the Israelite commanders and to the Transjordanian tribes, and the Transjordanians ' affirmation of Joshua's leadership echoes Yahweh's assurances of victory ).

His lyric skills however are not just confined to individual poems: " A play of Euripides is a musical whole ... one song echoes motifs from the preceding song, while introducing new ones.

The Council of Trent's catechism — the Roman Catechism, written during the Catholic Church's Counter-Reformation to combat Protestantism and Martin Luther's fideism — echoes St. Thomas: There is a great difference between Christian philosophy and human wisdom.

Hamlet's " What a piece of work is a man " echoes many of Montaigne's ideas, but scholars disagree whether Shakespeare drew directly from Montaigne or whether both men were simply reacting similarly to the spirit of the times.

The debt may have been repaid by Sophocles because there appear to be echoes of The Histories in his plays, especially a passage in Antigone that resembles Herodotus's account of the death of Intaphernes ( Histories 3. 119 ~ Antigone 904-20 )-this however is one of the most contentious issues in modern scholarship.

Fantasy author Philip Pullman echoes this idea in the fantasy series His Dark Materials, in which the characters finally come to the conclusion that people should make life better on Earth rather than wait for heaven ( this idea is known as the Republic of Heaven ).

Ináng Bayan is frequently depicted in a baro't saya that echoes the design of the national flag.

This criticism did not match the typical idealized, romantic view of Richard the Lion-Hearted that was popular when Scott wrote the book, and yet it accurately echoes the way King Richard is often judged by historians today.

In this philosophy, true creation is the exclusive province of God, and those who aspire to creation can only make echoes ( good ) or mockeries ( evil ) of truth.

One of the most important echoes of Plautus is the stock character of the parasite.

The film's plot, setting, and style echoes that of the Hammer Horror films, which had their own instantly recognizable style ( just as Universal Studios ' horror films did ), and is reminiscent of the Hammer production of The Revenge of Frankenstein starring Peter Cushing.

Constant False Alarm Rate, a form of Automatic Gain Control ( AGC ), is a method that relies on clutter returns far outnumbering echoes from targets of interest.

Jamming is problematic to radar since the jamming signal only needs to travel one way ( from the jammer to the radar receiver ) whereas the radar echoes travel two ways ( radar-target-radar ) and are therefore significantly reduced in power by the time they return to the radar receiver.

This Book's emphasis on the ephemeralness of life (" Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ...") echoes the theme of the sukkah, while its emphasis on death reflects the time of year in which Sukkot occurs ( the " autumn " of life ).

Some of the more successful approaches are principal components analysis and independent components analysis, which work well when there are no delays or echoes present ; that is, the problem is simplified a great deal.

Two types of technology share the name " sonar ": passive sonar is essentially listening for the sound made by vessels ; active sonar is emitting pulses of sounds and listening for echoes.

Speech is distorted by a background noise and echoes, electrical characteristics.

Wittgenstein's conclusion in Proposition 7 echoes the Old Testament words of Jesus ben Sirach ( ישוע בן סירא, Yešwaʿ ven Siraʾ ): What is too sublime for you, do not seek ; do not reach into things that are hidden from you.

Nowhere is the doom laden image of the Second Empire so clearly seen as in Nana, which culminates in echoes of the Franco-Prussian War ( and hence by implication of the French defeat ).

The plague that carries people off unexpectedly echoes the reality of the occupation, in which people could be snatched from their homes by the Gestapo and imprisoned or sent to work as slave labor in German-controlled territories or simply killed.

Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the mid-autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full-moon harvest festival of " tabernacles " ( huts wherein the harvest was processed and which later gained religious significance ).

There are five main categories in which potential sources and / or analogues are included: Scandinavian parallels, classical sources, Irish sources and analogues, ecclesiastical sources, and echoes in other Old English texts.

The second period was characterized by the Spanish attempts to reimpose arbitrary rule during the period known as the Reconquista of 1814 – 1817 (" Reconquest ": the term echoes the Reconquista in which the Christian kingdoms retook Iberia from the Muslims ).

During this trip, he further conceived the character of Conan and also wrote the poem " Cimmeria ", much of which echoes specific passages in Plutarch's Lives.

Instead he believes his work, especially his earlier more autobiographical poems, are rooted in a changing country which echoes the Welshness of the past and the Anglicisation of the new industrial nation: " rural and urban, chapel-going and profane, Welsh and English, Unforgiving and deeply compassionate.

Eventually, Judith appears in the crowd and calls for the release of Brian, which the crowd echoes, since the name contains the letter " r ".

This echoes pre-Christian Hindu celebrations in which flowers are strewn on festive occasions ; however, this also echoes the honour shown to Jesus upon his entry into Jerusalem.

Clutter refers to radio frequency ( RF ) echoes returned from targets which are uninteresting to the radar operators.

These problems can be overcome by incorporating a ground map of the radar's surroundings and eliminating all echoes which appear to originate below ground or above a certain height.

These problems can be overcome by incorporating a ground map of the radar's surroundings and eliminating all echoes which appear to originate below ground or above a certain height.

Easton's Defense of St Birgitta echoes Alfonso of Jaen's Epistola Solitarii, and William Flete's Remedies against Temptations, all of which are referred to in Julian's text.

Contemporary amphitheatres often include standing structures, called bandshells, sometimes curved or bowl-shaped, both behind the stage and behind the audience, creating an area which echoes or amplifies sound, making the amphitheatre ideal for musical or theatrical performances.

" This observation, which echoes the arguments about culture that originally led Boas to develop the principle, suggests that the use of cultural relativism in debates of rights and morals is not substantive but procedural.

The name for the region among the Rohirrim is recorded as Sunlending, which echoes the derivation of the Sindarin original from Anor " Sun ", in parallel to Ithil " Moon " in Ithilien .</ div >

The fake-French pronunciation of his name, established in the film's very first scene, echoes the running joke in It's a Gift, in which Fields and his wife were constantly telling people to pronounce the family name, Bisonette, as " bi-son-AY ".