The following five-note motif introduced by strings in unison recalls the second movement of his Fifth Symphony.

The triumphant primary melody of the passacaglia comes from Pilgrim's dialogue with Interpreter in the second half of " The House Beautiful " scene, while the fanfare motif recalls of " The Arming of the Pilgrim " in Act II Scene 1.

Some scholars have seen in the story of the Garden of Eden an instance of this general motif.

This gumption in musical experimentation was the essence of Puccini's style, as evidenced in his diverse settings and use of the motif to express ideas beyond those in the story and text.

This is a typical example of Anderson's frequent motif of a tragic conflict — a story with no villains at all, with all protagonists having the best of good intentions and still forced into bitter conflict.

* " Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter " ( 1839 ), a disturbing story of a man returning from the grave to claim his bride in the old folkloric motif of the demon lover.

This is the first story that focuses on a central motif of The Martian Chronicles: the colonization of the Western frontier in the United States.

Leitwortstil is ' the purposeful repetition of words ' in a given literary piece that " usually expresses a motif or theme important to the given story ".

The story, perhaps apocryphal, is that " Hamp ", a drummer at the time, was playing at the NBC Radio studios, where he discovered a vibraharp that was kept on hand to play the musical motif identifying the NBC network, the " NBC Chimes ".

The concept of a Game of Destiny is a significant motif in the story.

The story of Gelert is a variation on the well-worn " Faithful Hound " folk-tale motif, which lives on as an urban legend.

Fargnoli and Gillespie suggest that the book's opening chapter " introduces major themes and concerns of the book ", and enumerate these as " Finnegan's fall, the promise of his resurrection, the cyclical structure of time and history ( dissolution and renewal ), tragic love as embodied in the story of Tristan and Iseult, the motif of the warring brothers, the personification of the landscape and the question of Earwicker's crime in the park, the precise nature of which is left uncertain throughout the Wake.

This story is related to the " beheading game " motif appearing in many later works, most famously the 14th-century English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

This story first appears in Chrétien de Troyes ' Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, and reappears as a common motif in numerous cyclical Arthurian literature, starting with the Lancelot-Grail Cycle of the early 13th century and carrying through the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur.

In this story, which introduces the Grail motif in medieval literature, Perceval is the sole seeker of the grail.

Each heroic player character ( aside from Gamma ) also has an instrumental motif that later translates into a vocal theme song that plays during the end credits of their story.

The story concerns the efforts of one artist, Ashlyme, to rescue another-the frail, consumptive, dying Audsley King-from the plague zone ( the latter is a motif that recurs in Harrison's novel Nova Swing.

Baughman's classification system grades this basic story as motif E332. 3. 3. 1.

This is especially true in the case of metafiction and the " story within a story " motif.

In its version of the story, there are no traces of the rather extensive Johannine redaction ( proper names, motif of the delay of Jesus ' travel, measurement of space and time, discourses of Jesus with his disciples and with Martha and Mary ).

Some of the episodes have a less prominent motif, while others explored topics outside any of the main story arcs.

Leitwortstil is the purposeful saying of words throughout a literary piece that usually expresses a motif or theme important to the story. This often uses colors and numbers.

But still the " zipless fuck ," a major motif in the story, haunts the novel's narrator as she travels.

The legendary motif of the great archer forced to shoot an apple from his son's head appears among other Germanic nations, as the story of Egil in the Þiðrekssaga, William of Cloudesley in an English ballad, Hemming Wolf in Holstein, Puncher in an Upper Rhenish legend in Malleus Maleficarum, and most famously William Tell in Switzerland.

* Moses 7: This chapter continues the story of Enoch's preaching, including a vision of the " Son of Man "— a favorite motif in pseudepigraphal book of 1 Enoch.

Mucalinda, the nāga king who shielded Gautama Buddha | Buddha as he sat in meditation, was a favorite motif for Cambodian Buddhist sculptors from the 11th century.

A favorite motif of Angkorean sculptors from approximately the 12th century A. D. onward was that of the Buddha, sitting in the position of meditation, his weight supported by the coils of a multi-headed naga that also uses its flared hood to shield him from above.

This kind of structure reflects a motif associated with the doctrine of the Huayan school, which affirms that the Buddha delivered the abstruse Avatamsaka Sutra ( 華嚴經 ‘ Huayan Scripture ’) as his first sermon, in an effort to directly awaken those whose " roots of virtue " were well-matured.

A well known Neo-Confucian motif is paintings of Confucius, Buddha, and Lao Tzu all drinking out of the same vinegar jar, paintings associated with the slogan " The three teachings are one!

The pillar supports of the main body are carved with a cloud motif while the main body is cylindrical and has four bas-reliefs of Buddha and bodhisattvas and are accompanied by flower motifs.

Later caves seem to have fewer legends and / or jatakas, being replaced by the repetitive designs of numerous small Buddhas ( the so-called thousand Buddha motif ), or sitting Buddhas with nimbuses.

* Hachidai ryūō 八大龍王 " 8 great naga kings " assembled to hear the Buddha expound on the Lotus Sutra, and are a common artistic motif.

The Chaoskampf motif entered Greek mythology and ultimately Christian mythology, although the serpent motif may already be part of prehistoric Indo-European mythology as well, based on comparative evidence of Indic and Germanic material.

In Revelation, where the Archangel Michael expels the dragon ( Satan ) from heaven (" And war broke out in heaven, with Michael and his angels attacking the dragon ..."-Revelation 12: 7 ), the motif can be traced back to Leviathan in Israel and to Tiamat, the chaos-ocean, in Babylonian myth, identified with Satan via an interpretation of the serpent in Eden.

The motif of chaoskampf ( German for " struggle against chaos ") is ubiquitous in such myths, depicting a battle of a culture hero deity with a chaos monster, often in the shape of a serpent or dragon.

Other variations of the okir involves the use of nāga or serpent motif.

In Ancient Egyptian religious art, Kneph refers to a motif, variously a winged egg, a globe surrounded by one or more serpents, or Amun in the form of a serpent called Kematef.

On this stone the runic text lies within a serpent that circles a triquetra, which would have been considered a high status motif.

The motif is same, concerning also a king falling in love with her.

A king in the mountain, king under the mountain or sleeping hero is a prominent motif in folklore and mythology that is found in many folktales and legends.

It also might have an influence on the motif of the " king in the mountain ".

The motif of the fallen star must have been familiar in Israel, for Isaiah referred to it in admonishing the king of Babylon for his pride (" How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

During this time his soldiers painted a sea motif for the king on the walls of the bathroom, and the motif is still present in the house.

For these, Apollodotus I clearly used Bactrian celators to strike an exquisite realistic portrait of the king as an aged man in the Macedonian hat called kausia, with a reverse of sitting Pallas Athene holding Nike, a common Hellenistic motif introduced by the Diadoch Lysimachus.

See Snær for another use of the dog king motif.

Klaus ' snake motif was based on the cobra, but later based his motif on the king cobra.

Having in mind the historical evidence of Richard II's personal regal iconography of the anointed king and the documented Biblical allusions, it seems that the motif of youthful Joseph honoured in his dream by the sun, representing the Christ, the moon, representing the Virgin and eleven stars representing his brothers offers a significant parallel to the vision of the heavenly court with Jesus Christ, the Virgin and eleven angelic courtiers appearing in front of the eyes of King Richard II.

" Because the only possible response to a double check is a king move, the double check is often an important tactical motif.

The similar parable in, the Parable of the Minas, is generally similar, but differences include the inclusion of the motif of a king obtaining a kingdom, and the entrusting of the servants with equal amounts, measured in minas rather than talents ( 1 talent = 60 mina ).