Even the great god Faulkner, the South's one probable contender for literary immortality, has little concerned himself with these matters ; ;

A number of non-Greek etymologies have been suggested for the name, The form Apaliunas (< sup > d </ sup >) is attested as a god of Wilusa in a treaty between Alaksandu of Wilusa and the Hittite great king Muwatalli II ca 1280 BCE.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

Admetus treated Apollo well, and, in return, the god conferred great benefits on Admetus.

In a great majority of instances the name Abrasax is associated with a singular composite figure, having a Chimera-like appearance somewhat resembling a basilisk or the Greek primordial god Chronos ( not to be confused with the Greek titan Cronus ).

As such it draws to a conclusion the themes introduced in Genesis and played out in Exodus and Leviticus: God has promised the Israelites that they shall become a great ( i. e. numerous ) nation, that they will have a special relationship with Yahweh their god, and that they shall take possession of the land of Canaan.

* Apostasy: the great tragedy of Israel's history, meaning the destruction of the kingdom and the Temple, is due to the failure of the people, but more especially the kings, to worship Yahweh alone ( Yahweh being the god of Israel ).

In the Prose Edda, additional information is given about Fenrir, including that, due to the gods ' knowledge of prophecies foretelling great trouble from Fenrir and his rapid growth, the gods bound him, and as a result Fenrir bit off the right hand of the god Týr.

Plutarch and others have noted that the sacrifices to Osiris were " gloomy, solemn, and mournful ..." ( Isis and Osiris, 69 ) and that the great mystery festival, celebrated in two phases, began at Abydos on the 17th of Athyr ( November 13 ) commemorating the death of the god, which was also the same day that grain was planted in the ground.

Because of the great diversity of forms found in this group, the Proteobacteria are named after Proteus, a Greek god of the sea, capable of assuming many different shapes, and it is therefore not named after the genus Proteus.

The Greek form of the name Babylon is from the native Akkadian Bāb-ilim, which means " Gate of the god ", which summarizes the religious purpose of the great temple towers ( the ziggurats ) of ancient Sumer ( Biblical Shinar ).

At a point in dialogue between the skaldic god Bragi and Ægir, Snorri himself begins speaking of the myths in euhemeristic terms and states that the historical equivalent of Víðarr was the Trojan hero Aeneas who survived the Trojan War and went on to achieve " great deeds ".

Daniel Howard-Snyder writes about the possibility of believing in an unsurpassably great personal god that is nevertheless dispassionate towards its creatures.

Leto, the Hyperborean goddess, after nine days and nine nights of labour on the island of Delos ( Pelasgian for hill, related to tell ) " gave birth to the great god of the antique light " ( Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, I.

The goddesses find and restore Osiris ' body, often with the help of other deities, including Thoth, a deity credited with great magical and healing powers, and Anubis, the god of embalming and funerary rites.

Diodorus also explained how, initially, the Pythia was an appropriately clad young virgin, for great emphasis was placed on the Oracle's chastity and purity to be reserved for union with the god Apollo.

Merodach, the great god, excited my mind to repair this building.

In one Native North American story, an evil serpent kills one of the gods ' cousins, so the god kills the serpent in revenge, but the dying serpent unleashes a great flood.

Typically, that order would be noun – adjective – numeral – genitive phrase – relative clause – possessive marker – plural marker – case marker, for example / diĝir gal-gal-ĝu-ne-ra / (" god great ( reduplicated )- my-plural-dative " = " for all my great gods ").

" A common interpretation of the representation of " Trismegistus " as " thrice great " recalls the three characterizations of Idris: as a messenger of god, or a prophet ; as a source of wisdom, or hikmet ( wisdom from hokmah ); and as a king of the world order, or a " sultanate.

:: and the immortally anointed hair of the great god

" We may justifiably ask ," observes Kerenyi, " Why was this great mythical hunter, who in Greece became a mysterious god of the underworld, a capturer of wild animals and not a killer?

To possess her himself, the god revealed the springs of Lerna, a cult site of great antiquity near the shores of the Argolid.

" The ninth century Sanas Cormaic ( or " Cormac's Glossary ") says the "... Druids used to make fires with great incantations ," and were lit to safeguard against diseases.

To have held each office at the youngest possible age ( suo anno, " in his year ") was considered a great political success, since to miss out on a praetorship at 39 meant that one could not become consul at 42.

In the Pali literature, the mahabhuta (" great elements ") or catudhatu (" four elements ") are earth, water, fire and air.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

During World War II and through the 1950s, high frequency (" short wave ") radio was widely used for military and diplomatic communication, and could be intercepted at great distances.

The archaic term Velja noć ( velmi: Old Slavic for " great "; noć: " night ") was used in Croatian while the term Velikden (" Great Day ") was used in Serbian.

The Saint Thomas Christians (" Nasrani ") of southwestern India may have connections with the Essenes, according to the Manimekalai, one of the great Tamil epic poems, which refers to a people called " Issani ".

The phrase si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam / cenam (" if you bring with you a good and great / dinner ") is sharply enjambed between the third and fourth lines.

He was King of Sweden ( 1611 – 1632 ) and founder of the Swedish Empire ( or Stormaktstiden " the era of great power ") at the beginning of the Golden Age of Sweden.

The expedition, consisting of eleven ships and 1, 357 men under the orders of Admiral Corneille came into the bay, which they named “ Rade des Tortues ” ( literally meaning " Harbor of the Tortoises ") because of the great number of terrestrial tortoises they found there.

The Morrígan (" phantom queen ") or Mórrígan (" great queen "), also written as Morrígu or in the plural as Morrígna, and spelt Morríghan or Mór-ríoghain in Modern Irish, is a figure from Irish mythology who appears to have been considered a goddess, although she is not explicitly referred to as such in the texts.

A phobia ( from the, Phóbos, meaning " fear " or " morbid fear ") is, when used in the context of clinical psychology, a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational.

In The Divine Comedy Dante sees John XXI ( referred to as " Pietro Spano ") in the Heaven of the Sun with the other spirits of great religious scholars.

Peine forte et dure ( Law French for " hard and forceful punishment ") was a method of torture formerly used in the common law legal system, in which a defendant who refused to plead (" stood mute ") would be subjected to having heavier and heavier stones placed upon his or her chest until a plea was entered, or as the weight of the stones on the chest became too great for the condemned to breathe, fatal suffocation would occur.

From among the writings of others in the same period, there is the inscription and engraving of Darius the great, installed at junction of waters of Red Sea ( also called " Arabian Gulf " or " Ahmar Sea ") and the Nile river and the Rome river ( current Mediterranean ) which belongs to the 5th century BC where, Darius the Great, the king of the Achaemenid Empire has named the Persian Gulf Water Channel: Pars Sea ( Persian Sea ).

It is considered a great mitzvah ( literally " commandment " but usually interpreted as " good deed ") of kindness and compassion to pay a home visit ( make or pay a shiva call ) to the mourners, a practice known as Nichum Aveilim.

: good, right, ripe – ( most suitable or right for a particular purpose ; " a good time to plant tomatoes "; " the right time to act "; " the time is ripe for great sociological changes ")

Specifically, the Avodah (" service ") in the Musaf prayer recounts in great detail the sacrificial ceremonies of the Yom Kippur Korbanot ( sacrificial offerings ) that are recited in the prayers but have not been performed for 2, 000 years, since the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.

* Yasodharman, Maharaja (" great king ") of Malwa, defeats the Hun invaders under Mihirakula in central India.

" The phrase " and the Son " ( in Latin, " Filioque ") was one of the elements that led to the great schism of 1054 that split Chalcedonian Christianity and has not yet been healed.

Magnavox ( Latin for " great voice ") is a US electronics company founded by Edwin Pridham and Peter L. Jensen, who invented the moving-coil loudspeaker in 1915 at their lab in Napa, California.