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- first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational theories ... his family was living at the time. His mother was Lady Anne Gray, daughter ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- gods. He was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth, with whom he conceived ... of two divine procreative entities—the earth and the sky. As Hesiod tells ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- In Māori mythology, the primal couple Rangi (Sky-Father) and Papa (Earth Mother), also called Ranginui and Papatuanuku, refer to the first primordial ...8 KB (1,301 words) - 00:36, 8 December 2022
- In Sumerian mythology, Ninhursag (NIN.URSAG) was the earth and mother goddess, one of the major deities of ancient Sumer. Also known as Nintu ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
- of the East and West. Her novel, The Good Earth, for which she was awarded ... taught English as a second language by her mother and tutor. She was encouraged ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 22:56, 30 March 2023
- as a result: The union of heaven and earth resulting in the continuity ... In ancient Sumerian cosmology, heaven (An) and earth (Ki) were originally ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- Leto; he threatened to kill every beast on Earth. Earth objected, and sent ... and buried it in the earth—thus explaining why Orion is Earthborn. ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- Philolaus was the first to declare that the Earth was not the stationary ... Philolaus was the first to propound the doctrine that the Earth was ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- on special occasions, such as Mother's Day, weddings, and proms. on Parents Day. (Korea does not separate Mother's Day and Father's ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 00:27, 29 November 2023
- gods. Enlil was the god of the sky and the earth, the father of the Moon god ... Enlil was in charge of the skies and the earth, while Enki/Ea governed the ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- governed the spiritual heaven, the sky and earth, and the waters, respectively. ... cosmogony as a dome that covered the flat earth. Outside of this dome was ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- realm, communicates to the people on earth, revealing various cosmic ... Methuselah's family, including his mother, named Edna, and his brothers ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- that Tengri governed all existence on earth, determining the fate of ... the universe: Tengri, Yer-Sub, Umai, Erlik, Earth, Water, Fire, Sun, Moon, ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 05:42, 27 February 2023
- Soon after, Eros (sexual union), Gaia (Earth), and Tartarus also sprang ... Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- a rebellion. Enlil, the god of the sky and earth, wanted to punish these gods ... Anu, Enlil, and Enki, the gods of heaven, earth/sky, and water, "when ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- Shekhinah represents God's presence on earth and mourns for the separation ... After her father died in 1930, she lived with her mother, and fled ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- Saint Anne (also Ann or Anna) was the mother of the Virgin Mary. Born ... :Oh me, what am I like? I am not like the wild animals of the earth, ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- Mother's Day is a day honoring mothers, celebrated on various ... of today's holiday, the contemporary Mother's Day in the United ...22 KB (3,311 words) - 17:00, 10 November 2022
- and the Roman Empire. She represented the Mother Earth and was worshiped as ... The goddess was known among the Greeks as Meter ("Mother" ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- from the obsolete Afrikaans name for "earth pig" (aarde earth, varken ... . Aardvarks dig burrows (holes in the earth) as homes. They prefer sandy ...9 KB (1,488 words) - 00:41, 17 December 2022
- an incarnation of Vishnu, an avatar come to earth to restore the spiritual ... is therefore an avatar, one who comes to earth to restore spiritual order ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- Rossetti was born in London and educated at home by her mother Frances ... illness. During this time she, her mother, and her sister became followers ...11 KB (1,551 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- a Creator Kinnikasus (Man Never Known on Earth), the "Spirit Over All" who represents the Infinite. In addition are the Sky gods and ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 18:44, 4 May 2023
- from their names: ocean and fruitful earth, sun and moon, memory and ... to stand at the western edge of Gaia, the Earth and hold up Ouranos, the ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- Yer-sub, goddess of the homeland, and Earth, whose marriage to Tengri ... sons of Tengri and His representatives on earth. A ruler reigned under Tengri’s ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 06:07, 27 February 2023
- Deity. He orders the heavens and the earth, and controls the Tablets ... According to this theory, the Great Mother goddess (for example, Tiamat ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- *Earth (Chinese:土, pinyin: tǔ). The system of five phases was used ... *Fire creates Earth (ash) *Earth bears Metal *Metal carries Water ...19 KB (2,730 words) - 14:06, 20 May 2023
- * The moment when the Sun is positioned directly over the Earth's ... can be observed to be directly above the Earth's equator, occurring ...25 KB (4,132 words) - 19:17, 13 February 2024
- the "anima/animus," the "mother," the "child," ... and intuitive, as a witch, or as the earth mother. It is likely to be associated ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 22:33, 7 January 2024
- In 1906, Goldman published Mother Earth with Berkman, a monthly journal ... being constructed to visit Berkman at the Mother Earth offices. Fifteen minutes ...22 KB (3,464 words) - 20:53, 31 December 2020
- that habitat this captivating stretch of earth have subsequently become ... call Chomolungma which in Tibetan means Mother Goddess of the Earth. He ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 03:46, 30 April 2023
- it from the danger of vanishing from the earth or of serving others as a ... In an era when the earth is gradually being divided up among states ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 18:49, 25 October 2022
- In Greek mythology, Demeter (Greek: "mother-earth" or possibly "distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European mother ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- in ancient Lower Egypt. Geb represented the earth and its fertility, and, over ... his place in the cosmos (as the fertile earth that sustained the lives ...20 KB (3,212 words) - 17:11, 23 October 2022
- Titans, the divine descendants of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky ... divine consort was said to be Rhea, the earth mother, is not surprising. While ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
- Isaac was born miraculously when his mother was 90. He is primarily famed ... and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- quot;An oath to my God") was the mother of John the Baptist and the ... of Rome affirmed that Mary's mother (Saint Anne) and Elizabeth ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 09:20, 30 December 2021
- University of Maine at Augusta, and her mother worked as a social worker ... are so afraid of him," she asked her mother, "why doesn't someone ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- and oppresses the other gods. Asherah, the mother goddess, attempts to reason ... :They cried unto their mother, Asherah, Lady of the Sea. ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- descended first into the lower parts of the earth," and Peter (1 Peter ... administered, might be saved through their mother's wish for their baptism; ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 04:09, 29 October 2022
- Sam Sagan, was a garment worker; his mother, Rachel Molly Gruber, was ... 16, 1974, aimed at informing extraterrestrials about Earth. ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- glass which was created at the factory his mother owned, and for a time, the ... master of the local gymnasium. Though his mother and sister succumbed to the ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- #039;s origins are obscure. Though his mother was the "offspring of ... had by then lost their home. Gibran's mother, Kamilah, decided to follow ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- roles, as the wife of Odin and as the mother of Balder. ... Call her Daughter of Fjörgynn, Wife of Odin, Mother of Balder, Co ...17 KB (2,558 words) - 07:03, 15 April 2024
- Maguire children and rushed to help. Their mother, Anne Maguire, who was with ... represents life needlessly wasted, a mother's labor spurned." ...12 KB (1,943 words) - 23:29, 11 January 2023
- The name "chameleon" means "earth lion" and is ... no other embryonic development within the mother), with some being ovoviviparous ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 02:06, 13 January 2023
- mysterious connection between Jesus' mother Mary and the Archangel Michael ... When Christ wished to come upon the earth to men, the good Father ...11 KB (1,737 words) - 14:45, 30 December 2022
- unable to accept the tragic death of his mother. His constant weeping and ... into a deep cavern in the center of the earth, the Rock Cave (Ama-no-Iwato ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:45, 24 July 2023
- When Lucia's mother, Maria Rosa, was 21 years old in 1890, she ... According to her mother, Lucia repeated everything that she heard ...15 KB (2,588 words) - 04:18, 4 November 2022
- African cultures. In Kinyarwanda, the mother tongue in Rwanda, and in ... Under unhu, children are never orphans, since the roles of mother ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- of the fragmented corpse of the great mother goddess. In this more corporeal ... chaos in Genesis 1.2: "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- (or Holy Pond) where the Buddha's mother took the ritual dip prior ... Queen Māyā of Sakya was the birth mother of the historical Gautama ...12 KB (1,788 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- world with God in a kingdom of heaven on earth. Solovyov influenced the ... and a well-known Russian historian. His mother, Polixena Vladimirovna, belonged ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- are many other mountains all over the earth that are on fire, and yet ... asexual reproduction on the part of his mother—specifically, that Hera ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 13:45, 9 February 2022
- representing the Madonna or Mary, mother of Jesus, by herself or, ... to images of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. The word has also ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- bears the graves of prophet Ishmael and his mother Hagar. ... According to Islamic tradition, God ordained a place of worship on ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 21:48, 4 October 2022
- Ashera, was a major northwest Semitic mother goddess, appearing also in ... primary roles as consort of the chief god, mother of the major lesser deities ...14 KB (2,179 words) - 04:03, 18 August 2023
- aside a special duty for women, the "Clan Mother." ... first to have been given to the people by mother earth, and songs were sung ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
- the return of plants and of life to the earth. Persephone had gone into ... able to reunite with her daughter and the earth was returned to its former ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- to a farmer, John Wilson, and his mother Annie Clerk Harper. After ... charged, and that, as a result, the earth's surface was negatively ...8 KB (1,235 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- to Killaloe in 1862. FitzGerald's mother was the sister of George ... which failed to detect the motion of the earth relative to the ether that ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 15:45, 6 November 2022
- and that she was no longer interested in being my mother." ... * Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003) * A Poem Traveled ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 18:21, 21 July 2023
- to James the Just. For his sake heaven and earth came into being." ... Luke), Jesus is the Messiah who has come to earth to die for our sins that ...20 KB (3,346 words) - 20:09, 11 September 2021
- of the first human-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik ... the presence of Van Allen belts around the Earth, images of the far side of ...20 KB (2,963 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- His mother died when he was five. At the age of 14 he was sent to ... *Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth (1883) *A Faith on Trial (1885) ...8 KB (1,223 words) - 15:24, 11 November 2022
- and Matthew 27:56, we can surmise that his mother's name was Salome. John ... 26:37). His position was such that his mother felt that it as appropriate ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 17:09, 4 May 2024
- most powerful of their deities – Earth Mother, Sun Father, and Moonlight ... Awitelin Tsita are the Sun Father and Earth Mother and the parents of all ...22 KB (3,332 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- go to war, destroy fields, and make the earth's creatures infertile ... sometimes portrayed Madonna-like as the mother of the god Marduk. In later ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- of compassion and kindness, a mother-goddess and patron of mothers ... when she heard a cry of suffering back on earth. She asked to be sent back ...10 KB (1,730 words) - 22:16, 2 December 2021
- The common translation is "Lord of the Earth." of Anu (deep heaven), Enlil (sky and earth), and himself (waters). ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- Earth is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance ... Since its formation, the Earth has been transformed through various ...38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- interesting material for a study of the earth's history. ... dances, birds, musical instruments, mother and child pregnant women ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 03:37, 1 October 2023
- for its central archetype (e.g. "mother complex"). Jung often ... and intuitive, as a witch, or as the earth mother. It is likely to be associated ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- Ereshkigal (lit. "Great Lady under the Earth") was the goddess ... When Anu's tears—shed for for his separated sister-lover Ki ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- of circumcision. Later, Ishmael and his mother were banished to the wilderness ... her slave, Hagar, to act as a surrogate mother and second wife. However ...15 KB (2,619 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- to make creatures that would populate the earth. Prometheus carefully crafted ... and the wind's inconstancy, and the mother bird's heart of love ...12 KB (1,993 words) - 23:54, 1 December 2022
- Lovecraft thereafter was raised by his mother, his two aunts, and ... almost no contact with anybody but his mother. This changed when he wrote ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- of Lord Vishnu's feet; hence Mother Ganges is also known as Vishnupadi ... Sagara sent all his sons all over the earth to search for the horse. ...23 KB (3,460 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- of Sasso-Rosso, and his wife Ortolana. Her mother was a very devout woman who ... would she accept the position of "Mother" of the group, at 21 ...19 KB (3,232 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- of a serpent, entering into a hole in the Earth and slithering all the way ... to do in order to release himself and his mother from their bondage, they ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- a vast deep space in the interior of the earth, and a concealed recess in ... system, rude, a locality beneath the earth, in which the light of the ...23 KB (3,693 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
- was the son of a Seneca (Indian) mother and a Dutch-American father ... (now the New York town of Caledonia). His mother was of the Seneca's ...15 KB (2,354 words) - 19:04, 14 January 2023
- His mother was the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang who was an excellent ... The emperor married his mother's niece, but demoted the empress ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 20:04, 21 April 2023
- in an institution in Scotland during his mother's terminal illness. ... published a second collection of poems, The Earth Compels, the Oxford University ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- in the hills of John the Baptist and his mother (Elizabeth) from Herod Antipas. ... you shall go, for whose sake heaven and earth have come to exist." ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 12:08, 24 January 2023
- Isabella Niven Wilder, his mother and a cultured, educated woman, ... School at Yantai but returned with his mother and siblings to California ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 23:01, 30 April 2023
- marriages. However, like her mother and father, Betsy eloped ... In 1793 Ross’s mother, father, and sister died within days of each ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- her as a mighty river that flowed down to earth from heaven. In ancient times ... demon Vritra, who had hoarded all of the earth's water and undoubtedly ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
- sympathies when Lev was just 9. During his mother's persecution in the ... *Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere of Earth (1978) *Ancient Rus and the ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- In particular, Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth ... the descendent of African slaves, and his mother was said to be an illegitimate ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 15:25, 6 October 2022
- religion appears to have been that of the Mother Goddess, whom Ashoka worshipped ... proceeded to wreak havoc over the earth and the heavens, and so the ...21 KB (3,235 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- the true God. In this view, Jesus came to earth as a messenger to enlighten ... Judas asks to be told "what was before the heaven and the earth ...17 KB (2,741 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- Neptune was a son of Ops, the earth mother, and Saturn, the prevailing sky god who ruled over the rest of the Roman pantheon. Fearing that his ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- and England. A previous pope was his mother's uncle, and several ... tiara' that represented authority on earth, in heaven and over purgatory ...14 KB (2,378 words) - 07:22, 17 November 2023
- Thérèse became ill after her birth, as did her mother, and her parents ... Thérèse's mother died of breast cancer in 1877, when Thérèse ...22 KB (3,790 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- birth in which his appearance causes his mother to flee in terror serves ... his goat-like appearance, Pan's mother ran away in fright. He has ...15 KB (2,404 words) - 06:26, 18 November 2022
- [[Image:Baby smudging.jpg|250px|left|thumb|A mother performs a smudging ... one of the four or five elements (earth, fire, water, air, and sometimes ...12 KB (1,808 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- Plato and Aristotle, who thought that the Earth was fundamentally different ... planetary system, although Ptolemy's Earth-centered model was still ...31 KB (4,812 words) - 07:18, 5 April 2024
- story of his father's passion and his mother's sacrificial love. ... bridge the distance between the sky and the earth, and it—or another like ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 08:45, 9 October 2022
- to rule over each of the nations of the earth, and became national gods ... who have no direct relevance to humanity on Earth. Some Latter Day Saints also ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
