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- Lord who appears to him upon a magnificent chariot composed of four winged ... of Ezekiel's visions of the heavenly chariot. Known as Merkabah mysticism ...21 KB (3,455 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- a vision of four heavenly chariots: "The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses. The third white horses, and the forth chariot dappled ...16 KB (2,596 words) - 13:06, 13 February 2024
- quot; Elisha then beheld Elijah in a fiery chariot, taken up by a whirlwind ... of Elijah: "My father, my father! the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen ...20 KB (3,192 words) - 21:43, 7 January 2019
- *1888 Cherub with Chariot† *1889 Necessaire† *1890 Danish Palaces *1891 Memory of Azov *1892 Diamond Trellis *1893 Caucasus *1894 Renaissance ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- stables where the horses that pulled Zeus's chariot were kept. Pegasus became the most prominent of all the horses, given the task of collecting ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 07:12, 23 November 2022
- riding in a magnificent winged wheelchair-like chariot." ... with the Stymphalian Birds), Helios's chariot, the shoulder of Pelops ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 13:45, 9 February 2022
- [[Image:Elijah-chariot.jpg|thumb|250px|Malachi predicted that Elijah, who ascended to heaven in a chariot of fire, would return to earth before ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- in an ode celebrating Scopas' victory in a chariot-race. Scopas refused to pay all the fee and told Simonides to apply to the Dioscuri for the ...7 KB (1,177 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
- *Caskey, Marie. Chariot of fire religion and the Beecher family. Yale historical publications : Miscellany, 117. New Haven: Yale University Press ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- shot King Josiah... So they took him out of his chariot, put him in the other chariot he had and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died (2 Chron ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- B.C.E.), it was apparently customary for an empty chariot drawn by white horses to accompany the Persian army. According to Herodotus, who first described ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 16:30, 30 December 2021
- According to Norse mythology, the god of thunder, Thor, has a chariot that is pulled by several goats. At night when he sets up camp, Thor will ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- ==Operation Plowshare and Project Chariot== [[Image:Project Chariot ... in 1958, and it was designated Project Chariot. While the AEC was scouting ...41 KB (6,221 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- Boudica exhorted her troops from her chariot, her daughters beside ... A great bronze statue of Boudica in her war chariot (furnished with ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 19:55, 20 November 2023
- with the flag of Hanuman on his chariot. This incident was precipitated by an earlier encounter between Hanuman and Arjuna wherein Hanuman appeared ...19 KB (3,063 words) - 19:40, 29 January 2022
- that he brandished in battle. Further, Ares had a chariot drawn by four gold-bridled fire-breathing immortal stallions (Iliad v.352). His sacred birds ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- sport of horse-racing. These horses drew the chariot in which he was said to travel over the sea. Like many of the figures of Roman mythology, Neptune ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- gave advice to the ruler but also was his chariot driver and practiced spells ... (royal consecration) vajapeya (including a chariot race) and, for supreme dominance ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:Chariot spread.png|thumb|200px|Early 2nd millennium introduction ... Sintashta, Kuzmina (1994) argues that the chariot corroborates the identification ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- Varuna also gave Arjuna a divine chariot, with powerful white horses ... into the Kurukshetra battlefield on his chariot steered by Krishna, Arjuna ...20 KB (3,256 words) - 22:46, 9 March 2022
- The Chariot of Poseidon, Bardo Museum.[http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/Z2 ... a haloed Poseidon appears in his chariot drawn by hippocamps. Significantly ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 23:21, 3 August 2023
- front mandapam takes the form of a huge chariot drawn by horses. The temple ... front mandapam takes the form of a huge chariot drawn by horses. ...28 KB (4,178 words) - 16:37, 13 July 2017
- ascertain. A treatise on the training of chariot horses contains a number ... the attribution of the introduction of the chariot in Mesopotamia to early Mitanni. ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
- deeds, he ascended into the heavens in a chariot, which in various depictions is drawn by horses being controlled by Helios-Sol, the sun god ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- meditation are the two wheels of the chariot of the noble eightfold path and the Buddha strongly recommended developing them both. ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 02:04, 23 December 2022
- flew too high (in hope of seeing Apollo in his sun chariot) and the wax that held the feathers in the wings melted in the heat of the sun. ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 18:53, 9 November 2022
- maintained that the sun was not a golden chariot steered across the sky by ... Medea then appears above the stage in the chariot of the sun god Helios. She ...22 KB (3,638 words) - 04:28, 23 March 2024
- forth, she drives her cats and sits in a chariot; she is most conformable ... and of a cat-drawn chariot. Turville-Petre, 176. Finally, she is often ...27 KB (4,334 words) - 12:25, 13 October 2022
- began using leather, affixed by copper studs, on chariot wheels. Skins typically arrived at the tannery dried stiff and dirty with soil and gore ...11 KB (1,861 words) - 04:26, 27 February 2023
- :Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; :And yonder all before us lie :Deserts of vast eternity. :Thy beauty shall no more be found, ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 17:58, 27 July 2023
- (Naples) in October, sending a state chariot to carry the visitor over ... the sun. Nero, clad in green and wearing a chariot driver's headdress ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- Tel Megiddo ( מגידו ) is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo, the site of the ancient city of Megiddo, and famous for several ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- destroyed by the surprise initial Hittite chariot attack and Ramesses II had ... most famous relief shows the king on his chariot shooting arrows against ...38 KB (6,086 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2022
- and Surya, the Hindu sun god, riding a chariot drawn by four horses. The newer railings have figures of stupas (reliquary shrines) and garudas ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 05:24, 5 November 2022
- ===Odometer and South Pointing Chariot=== [[Image:Han dynasty odometer ... The South Pointing Chariot was another mechanical device credited ...53 KB (7,780 words) - 16:31, 19 January 2024
- a youth playing his flute, and with Arjuna in his chariot. He is generally characterized as having blue skin (a common characteristic of avatars of Vishnu ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
- rumor that he had gone to heaven in a heavenly chariot. Chester G. Starr, A History of the Ancient World (Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0 ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- Zerubbabel ( זְרֻבָּבֶל , Zərubbāvel; Greek: ζοροβαβελ, Zŏrobabel) was the leader of the first group of Jews, numbering ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- `Rath ka Mela'. The pulling of the rath (the chariot car) by the devotees from the temple to the adjoining gardens highlight the ten day celebration ...13 KB (1,859 words) - 21:50, 3 May 2023
- Ay (other candidates included his wife and chariot-driver). Interestingly, ... likely reason could be the injuries from a chariot accident. ...27 KB (4,279 words) - 02:21, 18 April 2023
- Thomas travels with Siphor in his chariot or coach, but the animals pulling the vehicle soon tire. At Thomas' suggestion, the captain goes ...27 KB (4,575 words) - 05:44, 15 June 2023
- this through magical aids such as a flying chariot. ===Types of Buddhist Deva=== The term deva is defined anthropocentrically to include all those ...16 KB (2,600 words) - 10:11, 29 January 2024
- The most famous relief shows the king on his chariot shooting arrows against his fleeing enemies, who are being taken prisoner. Other scenes show ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- location on the plain of Esdraelon was ideal for chariot operations, so that Jabin controlled not only the main trade routes but held onto the richest ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
- tasks. Socrates uses the parable of the chariot to illustrate his point: a chariot works as a whole because the two horses’ power is directed ...34 KB (5,251 words) - 21:23, 4 October 2022
- mover , wild tiger, flying dragon, free chariot and go between. The names ... 35px|Rook]] || 飛車 || hisha || flying chariot || R || 飛 || hi ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 14:25, 27 January 2023
- battle, Ravana was severely injured, and his chariot and weapons were destroyed. Due to this injury, Rama allowed Ravana to live and return to fight ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 19:05, 16 April 2023
- on his elephant, and Sūrya, the sun god, in his chariot. Later in the first through fourth century India C.E., individually carved figures-either in ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- dates back to Roman times, when supporters of chariot racing teams were frequently involved in major sports riots. A notable example of this is the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:19, 11 August 2022
- the Late Minoan II-era "Room of the Chariot Tablets" in Knossos ... * Athena Hippeia or Athena Hippia, the inventor of the chariot ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
