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- (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
- of horses being ridden was in the military: chariot warfare in ancient times was followed by the use of war horses as light and heavy cavalry. However ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 19:15, 13 February 2024
- the theatre was flooded, horse races and chariot races.Cassius Dio, Roman ... contest comprising athletic displays, chariot races, and competitions ...53 KB (7,893 words) - 19:45, 12 July 2023
- and Surya, the Hindu sun god, riding a chariot drawn by four horses. The newer railings have figures of stupas (reliquary shrines) and garudas ...16 KB (2,541 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- nearby was the vast Hippodrome for chariot races, seating over 80,000 ... Chariot-racing had been important in Rome for centuries. In Constantinople ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- tractate Khaggigah) of "The Work of the Chariot." Solomon Judah Leib Rapport in Igrot Shir suggests that Meta Tron is a combination ...18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
- [[Image:Ramses II at Kadesh.jpg|200px|thumb|Ramses atop chariot, at the Battle of Kadesh, in a relief inside his Abu Simbel temple.]] ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- War) and Sanjaya, his advisor and chariot driver, who has the gift of seeing events at a distance granted by the rishi Vyasa. Sanjaya narrates ...17 KB (2,751 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- Lord Krishna pilots young warrior Arjuna's chariot into battle. Panentheism seems evident within this formulation of God as well, in various ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- an ear of corn, sitting on a winged throne or chariot, surrounded by Persephone and Demeter with pine torches. The Niinnion Tablet in the same ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- a "horse fighter" or "chariot fighter" according to Homer. ... He then tied Hector's body to his chariot and dragged it around the ...34 KB (5,355 words) - 15:14, 24 December 2023
- and the king riding together in a chariot, kissing in public, and Nefertiti sitting on the king's knee, leading scholars to conclude that ...18 KB (2,906 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- passage very reminiscent of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and one of his students later reported that the second movement depicted, programatically, the ...18 KB (2,917 words) - 12:12, 30 October 2021
- in the English translation, "The triumphal chariot of antimony," in 1604, by Johann Thölde (1565-1614). The marvelous finding of all of the ...17 KB (2,369 words) - 06:33, 31 July 2023
- and a magnificently detailed Etruscan chariot known as the "Monteleone chariot." The collection also contains many pieces from far ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- appeared at Sinai, He descended in the heavenly chariot described by the prophet Ezekiel, with its four angelic beasts, one of them being the ox (Ezek ...19 KB (3,041 words) - 13:10, 19 December 2022
- tongue." When Agamemnon arrives in his chariot, he has on board the prophetess Cassandra as a slave and concubine. This, of course, serves to anger ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 2023
- mighty bow, resting upon an eight-wheeled chariot. Rama without any apparent ... among whom Sita had dropped from the chariot her scarf and some ornaments ...37 KB (6,200 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- precise date of which is unknown. Combining chariot racing, beast fights, and gladiatorial combat at close quarters, the gory spectacle reputedly left ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- used two new weapons: A catapult and a covered chariot with swinging mace that has been compared to a modern tank. Pataliputra began to grow as a ...20 KB (3,019 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- dress of charioteer or drove about in his chariot. All this gave rise to a ... #039;s wish and furthermore introduced the chariot race. ...39 KB (6,311 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- of God, angelic beings, and the "heavenly chariot" as a guide to personal experience of the divine. The tradition known as merkavah kabbalah ...21 KB (3,408 words) - 01:46, 23 June 2022
- carried battle-axes and lances. The Sumerian chariot comprised a four or two-wheeled device manned by a crew of two and harnessed to four onagers. The ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- Han armies were still primarily infantry and chariot based forces.Di Cosmo (2002), 203–204. He advocated the policy of "using barbarians to ...20 KB (3,183 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- especially the story of Ezekiel and the chariot. The prophet Ezekiel's ... figures, Ezekiel sees God sitting on a chariot or throne of blue lapis ...68 KB (10,629 words) - 21:49, 4 October 2022
- Rev: Alexander triumphantly riding a chariot drawn by elephants]] [[Image:PtolemyCoinWithAlexanderWearingElephantScalp.jpg|thumb|200px|Ptolemy ...22 KB (3,249 words) - 23:34, 2 December 2022
- *Demeter is usually portrayed on a chariot, is frequently associated with images of the harvest, including flowers, fruit, and grain. She was ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- riots in Constantinople in January of 532, in which chariot racing fanatics had forced Justinian to dismiss the unpopular Tribonian and two of his other ...22 KB (3,355 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- [[Image:Solvogn.jpg|thumb|400px|right|The Trundholm sun chariot pulled ... larger than the Peloponnesus, and not the chariot of Helios. For teaching ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- mythical king of Olympia, famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honor the games were held. At first involving only a foot race, then ...28 KB (4,253 words) - 00:34, 18 November 2022
- where it was associated with the wheel of a chariot thus becoming a symbol of political rulership and sovereigenty (as in a "circle/sphere" ...24 KB (3,564 words) - 17:25, 30 September 2021
