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  • The Chariot of Poseidon, Bardo Museum.[http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/Z2 ... a haloed Poseidon appears in his chariot drawn by hippocamps. Significantly ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • meditation are the two wheels of the chariot of the noble eightfold path and the Buddha strongly recommended developing them both. ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • began using leather, affixed by copper studs, on chariot wheels. Skins typically arrived at the tannery dried stiff and dirty with soil and gore ...
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  • :Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; :And yonder all before us lie :Deserts of vast eternity. :Thy beauty shall no more be found, ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • destroyed by the surprise initial Hittite chariot attack and Ramesses II had ... most famous relief shows the king on his chariot shooting arrows against ...
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  • and Surya, the Hindu sun god, riding a chariot drawn by four horses. The newer railings have figures of stupas (reliquary shrines) and garudas ...
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  • ===Odometer and South Pointing Chariot=== [[Image:Han dynasty odometer ... The South Pointing Chariot was another mechanical device credited ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Zerubbabel ( זְרֻבָּבֶל , Zərubbāvel; Greek: ζοροβαβελ, Zŏrobabel) was the leader of the first group of Jews, numbering ...
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  • `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 ...
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  • Ay (other candidates included his wife and chariot-driver). Interestingly, ... likely reason could be the injuries from a chariot accident. ...
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