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- E.) originally invented the South Pointing Chariot, a two-wheeled vehicle which ... ==The South Pointing Chariot== pic=|picsize=|piccap=|t=指南車|s ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- Plato's allegory of the cave and his chariot allegory are the best known ... * Plato – Phaedrus (Chariot Allegory) (see below) * Book of Revelation ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- were also sometimes seen as pulling the chariot of the pharaohs. Crystal ... Sun; and ancient painters represented the chariot of the Sun as drawn by griffins ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 19:20, 31 January 2023
- a quadriga: four massive horses pulling a chariot in which rode images of ... shattered the columns and sent the bronze chariot crashing to the ground. ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 00:51, 9 November 2022
- December. In the month of February, the annual chariot festival celebrated here draws enormous crowds. ==Pictures== Image:Balakrishna temple DK ...12 KB (1,695 words) - 17:01, 21 January 2024
- Tomb of Fu Hao and the Exhibition Hall of Chariot Pits stand out among the ... The Exhibition Hall of Chariot Pits, also located on site, displays ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- with ten heads and twenty arms, mounted on a chariot drawn by creatures that look to be a mixture of horse, lion and bird. Vibhishana is shown standing ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 00:11, 8 December 2022
- were mountains of bronze. The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses. The third white horses, and the forth chariot dappled gray ...13 KB (2,133 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- Ezekiel's visions of the heavenly chariot and fantastic angelic beasts ... mountains--mountains of bronze! The first chariot had red horses, the second ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- They are also described as acting as the chariot of Yahweh in Ezekiel's ... cherubim being described as acting as the chariot of Yahweh in Ezekiel's ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- tribute. As lions they then drew Cybele's chariot. ... the silver statue of Cybele and the chariot that carried her in procession ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- the Alpheus River. The renowned horse and chariot races were once held there. ... temple. The eastern pediment depicts the chariot race between Pelops and ...17 KB (2,779 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- [[Image:The Chariot of Zeus - Project Gutenberg eText 14994.png|thumbnail ... him, by riding around in a bronze chariot while imitating the sound ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- feet and contains one thousand warriors in the chariot cavalry corps, with horses and ninety lacquered wooden chariots. It was unveiled to the public ...13 KB (1,945 words) - 14:58, 30 April 2023
- #039;s ascension to Heaven in a fiery chariot). In many Slavic countries ... into Heaven in a whirlwind and a fiery chariot before he could complete ...18 KB (2,908 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- Roman Games stressed the Greek sports of chariot racing and wrestling, along ... same as the Olympic Games. A four-horse chariot race was held in a hippodrome ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- mythical king of Olympia, famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honor the games were held. The number of events increased to 20, and the celebration ...7 KB (1,101 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- the heavens, either on horseback, in a chariot, or on a boat. His main ... ("right"), and Bunene, his chariot driver, whose consort is ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- In 1961, White published Riders in the Chariot. This was to become ... * Riders in the Chariot (1961) * The Solid Mandala, 1966) ...13 KB (2,140 words) - 16:45, 21 November 2022
- and the Greek sun-god Apollo stopped his chariot (the sun) in order to listen ... fire bird which is considered as the chariot of the Hindu god Vishnu ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- 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
