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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 ...

Plato's allegory of the cave and his chariot allegory are the best known ... * Plato – Phaedrus (Chariot Allegory) (see below) * Book of Revelation ...

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 ...

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. ...

December. In the month of February, the annual chariot festival celebrated here draws enormous crowds. ==Pictures== Image:Balakrishna temple DK ...

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 ...

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 ...

were mountains of bronze. The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses. The third white horses, and the forth chariot dappled gray ...

Ezekiel's visions of the heavenly chariot and fantastic angelic beasts ... mountains--mountains of bronze! The first chariot had red horses, the second ...

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 ...

tribute. As lions they then drew Cybele's chariot. ... the silver statue of Cybele and the chariot that carried her in procession ...

the Alpheus River. The renowned horse and chariot races were once held there. ... temple. The eastern pediment depicts the chariot race between Pelops and ...

[[Image:The Chariot of Zeus - Project Gutenberg eText 14994.png|thumbnail ... him, by riding around in a bronze chariot while imitating the sound ...

feet and contains one thousand warriors in the chariot cavalry corps, with horses and ninety lacquered wooden chariots. It was unveiled to the public ...

#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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

the heavens, either on horseback, in a chariot, or on a boat. His main ... ("right"), and Bunene, his chariot driver, whose consort is ...

In 1961, White published Riders in the Chariot. This was to become ... * Riders in the Chariot (1961) * The Solid Mandala, 1966) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*1888 Cherub with Chariot† *1889 Necessaire† *1890 Danish Palaces *1891 Memory of Azov *1892 Diamond Trellis *1893 Caucasus *1894 Renaissance ...

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 ...

riding in a magnificent winged wheelchair-like chariot." ... with the Stymphalian Birds), Helios's chariot, the shoulder of Pelops ...

[[Image:Elijah-chariot.jpg|thumb|250px|Malachi predicted that Elijah, who ascended to heaven in a chariot of fire, would return to earth before ...

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 ...

*Caskey, Marie. Chariot of fire religion and the Beecher family. Yale historical publications : Miscellany, 117. New Haven: Yale University Press ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

==Operation Plowshare and Project Chariot== [[Image:Project Chariot ... in 1958, and it was designated Project Chariot. While the AEC was scouting ...

Boudica exhorted her troops from her chariot, her daughters beside ... A great bronze statue of Boudica in her war chariot (furnished with ...

with the flag of Hanuman on his chariot. This incident was precipitated by an earlier encounter between Hanuman and Arjuna wherein Hanuman appeared ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[[Image:Chariot spread.png|thumb|200px|Early 2nd millennium introduction ... Sintashta, Kuzmina (1994) argues that the chariot corroborates the identification ...

Varuna also gave Arjuna a divine chariot, with powerful white horses ... into the Kurukshetra battlefield on his chariot steered by Krishna, Arjuna ...

The Chariot of Poseidon, Bardo Museum.[http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/Z2 ... a haloed Poseidon appears in his chariot drawn by hippocamps. Significantly ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

meditation are the two wheels of the chariot of the noble eightfold path and the Buddha strongly recommended developing them both. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

began using leather, affixed by copper studs, on chariot wheels. Skins typically arrived at the tannery dried stiff and dirty with soil and gore ...

:Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; :And yonder all before us lie :Deserts of vast eternity. :Thy beauty shall no more be found, ...

(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 ...

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 ...

destroyed by the surprise initial Hittite chariot attack and Ramesses II had ... most famous relief shows the king on his chariot shooting arrows against ...

and Surya, the Hindu sun god, riding a chariot drawn by four horses. The newer railings have figures of stupas (reliquary shrines) and garudas ...

===Odometer and South Pointing Chariot=== [[Image:Han dynasty odometer ... The South Pointing Chariot was another mechanical device credited ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zerubbabel ( זְרֻבָּבֶל , Zərubbāvel; Greek: ζοροβαβελ, Zŏrobabel) was the leader of the first group of Jews, numbering ...

`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 ...

Ay (other candidates included his wife and chariot-driver). Interestingly, ... likely reason could be the injuries from a chariot accident. ...

Thomas travels with Siphor in his chariot or coach, but the animals pulling the vehicle soon tire. At Thomas' suggestion, the captain goes ...

this through magical aids such as a flying chariot. ===Types of Buddhist Deva=== The term deva is defined anthropocentrically to include all those ...

The most famous relief shows the king on his chariot shooting arrows against his fleeing enemies, who are being taken prisoner. Other scenes show ...

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 ...

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 ...

mover , wild tiger, flying dragon, free chariot and go between. The names ... 35px|Rook]] || 飛車 || hisha || flying chariot || R || 飛 || hi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

the Late Minoan II-era "Room of the Chariot Tablets" in Knossos ... * Athena Hippeia or Athena Hippia, the inventor of the chariot ...

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 ...

the theatre was flooded, horse races and chariot races.Cassius Dio, Roman ... contest comprising athletic displays, chariot races, and competitions ...

and Surya, the Hindu sun god, riding a chariot drawn by four horses. The newer railings have figures of stupas (reliquary shrines) and garudas ...

nearby was the vast Hippodrome for chariot races, seating over 80,000 ... Chariot-racing had been important in Rome for centuries. In Constantinople ...

tractate Khaggigah) of "The Work of the Chariot." Solomon Judah Leib Rapport in Igrot Shir suggests that Meta Tron is a combination ...

[[Image:Ramses II at Kadesh.jpg|200px|thumb|Ramses atop chariot, at the Battle of Kadesh, in a relief inside his Abu Simbel temple.]] ...

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 ...

Lord Krishna pilots young warrior Arjuna's chariot into battle. Panentheism seems evident within this formulation of God as well, in various ...

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 ...

a "horse fighter" or "chariot fighter" according to Homer. ... He then tied Hector's body to his chariot and dragged it around the ...

and the king riding together in a chariot, kissing in public, and Nefertiti sitting on the king's knee, leading scholars to conclude that ...

passage very reminiscent of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and one of his students later reported that the second movement depicted, programatically, the ...

in the English translation, "The triumphal chariot of antimony," in 1604, by Johann Thölde (1565-1614). The marvelous finding of all of the ...

and a magnificently detailed Etruscan chariot known as the "Monteleone chariot." The collection also contains many pieces from far ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

precise date of which is unknown. Combining chariot racing, beast fights, and gladiatorial combat at close quarters, the gory spectacle reputedly left ...

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 ...

dress of charioteer or drove about in his chariot. All this gave rise to a ... #039;s wish and furthermore introduced the chariot race. ...

of God, angelic beings, and the "heavenly chariot" as a guide to personal experience of the divine. The tradition known as merkavah kabbalah ...

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 ...

Han armies were still primarily infantry and chariot based forces.Di Cosmo (2002), 203–204. He advocated the policy of "using barbarians to ...

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 ...

Rev: Alexander triumphantly riding a chariot drawn by elephants]] [[Image:PtolemyCoinWithAlexanderWearingElephantScalp.jpg|thumb|200px|Ptolemy ...

*Demeter is usually portrayed on a chariot, is frequently associated with images of the harvest, including flowers, fruit, and grain. She was ...

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 ...

[[Image:Solvogn.jpg|thumb|400px|right|The Trundholm sun chariot pulled ... larger than the Peloponnesus, and not the chariot of Helios. For teaching ...

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 ...

where it was associated with the wheel of a chariot thus becoming a symbol of political rulership and sovereigenty (as in a "circle/sphere" ...

and throwing. Instead, the Greek sports of chariot racing and wrestling, as well as the Etruscan sport of gladiatorial combat took center stage. ...

of which would feature Washington standing in a chariot. Inside the colonnade would be statues of 30 prominent Revolutionary War heroes. ...

General, who stood in attendance by the imperial chariot in the Hall of Miraculous Mist. He was exiled to the mortal world and made to look like a monster ...

*Ben-Hur (1925) - uncredited Crowd extra in the chariot race *For Heaven's Sake (1926) *The Kid Brother (1927) *Speedy (1928) ...

and in horsemanship, and in the use of the war chariot, and in archery and fencing? :-Not at all. I had learnt all that before. :-But why? ...

Swine) when she was not using her cat-drawn chariot. According to the poem Hyndluljóð, Freyja concealed the identity of her protégé Óttar by turning ...

Thor travels in a chariot drawn by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr (Tooth-Grinder and Tooth-Gnasher) with his servant and messenger Þjálfi ...

songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing", and reading of works by noted African-American ...

[[File:Ashurbanipal in a chariot, wall relief, 7th century BC, from Nineveh, the British Museum.jpg|thumb|400px|Seventh-century B.C.E. relief ...

Senators by forcing them to run alongside his chariot in their full robes. It is from this point on that there is a marked change in the biography of ...

at a pool in Samaria, and the blood on his chariot is licked up by the dogs ... portion of your spirit." A flaming chariot and horses then come to ...

. Filmed as The Phantom Carriage, The Phantom Chariot, The Stroke of Midnight. * sv|Stormyrtossen: Folkskädespel i 4 akter (1913) with Bernt Fredgren ...

E.) and included ceremonial vessels, weapons, and chariot fittings. During the Zhou dynasty (周, 1100 – 256 B.C.E.) designs became more complex and ...

The Vedas (Devanagari sa|वेद ) are a large corpus of texts originating in ancient India. They are the oldest scriptural texts of Hinduism ...

:1. Arjuna bids Krishna to move the chariot between the hosts. As he sees his relatives on the side of the Kurus, he loses courage. ...

Krishna, who has chosen to drive Arjuna's chariot, wakes him up to his call of duty in the famous Bhagavadgita section of the epic. Though initially ...

slaves sang hymns like "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," longing for the day when they depart from their earthly toil under the slave-master's ...

wearing a leopard skin, or being pulled by a chariot drawn by panthers and has been called the god of cats and savagery. He always carried a thyrsus ...

fire, like Elijah, who rode to heaven in a fiery chariot. An angel appeared in the flames of the thorn bush (Gen. 16:13; Judg. 6:21, 22; 2 Kings, 2:11; ...

said to possess devices such as a south-pointing chariot. One was the luopan, a reticulated plate used to correlate the solar and lunar calendars ...

anywhere is in the LMII-era "Room of the Chariot Tablets." Later Cretan archives date to LMIIIA (contemporary with LHIIIA) but no later than that. ...

, the ultimate Unity (Ein Sof), and the Divine Chariot (Merkabah)). ===New Age=== New Age New Age meditations are often ostensibly grounded in ...

of findings including lurs and the Sun Chariot. During the Pre-Roman Iron Age (500 C.E. – 1 C.E.), native groups began migrating south, although ...

Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life. (1992) London: Chariot Victor Publishing, 1997. ISBN 978-0745922416 * Dale, Alzina Stone, ed. Dorothy L. Sayers: ...

The Rigveda (Sanskrit: sa|ऋग्वेद , meaning "verses of wisdom") is the oldest translatable scripture in the Hindu religion ...

#039;s death, "Dead is the horseman and chariot of Israel who ruled the Church in this last age of the world!" On the other hand, Luther ...

they are also found as part of the horse-and-chariot gear and as collar-bells of dogs. Falkenhausen (1994), 134. The book of Exodus in the Bible ...

shore of the Gulf of Malis so narrow that only one chariot could pass through. Herodotus, The Histories VII 175 On the southern side of the track ...

Elijah never actually died, but was raptured in a chariot of fire. Furthermore, the prophetic texts stated that God would send Elijah back to Earth ...

when faced with the Romans in Britain, their chariot tactics defeated the invasion attempted by Julius Caesar. However, the Celts were master horsemen ...

The most popular and expensive competition was chariot racing. ===Education=== For most of Greek history, education was private, except in Sparta ...

* The chariot of Israel: Britain, America and the State of Israel. Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Michael Joseph, ISBN 1981718120027. ...

and in horsemanship, and in the use of the war chariot, and in archery and fencing? :-Not at all. I had learnt all that before. :-But why? ...

also factional, like the Nika riots between two chariot racing factions at the Hippodrome of Constantinople. A few instances of recorded political ...

red. The location of the earliest spoke-wheeled chariot finds is indicated in purple. Adjacent and overlapping cultures (Afanasevo culture, Srubna ...

Where civic functions and infrastructure such as chariot races, aqueducts, and roads were maintained, the work was frequently done at the expense of ...

of 416 where "he entered seven teams in the chariot race, more than any private citizen had ever put forward, and three of them came in first, ...

the self is described as a rider, the body as a chariot, the intellect as the charioteer and the mind as the reins. The physical senses are likened to ...

showing the head of a captive Gaul, and a Britonic chariot on the reverse. Coin Expert [[Michael Crawford (historian)|Michael Crawford]] rejects the ...

The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and France, with a short coastline ...

with his vision of God's throne, mounted on a chariot surrounded by wheels and strange living creatures, for now matter how he tries, he can only ...