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"For the Bible it was the wrath of God. In the Welsh flood story, it was caused by a terrible monster." [ 2 ] The figure Dwyfach is identified with the small Dwyfach ( Welsh : little Dwy ) river of Gwynedd entering Cardigan Bay near Porthmadog , whilst Dwyfan is identified with the river it enters, the Dwyfawr or Dwyfor .
The full story of Siproites has been lost to time; the above passage is all that remains, as Antoninus Liberalis alone preserves the tale in a brief and obscure reference, [7] [8] and that within the context of an altogether different myth in which a Cretan woman named Galatea lists various occasions of gods changing the sex of mortals while begging the goddess Leto to change her daughter ...
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Anatoly Liberman gives a full survey of the literature and suggests that the word meant "shining." [ 2 ] William of Malmesbury 's 12th century Chronicle tells the story of Sceafa as a sleeping child in a boat without oars with a sheaf of corn at his head.
Ovid's account of the story is the fullest and most detailed of the surviving ones. According to him, Clytie was a lover of the god of the sun Helios, until Aphrodite made him fall in love with a Persian mortal princess called Leucothoe, in revenge for him informing her husband Hephaestus of her illicit affair with his brother Ares, the god of ...
In Mesopotamian mythology the urmahlullu, or lion-man, served as a guardian spirit, especially of bathrooms. [4] [5] The Old Babylonian Lilitu demon, particularly as shown in the Burney Relief (part-woman, part-owl) prefigures the harpy/siren motif. Harpies were human sized birds with the faces of human women. They were once considered ...
The first Westerner to take note of the Nart stories was the German scholar Julius von Klaproth, who traveled to the Caucasus during the first decade of the 19th century. [4] The earliest written account of the material is attributed to the Kabardian author Shora Begmurzin Nogma , who wrote in Russian in 1835–1843, published posthumously in 1861.
"The Writing of the God" (original Spanish title: "La escritura del dios", sometimes translated as "The God's Script") is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was published in Sur in February 1949, and later reprinted in the collection The Aleph .