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"Myrmidon" later came to mean "hired ruffian", according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Henry Fielding in Tom Jones (1749, Book XV, ch. 5) employs the term in the sense of "hired thugs": "The door flew open, and in came Squire Western, with his parson and a set of myrmidons at his heels." The Royal Navy has had several ships called HMS Myrmidon.
ORP Orkan, formerly HMS Myrmidon, was an M-class destroyer of the Polish Navy during World War II. Orkan is Polish for " hurricane ". The destroyer was sunk by the German submarine U-378 on 8 October 1943.
In Greek mythology Phthia (/ ˈ θ aɪ ə /; Ancient Greek: Φθία or Φθίη Phthía, Phthíē) was a city or district in ancient Thessaly. [1] It is frequently mentioned in Homer's Iliad as the home of the Myrmidons, the contingent led by Achilles in the Trojan War.
Myrmidon was the son of Zeus and Eurymedusa, [4] daughter of Cleitor (Cletor) [5] or of the river god Achelous. [6]He married Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus and Enarete, and by her became the father of Antiphus and Actor. [7]
Myrmidon of Athens, an Athenian commander of the 4th century BC; Myrmidon Club, a dining club at Merton College, University of Oxford; Operation Myrmidon, a planned raid during the Second World War on the Adour Estuary in south-western France; Myrmidons of Melodrama, a compilation album by American pop girl group The Shangri-Las
A sigil (/ ˈ s ɪ dʒ ɪ l /) [1] is a type of symbol used in magic. The term usually refers to a pictorial signature of a spirit (such as an angel , demon , or deity ). In modern usage, especially in the context of chaos magic , a sigil refers to a symbolic representation of the practitioner's desired outcome.
In demonology, sigils are pictorial signatures attributed to demons, angels, or other beings. In the ceremonial magic of the Middle Ages, sigils were used in the summoning of these beings and were the pictorial equivalent to their true name.
The sigils of the reigning families are added to each location; for example, the Baratheon stag sigil on King's Landing and the Stark dire wolf at Winterfell. [4] The names of the cast are also shown together with the corresponding sigil of the character they portray. [ 12 ]