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The silambu is a hollow anklet filled with beads that produce noise when the wearer moves or dances. [2] It may be worn on the ankle or the leg. When worn on the leg, it is termed kālchilambu in Tamil. [3] Some varieties of silambu are made of copper and use iron balls to produce sound. [4] Others are made of silver. [5]
An anklet on female feet A toe ring with attached anklet. An anklet, also called ankle chain, ankle bracelet or ankle string, is an ornament worn around the ankle. [1] Barefoot anklets and toe rings historically have been worn for at least over 8,000 years by girls and women in Indus Valley, in Indian Subcontinent where it is commonly known as pattilu, payal, golusu and sometimes as nupur.
In Vafþrúðnismál (The Lay of Vafþrúðnir), Odin questions the wise jötunn Vafþrúðnir about the origin of the wind, and the jötunn answers: [1] He is called Hræsvelg, who sits at heaven’s end,
Returning from India he brought back not only the alms bowl of the Buddha but Pattini's sacred anklet, and constructed a temple to the goddess 'at a place called Vattapalli near Mullaitivu'. [7] However, there is an alternative view that the cult actually arrived in Sri Lanka in the 13th century, and the legend of Gajabahu's patronage was ...
Calamity James, a British comic book character from The Beano; Calamity Jane, a 1953 film based on the person; Calamity Town, a 1942 novel by Ellery Queen; The Calamity, a central plot point for the 2011 video game Bastion; Calamity, a mod for the 2011 video game Terraria "Calamity", a song by Zayn from his 2021 album Nobody Is Listening
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Early Chinese wind spirits were many. The Shang had the masters of the four directions, [9] an eastern tradition had the naturalistic "Great Wind" (大風), another tradition considered the winnowing basket constellation (箕星, [10] comprising four stars in Sagittarius) as the controller of the winds, the south had Feilian, and theorists have speculated that a number of named mythical birds ...
After 13 years of civil war, Syria's opposition militias sensed an opportunity to loosen President Bashar al-Assad's grip on power when, about six months ago, they communicated to Turkey plans for ...