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For all the stories of heroes, self-sacrifice and so on, encountering it in the flesh is a very different matter. Someone asked "[People] who had their lives saved by someone that gave up theirs ...
The central themes of the mythology of Chhinnamasta are her self-sacrifice – with a maternal aspect (in the Pranatoshini Tantra versions) or for the welfare of the world (in the Samudra manthan oral version described above) – her sexual dominance (second Pranatoshini Tantra version), and her self-destructive fury (in the first oral legend ...
These two kinds of sacrifice do not obey the principle and not belongs to self-sacrifice. [4] Although there were many heroic events of self-sacrifice worth eulogizing, suicide terrorism, a violent type of self-sacrifice, has been more prevalent [clarification needed] in recent decades and drawing wide attention. An estimated 3,500 such ...
Hitobashira traditions were almost always practiced in conjunction with the building of complex, dangerous, often water-related projects, such as bridges. The stories of hitobashira were believed to inspire a spirit of self-sacrifice in people. [5] Stories of hitobashira and other human sacrifices were common in Japan as late as the sixteenth ...
The story of the self-sacrifice of this national hero must be narrated in the language of art and the pen of the people of culture and media in a historical way so that this model teenager can inspire the future generations of the children of Islamic Iran. Undoubtedly, every Iranian is proud to have such zealous children."
The figure of Titusz Dugovics has become one of the best known symbols of heroic self-sacrifice and patriotism in today's Hungarian historical tradition. In a narrower sense, it is a symbol of self-sacrificing heroism of all the Christians who defended their country and Christianity from the Turkish attack, as well as the self-sacrificing ...
The story of Marcus Curtius, sacrificing himself for the cause of the commonwealth, became well known theme during the Renaissance, due to etchings made by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1507/1508) and the Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius (1586). It was also depicted in the famous Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel (1493).
"Nosferatu," the 2024 remake of the classic 1922 horror movie, ends with a sensual act of self-sacrifice — which some viewers may find confusing. The film tells the story of Thomas Hutter ...