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Apple of Discord (also Golden Apple of Discord), the goddess Eris inscribed "to the fairest" and tossed in the midst of the festivities at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. (Greek mythology) Forbidden fruit, eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which they had been commanded not to do by God. (Christian mythology/Jewish mythology)
Religious schism and discord: Chief among this category is Muhammad, the founder of Islam: his body is ripped from groin to chin, with his entrails hanging out. Dante apparently saw Muhammad as causing a schism within Christianity when he and his followers splintered off.
Similarly, Eris, the malevolent "Goddess of Discord and Chaos", is the main antagonist in the DreamWorks 2003 animated movie Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas against Sinbad and his allies. The dwarf planet Eris was named after this Greek goddess in 2006. [103] In 2019, the New Zealand moth species Ichneutica eris was named in honour of Eris. [104]
Deities in Dungeons & Dragons have a great variety of moral outlooks and motives, [8] which have to be considered by cleric player characters. [9] In some editions of the game, deities were given statistics, allowing mighty player characters to kill a god like a powerful monster.
Reviewed by Dietitian Annie Nguyen, M.A., RD. Your heart is arguably the hardest-working muscle in your body. Every day it pumps nearly 2,000 gallons of blood through your arteries to supply the ...
The people, because of the ongoing public discord, and in order to spite the senate and the consuls, instead awarded the honour of dedicating the temple to Marcus Laetorius, the senior military officer of one of the legions. The senate and the consuls, in particular the conservative Appius, were outraged at this decision, and it inflamed the ...
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.