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1909 painting The Worship of Mammon by Evelyn De Morgan. Mammon (Aramaic: מָמוֹנָא, māmōnā) in the New Testament is commonly thought to mean money, material wealth, or any entity that promises wealth, and is associated with the greedy pursuit of gain.
A black archer whose feet and legs face left, upper body facing right, flanked by two Amazones. "Mayence identifies the black person with Memnon, whereas Beazley and Bothmer regard him as an attendant of Memnon."
Mammon, originally exhibited as Mammon.Dedicated to his Worshippers, is an 1885 oil painting by English artist George Frederic Watts, currently in Tate Britain.One of a number of paintings by Watts in this period on the theme of the corrupting influence of wealth, Mammon shows a scene from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in which Mammon, the embodiment of greed, crushes the weak through his ...
In Pale Rider, Mammon is referred to by the preacher (Clint Eastwood) in the usual sense (You cannot serve both God and Mammon) in his deliberations with a corrupt businessman who has hired thugs and a grim band of deputies, in to run a settlement of gold prospectors off their claim so that he can extract all wealth from the land using destructive, deafening industrial methods.
The Colossi of Memnon (Arabic: el-Colossat or es-Salamat) are two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which stand at the front of the ruined Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, the largest temple in the Theban Necropolis.
Mammon (comics), an antagonist in the Spawn comic book series Mammon (Dungeons & Dragons), a devil in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game Mammon, a Hai-Genti in the 2006 video game Maelstrom
Manon (French pronunciation:) is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.
The butterfly is large with a 120 to 150 millimetres (4.7 to 5.9 in) span. It has four male and many female forms, the females being highly polymorphic and many of them being mimics of unpalatable butterflies.