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In Greek mythology, Hyperion (/ h aɪ ˈ p ɪər i ə n /; Ancient Greek: Ὑπερίων, 'he who goes before') [1] was one of the twelve Titan children of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). [2] With his sister, the Titaness Theia , Hyperion fathered Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn).
In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort for this verse is: Μάτην δὲ σέβονταί με, διδάσκοντες διδασκαλίας ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Some Titans seem only to serve a genealogical function, providing parents for more important offspring: Coeus and Phoebe as the parents of Leto, the mother, by Zeus, of the Olympians Apollo and Artemis; Hyperion and Theia as the parents of Helios, Selene and Eos; Iapetus as the father of Atlas and Prometheus; and Crius as the father of three ...
Hyperion is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, of which there are several notable versions.Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Sal Buscema, the original Hyperion made his debut in The Avengers #69 (October 1969). [1]
Anglican biblical commentator William Boyd Carpenter writes that "the word sign is preferable to wonder, both in this verse and in Revelation 12:3. It is the same word which is rendered sign in Revelation 15:1. It is a sign which is seen: not a mere wonder, but something which has a meaning; it is not 'a surprise ending with itself', but a ...
Hyperion, a Fragment is an abandoned epic poem by 19th-century English Romantic poet John Keats. It was published in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820). [ 1 ] It is based on the Titanomachia , and tells of the despair of the Titans after their fall to the Olympians.
Peter's vision of a sheet with animals, the vision painted by Domenico Fetti (1619) Illustration from Treasures of the Bible by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1894. According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel (Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being ...
In Greek mythology, Hyperion (/ h aɪ ˈ p ɪər i ə n /; Greek: Ὑπερίων, romanized: Hyperíōn, 'the high one') may refer to two different characters: Hyperion, one of the Titans and father of Helios, Selene and Eos by his sister-wife Theia. [1] Hyperion, a Trojan prince as one of the sons of King Priam of Troy by an unknown woman. [2]