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As a biblical reference, the metaphor may refer to physical armour worn by God in metaphorical battles, or it may refer to vigilant righteousness in general as bestowed by the grace of God (Romans 13:12, King James Version): "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the ...
Tree of the knowledge of good and evil, one of two trees in the story of the Garden of Eden, along with the tree of life. ( Christian mythology / Jewish mythology ) Golden Bough , before entering Hades , Deiphobe tells Aeneas he must obtain the bough of gold which grows nearby in the woods around her cave, and must be given as a gift to ...
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BC) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
There are three primary categories of tree construction methods: top-down, bottom-up, and insertion methods. Top-down methods proceed by partitioning the input set into two (or more) subsets, bounding them in the chosen bounding volume, then keep partitioning (and bounding) recursively until each subset consists of only a single primitive (leaf nodes are reached).
Referenced by Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing when Don Pedro courts Hero for Claudio (2.1.95), and also in As You Like It by Jaques (3.3.7-8). Australian writer Ursula Dubosarsky published a play for children, The Goose Who Was Nearly Cooked, based on the story of Philemon and Baucis. [5] Referenced in Nadja by André Breton.
The Babylonian Genesis (PDF) (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-32399-4. Jordan, Michael. (2014). Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses. New York: Infobase Publishing. ISBN 9781438109855. Leeming, David Adams. (2005). The Oxford Companion to World Mythology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-515669-0.
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An excerpt from a hadith attributed to Abu Huraira (one of Muhammad's companions) is famously quoted in the 1988 founding charter of Hamas, Article 7, stating that every stone and tree—except for the gharqad tree—will speak aloud to reveal if a Jew is taking cover, so that the Muslim army can find and kill the Jew.