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Young Hermann's tortoises emerge just after the start of the heavy autumn rains in early September and spend the first four or five years of their lives within just a few metres of their nests. [14] If the rains do not come, or if nesting took place late in the year, the eggs will still hatch, but the young will remain underground and not ...
There it is a mountain nymph called Chelone (Χελώνη, the Greek for tortoise) who did not deign to be present at the wedding of Zeus. The divine messenger Hermes was then sent to throw her and her house into the river, where she was changed into the animal now bearing her name. [8]
The noun χελώνη is the ancient Greek word for both the land tortoise and the sea turtle. [1] Traditionally the word is considered to derive from an Indo-European root *gʰel(H)-ewH-denoting turtles and tortoises, however it has also been suggested that it must be a loanword from a non-Indo-European language, a theory that Beekes supports.
Tiếng Việt; Winaray; ... Yonder, too, is the tiny Tortoise, which, while still beside his cradle, Hermes pierced for strings and bade it be called the Lyre [Lyra ...
The shape of the Indian star tortoise resembles a gömböc. This tortoise rolls easily to a right-side-up position without relying much on its limbs. The Argentine snake-necked turtle is an example of a flat turtle, which relies on its long neck and legs to turn over when placed upside down.
A tortoise at the back door of a house or in the backyard by a pond is said to attract good fortune and many blessings. Three tortoises stacked on top of each other represent a mother and her babies. [37] In Daoist art, the tortoise is an emblem of the triad of earth-humankind-heaven. [38] The tortoise is a symbol of longevity. [2]
Feijian, a sword borrowed from Lü Dongbin to Xuanwu in order to subdue the spirits of the tortoise and the snake. Gan Jiang and Mo Ye, the legendary Chinese twin swords named after their creators. Glory of Ten Powers, a legendary Chinese sword allegedly forged in Tibet by husband-and-wife magicians of the ancient Bön tradition.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.