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Odysseus removing his men from the company of the lotus-eaters. In Greek mythology, lotophages or the lotus-eaters (Ancient Greek: λωτοφάγοι, romanized: lōtophágoi) were a race of people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree off coastal Libya (Island of Djerba), [1] [2] a plant whose botanical identity is uncertain.
The great oak tree of the maiden of the island is felled to create a bridge, ships and a hut. Canto VII - The return of Kalevipoeg Kalevipoeg takes the sorcerer's boat and returns home. The brothers tell their stories. Kalevipoeg visits his father's grave again. Canto VIII - The contest and parting of the brothers Kalevipoeg throwing the stone.
According to the "New History" of Ptolemy Hephaestion (according to Photius) and Eustathius, the plant mentioned by Homer grew from the blood of the Giant Picolous killed on Circe's island, by Helios, father and ally of Circe, when the Giant tried to attack Circe. In this description the flower had a black root, for the colour of the blood of ...
View on El Nabatat Island of the Aswan Botanical Garden and west bank of Nile. Palm tree allée (landscape avenue), in the Aswan Botanical Garden.. El Nabatat Island or Kitchener's Island, [1] [2] (جزيرة النباتات Geziret En Nabatat (Plant Island) or the Botanical Island) [3] [4] is a small, oval-shaped island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt.
Many scholars believe that the flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who used the flood story from the Epic of Atra-Hasis. [1] A short reference to the flood myth is also present in the much older Sumerian Gilgamesh poems, from which the later Babylonian versions drew much of their ...
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An island off the Kamchatka Peninsula codenamed Katorga-12 is sectioned off as a top secret research, mining, and refining facility. After an incident with the E99 generator, the E99 radiation is spread all over the island. E99 can warp time, mutate living organisms grotesquely, and provide a clean, if dangerous, energy source.
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