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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.
Darangen is a Maranao epic poem from the Lake Lanao region of Mindanao, Philippines.It consists of 17 cycles with 72,000 lines in iambic tetrameter or catalectic trochaic tetrameter. [1]
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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.
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.
Cage of Eden (Japanese: エデンの檻, Hepburn: Eden no Ori) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshinobu Yamada. It follows a group of teenage survivors of a plane crash who find themselves in a mysterious island inhabited by extinct prehistoric creatures and plants.
The Epic of Gilgamesh describes Gilgamesh travelling to a wondrous garden of the gods that is the source of a river, next to a mountain covered in cedars, and references a "plant of life". In the myth, paradise is identified as the place where the deified Sumerian hero of the flood, Utnapishtim , was taken by the gods to live forever.
The story states that the two groups lived in harmony until a conflict arose. The source of the conflict varies in different tellings or retellings of the legend. The Hanau epe were soon overwhelmed by the Hanau momoko, and were forced to retreat, taking refuge in a corner of the island near Poike , protected by a long ditch, which they turned ...