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The god's role in helping sailors distinguish favorable winds also prompts the translations "Fair-Wind Ears" [3] and "Favorable-Wind Ears". [8] [9] It also appears as Shunfeng Er [1] and Shen Feng Er. [10] His partner Qianliyan's name similarly means "Sharp-Eyed" or "All-Seeing". Under the Ming, Shunfeng'er was also known as Shi Kuang. [11]
His crossword style was initially in imitation of Torquemada, [1] but was soon influenced by the inventive puzzles of Alistair Ferguson Ritchie who wrote as Afrit in The Listener. From 1943, he was also a contributor to The Listener , writing crosswords under the pseudonym Tesremos – his middle name spelled backwards.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Augustine: That He commands, And from him that would borrow of thee, turn not away, must be referred to the mind; for God loveth a cheerful giver. (2 Cor. 9:7.) (2 Cor. 9:7.) And every one that receives, indeed borrows, though it is not he that shall pay, but God, who restores to the merciful many fold.
2 Timothy 4:4: And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. Paul uses the word fables (μύθους) to describe the remedy that people seek in order to scratch their itching ears. However, Paul continues to fulfill the analogy in chapter 4 verse 5 by contrasting Timothy's ministry from these fables.
Apotropaic magic (from Greek αποτρέπω, apotrépō 'to ward off') or protective magic is a type of magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences, as in deflecting misfortune or averting the evil eye.
By the Renaissance, fauns were depicted as two-footed creatures with the horns, legs, and tail of a goat and the head, torso, and arms of a human; they are often depicted with pointed ears. These late-form mythological creatures borrowed their look from the satyrs, who in turn borrowed their look from the god Pan of the Greek pantheon.
Psalm 44 is the 44th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us".In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and generally in its Latin translations, this psalm is Psalm 43.