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Valkyrie
A Valkyrie is a figure in Norse mythology depicted as a warrior woman on horseback, a wolf or boar, and armed with a spear, who decides the fate of warriors in battle and carries the dead to Odin’s Valhalla. Valkyrie means "chooser of the slain", and those chosen will fight beside Odin at Ragnarök. Valhalla is Odin’s Hall of Heroes where the spirits of fallen warriors battle each other all day, return to life and health at evening, and spend the night drinking. It was one of f...
How Cats Became Divine Symbols in Ancient Egypt | HISTORY
Aug 17, 2021 How Cats Became Divine Symbols in Ancient Egypt Felines served a useful purpose in ancient Egyptian households and were eventually associated with deities. By Elizabeth Yuko ...
Coyote Moon
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Coyote Moon (review) See all of Coyote Moon, no other writeups in this node. (review) by Glowing Fish Mon May 31 2021 at 20:31:26 "Coyote Moon" is a 2003 novel by John A Miller. It falls roughly in the category of literary fiction, with some possible science-fiction elements. It is unclear in this book whether these elements are "real", or whether the book is engaging in some "magical realism". I found this book in a Little Free L...
A Short Analysis of Lewis Carroll’s ‘How Doth the Little Crocodile’
‘How Doth the Little Crocodile’ is a poem by Lewis Carroll, one of the two acknowledged masters of Victorian nonsense verse (along with Edward Lear). Although the poem is among his most popular, after ‘Jabberwocky’, ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’, and The Hunting of the Snark, its curious origins are less well-known. Before we offer a few words of analysis about the poem, it might be worth recapping the words to ‘How Doth the Little Crocodile’, a poem of two stanzas. How Doth the ...
Birds as Characters in Fiction (75 books)
Listopia Birds as Characters in Fiction Fiction with birds as characters. Includes animal fiction, animal fantasy, anthropomorphic fiction, and xenofiction. All Votes Add Books To This List 1 Beak of the Moon by Philip Temple (Goodreads Author) 4.28 ...
Creep
It’s an autumnal December, one month into the hibernation of lesser horseshoe bats. They would breathe just once an hour, but for the balmy air troubling their sleep. Their eyelids quiver. Ears twitch for the pacifying fizz and pat of first snow; failing that, for the thawing stalactite drip of the new season, begun already? Perhaps the cold has been and gone. Perhaps they missed it, having tucked themselves too far inside the cave’s oblivion.Fiadh had stared out the conference window at the ...
American Bestiary
Home » Lifestyle on a Budget » The American Bestiary: The Most Famous Mythical Creature of Every US State, Illustrated By Barbara DavidsonPosted on March 20, 2019 The American Bestiary: The Most Famous Mythical Creature of Every US State, IllustratedA bestiary is a catalog of animals, birds, and other natural (or imaginary) phenomena. Intended not as a textbook but as an inspirational (and often scientifically dubious) compendium, the bestiary first appeared in ancient Greece, but the ...
Javelina Fact Sheet
Javelina Fact Sheet - Skip Links Close We’re open! For your safety we’ve made modifications to our operations. Please be sure to review the FAQs before your visit. All guests, including members, must reserve tickets in advance Animal Fact Sheet: Collared Peccary or Javelina Identifying Features Javelina (Tayassu tajacu) also known as collared peccary, are medium-sized animals that look similar to a wild boar. They have mainly short coarse salt...
puppy (thing) by Zerotime - Everything2.com
puppy (thing) by Zerotime Fluke's eighth (tenth if you include the two best-ofs) album, and first official album release since 1997's Risotto. Released on August 11, 2003, possibly to have the album slip in just under the six-year mark. It's also their first release since Mike Tournier split from the group in 2002. For this album, Fluke consisted of Jon Fugler and Mike Bryant, with some help from Ron Aslan (drum programming), Andy Gray (production), Neil Davenport (guitar), and Margo Buchan...
porpoise etymology
I wonder if there is any connection (even just in Kubrick or others doing wordplay, NOT necessarily -- or at all -- because of an etymological connection, which I doubt) . But if the porpoise is a pig, the word "mereswyn" does remind me an awful lot of the word "Martian" which of course is about Mars, not the sea. But still . . . worth a query or two. -zas 7 entries found Related entries & more Advertisement Related entries & more Related entries & more Related entries & more Relate...
todd | Origin and meaning of the name todd by Online Etymology Dictionary
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Degu (thing) by RML - Everything2.com
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Degu (thing) See all of Degu, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by RML Tue Oct 03 2000 at 6:36:01 A small rodent often kept as a pet, latin name Octodon degus. They somewhat resemble a large brown gerbil. They originate in Chile, from the lowland areas. They are social, and it's a good idea to keep them in pairs or larger groups or they may get depressed. Degu are not aggressive, but may bite if threatened (like most other sma...
Deadly Barks: Acousmaticity and Post-Animality in Lucrecia Martel's La ciénaga - Film-Philosophy
Deadly Barks: Acousmaticity and Post-Animality in Lucrecia Martel's La ciénaga Abstract Acousmatic sound is often defined as a sound whose source is unseen, that is, in terms of a separation between the senses of hearing and seeing. Discussions about the acousmatic have generally focused on the ontological relation between the sonic effect and the visually unavailable source that produces it. This article examines the function of acousmatic so...
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significance of milk
Additional idea added 2 July 2021 -zasMilky plants, such as lettuces, dandelions, sow-thistles, are its favourite dish. In a neighbouring village one was kept till by tradition it was supposed to be an hundred years old. An instance of vast longevity in such a poor reptile! dateNov 12, 2019ZAS Note from 12 Nov 2019 Storytelling and Science -Milk - Significance of Milk may be generally about the general intelligence and adaptability of mammals, all of whom make milk. Also, MLK - Martin Lu...
Bird as bard
Could birds in English literature be a reference to poets and playwrights? More ancient languages would suggest a different but not opposite meaning. Birds are often symbolic of the female psyche, and the virtual function of females in the storyworld as potential powerful diplomats. Birds can carry and deliver informed messages (sometimes literally on paper) without causing a direct threat. (Hitchcock's The Birds being one exception) or angelic spy -- a neither necessarily friendly nor nece...
