Skip to main content . . . Greek Mythology Norse Mythology Ancient Egypt Ancient Rome Ancient Mesopotamia . All . . Home / News . . . . Updated 28 September, 2023 - 22:55 Nathan Falde England’s Iconic Sycamore Gap Tree Destroyed by Act of Vandalism Read Later Print In a thoughtless and ugly act of desecration, a person or persons cut down one of England’s most celebrated and historically significant trees. K...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Halls of the Norse Gods (place) See all of The Halls of the Norse Gods, no other writeups in this node. (place) by Hatshepsut Wed Jun 26 2002 at 18:54:53 In Norse mythos, there are three realms which are contained within the three roots of Yggdrasil, the giant tree ("The World Tree"). The tree acts to hold the three realms together and to hold them in place. Within the three realms are the Nine Worlds. All of the deities and...
Left, both: The literary and theater critic Richard Gilman at work; right, at home with his daughters, Claire, left, and Priscilla, author of a new memoir about her father. The bright, particular star of Priscilla Gilman’s very first memory was her father, the theater and literary critic Richard Gilman. It was a summer night in the early 1970s, and three-year-old Priscilla was jolted awake by terrifying claps of thunder. Cue Daddy."Framed by the window, the scene before us is like ...
The Pale Blue Eye is one of those movie titles that’s evocative yet teasingly vague — it makes the film sound like a Western based on a song by Lou Reed. Actually, the movie is based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, which uses an 1830s military setting and murder mystery to frame a kind of origin myth of Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point, which in the early 19th century is basically a fort in the woods overlooking the Hudson River, a cadet suffers a violent death. He is cut down from a noose hangin...
Sulfur as hellSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/sulfur.html Sulfur According to Christian legend, sulfur is associated with HELL and the Devil (Cooper, 1978), and is often referred to as brimstone. Up one level Back to document index ShadowSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/shadow.html ShadowWith light, the shadow is the Chinese yin and yang; shadows are often identified with a person...
September 10, 2022 (dream) See all of September 10, 2022, no other writeups in this node. It begins with the walnut orchard. The house and gardens are to the west, the road to the south. I know this house well in the waking world. It's the site of my first Thanksgiving, where I first started meeting Christine's family and friends. In the front garden is the olive tree where we were married. There's the studio apartment where I lived for several years until very recently. I have many...
Sycamore Tree Symbolism And Facts That Will Surprise YouHome » Tree SymbolismSycamore tree symbolism originates in Egypt and the Middle East. However, with the rise of Christianity in the western world and the tree’s introduction to Europe either by the Romans or the Crusaders, a rich set of meanings has arisen around the world. The primary symbolism surrounding the Sycamore relates to love, protection, and fertility. Free Numerology Reading Get your free Numerology Video Report. We will expl...
The Sycamore Tree is the 'symbol of life' ? Investigate that. -zas Jun 2022 a white leather sofa (poetry) See all of a white leather sofa, no other writeups in this node. (poetry) by lostcauser (2 hr) Rep: 5 ( +5 / -0 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Thu Jun 09 2022 at 17:42:45 he walks away sits down on the sofa the white leather sofa I never wanted to buy I go outside and I don’t slam the door I stand in the yard under the sycamore the symbol of life he was a senior and I was a sophomore...
The music of trees: the intergenerative tie between primary care and public healthclose- 2010 - u22Just a Girlu22: The Community-Centered Cult Television Heroine, 1995-2007BookmarkFull text linkFind related documentsAbstractFound in the most recent group of cult heroines on television, community-centered cult heroines share two key characteristics. The first is their youth and the related coming-of-age narratives that result. The second is their emphasis on communal heroic action that challen...
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (The Waiting) and Alexander Chee (How to Write An Autobiographical Novel) spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall event series by the graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly. The driving force behind November’s conversation was Gendry-Kim’s second English-language release, The Waiting, of which Chee has written: How can black and white drawings do this, you might ask. But maybe only black and white drawings can do this—Gendry-Kim offers us here a glimpse ...
See translation of Jeder Baum It means I’m German ‘every tree’. Interesting to me as a possible reference to or intertext with James Bond and the other jb inquiries of mine. -zas 6 Dec 2021
Home › Houseplants › Epiphytes Types Of Epiphytes – What Is An Epiphyte Plant And Adaptations Of Epiphytes Epiphytes By: Bonnie L. Grant, Certified Urban Agriculturist Image by Sean Murray Both tropical and rainforests feature an incredible array of plants. Those that dangle from trees, rocks, and vertical supports are called epiphytes. Tree epiphytes are called air plants because they have no firm grip in the earth. This fascinating collection...
Hyperborea was, in Greek mythology, the land located to the far north of the known world and was so remote it was considered even beyond the North Wind. There a legendary race known as the Hyperboreans lived and worshipped the sun god Apollo. Hyperborea was thought of as an earthly paradise of eternal youth and abundance, but so inaccessible was this far-off land to ordinary mortals, the Greeks believed that only semi-divine heroes like Hercules were capable of ever visiting there. Hyperborea...
Leyland Cypress (thing) See all of Leyland Cypress, no other writeups in this node. by ianah0 (4.2 y) CC Rep: 34 ( +35 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Fri May 03 2002 at 19:52:27 (thing) 1 C! by ianah0 (4.2 y) In 1888, the female flowers or cones of a Nootka Cypress were fertilized by pollen from a Monterey Cypress. The two parent species would never have met in the wild as their natural ranges are 1000 miles apart(the female from Alaska and the male from California). But the origina...
