| 单词 | mythical being |
| 例句 | A familiar local habitation gave reality to all the mythical beings. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There you will learn how giants, two-headed serpents and other mythical beings shaped the land you see. On a trip to Whistler, connect with Squamish and Líl̓wat culture 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z In the new book, netsuke represent demon masks, mythical beings riding fish, and exorcists. Antiques: Vintage Thomas Molesworth Furniture Heads to Auction 2013-09-05T20:00:56Z Unlike Larkin, I'm not against mythical beings in poetry; it depends how you use 'em. Judging the Forward prizes for poetry: my verdict 2013-07-08T13:00:01Z In one post, a cartoon coronavirus dances through the Uffizi and stops at Caravaggio’s painting of “Medusa,” the mythical being that turned those who dared gaze at her into stone. As Museums Get on TikTok, the Uffizi Is an Unlikely Class Clown 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Carved reliefs from ancient Mesopotamia, mythical beings from Periclean Athens and Hellenistic Greece and heroic figures from Imperial Rome now usefully resound in the work of one of today's most significant artists. Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z He claims the encounter with the possibly entirely mythical being terrified him so much he thought he was “going to be killed.” Rob Lowe met Bigfoot, thought he was “going to be killed” 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Far from childish playthings, these mythical beings, or “cryptids,” bring our two dazed dreamers violently down to Earth. ‘Cryptozoo’ Review: Wild Things 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Then she was simply absent, reduced to a kind of shimmering nostalgic image, an essentially static, mythical being: always ‘improving,’ yet always staying the same and never actually getting anywhere.” Books of The Times: Twin Alone, Disconnected but Not Lost 2011-01-09T22:53:24Z In this view, getting actors of color to play mythical beings who used to be portrayed as white is one more reminder that whiteness, in the real world, is no longer the unexamined cultural default. Guess Who’s Coming to Mordor 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z And it captures a fundamental contradiction in showing how unsettling the heroes find the situation, and how attitudes towards them change as soon as they demonstrate that they are normal men rather than mythical beings. Choose July's Reading group book 2013-06-26T13:35:35Z Rise of the Guardians featuring Santa Claus with the Easter Bunny, Jack Frost and other mythical beings battling an evil spirit. Rise of the Guardians and other all-star supergroups 2012-11-29T20:00:01Z Suddenly we were in a different world, one of translucent splendor, of shimmering visions of queens and royal courts and mythical beings, of woman as unattainable fantasy and poetic dream. Dance Review: The Bolshoi Performs Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’ in London 2013-08-14T21:10:21Z The premise is that Santa Claus and a bunch of other ecumenically mythical beings — principally the Easter Bunny, the Sandman and the Tooth Fairy — are the guardians of the magical state of childhood. Movie Review: In ‘Rise of the Guardians,’ Childhood Naïveté Wins 2012-11-20T22:29:12Z Based on William Joyce's "Guardians of Childhood" books, "Rise of the Guardians" gathers Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and other mythical beings as a team of heroes battling an evil overlord. 'Twilight,' Bond, 'Lincoln' lead record weekend 2012-11-25T20:40:39Z We get to witness these men fashionably in their work element: cutting grass at golden hour, scaling a palm tree like a mythical being that defies gravity. What would the visual identity of L.A. be without landscape artists? 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z For a younger generation, he is a mythical being, reduced to grainy videos that provide evidence of his brilliance as a goal scorer, creator and innovator. Perspective | What Pelé, soccer’s one-name wonder, meant to the beautiful game 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s possible that, deep in the waters, more mythical beings wait for their stories to be told. An Excavation in the Sea Depths Recovers Hercules From the Afterlife 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z For one depiction of a mythical being, the artist created a white figure by scraping off the brown sandstone. Missouri cave with ancient Native American drawings sold 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Your patrons include not only humans, but also vampires, elves, werewolves, mermaids, and other mythical beings. You should play this extremely chill game about serving coffee to vampires and elves 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z She reportedly would leave candy and cookies for the mythical being. Sasquatch watch: Bigfoot 'sightings' over the years 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The otherworldly nature of the therianthropes also raises the possibility that they are mythical beings, or manifestations of “animal spirit helpers” that are common in shamanic beliefs, according to the study. Mythical Beings May Be Earliest Imaginative Cave Art by Humans 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Some are drawn from the plant or animal worlds, or refer to mythical beings with which the individual may identify. Beyond 'he' and 'she': The rise of non-binary pronouns - BBC News 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z The King of Tigre has turned out to be a living entity and not a mythical being, as we had begun to consider him. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z Do we have to swing into existence fabled and mythical beings and worlds before we can induce a human being to be as natural as a plant and as faithful as a dog? Is Life Worth Living Without Immortality? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society, Chicago 2012-04-18T02:00:15.717Z After millenniums in which mythical beings, allegories and grand philosophical ideas were staples of Western art, the past century saw the triumph of the mundane. | New Jersey: ?Rachel Perry Welty: 24/7? in New Brunswick ? Review 2012-02-05T00:51:48Z Stories of mythical beings who, tho repeatedly killed, persist in coming to life again, are common among many Indian tribes. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z When they show up," she told me, "they're like mythical beings. Blog: Occupy Wall Street & The Wealth Debate 2011-10-27T12:21:08Z Concerning the primal mythical beings of the great hunter and warrior tribes of America, Algonkins, Hurons and Iroquois, something has already been said in the chapter on "Myths of the Origin of Things". Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z "You have been invisible for so long, while our friend Batti has been unwearied in his wondrous tales of you, that I began to regard you as a mythical being 'veiled in lovely legend.'" A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z The imagination of the Greeks peopled the woods and waters with all sorts of mythical beings, among which one of the most delightful was the faun. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z In her endeavour to keep the two mythical beings quite distinct, she began to sing the "other one's" praises much too emphatically. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Heimdall is a god, a mythical being, all made up and everything, so it's a bit odd to get hung up on what he should look like. I feel sorry for Gordon. And I'm not alone 2010-05-01T23:35:00Z Some information may also be gleaned from the South African Folk-lore Journal, 1879-80, gods, if gods such mythical beings may be called. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z These were mostly mythical beings, who were supposed to perform especial functions in the creation and control of the universe. History of Human Society The Nile and the Ganges did not become sacred by having a mythical being added to them as their spirit; they were themselves sacred beings. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems I have been most happy in my researches into the history of this founder of the Inca dynasty, whom many consider a mere mythical being. The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries The Sun’s Sister is a mythical being who is often mentioned in the popular poetry of the South-Slavonians. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore A mythical being, supposed by the ancient Greeks to inhabit lonely woods. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 The naked figures of these mythical beings are first completely and accurately drawn and then the clothing is put on. The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 The winged bulls and lions that guarded the approaches to temples and palaces are illustrations of this old notion, and it is to this class of mythical beings that Lakhmu belongs. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria It was Terer, a spirit or mythical being who had come to fetch the soul of the departed and to bear it far away to its place of rest in the island beyond the sea. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia Thus were these mythical beings left in undisturbed possession of many fertile plots of ground, and here they were believed to dance merrily through many a summer night. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales The sea is his home, as he expresses it, and he believes me to be some mythical being out of it. Key Out of Time Almost every nation will be found to have had a mythical being, whose strength or weakness, virtues or defects, more or less nearly describe the Sun's career through the seasons. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Upon the whole, Snorre has striven to accommodate his sketch to the Eddas, while he has had to clothe mythical beings with the characteristics of human kings. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda Another mythical being in which the Warramunga believe is the pau-wa, a fabulous animal, half human and somewhat resembling a dog. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia There is then wide scope for the rude imagination to wander at will through the unknown universe, and to people it with every description of mythical beings and superstitious objects. The Poetry of Wales The Fians are regarded as merely legendary—perhaps altogether mythical beings; and the Fairies as absolutely unreal. Fians, Fairies and Picts Directors were to us junior clerks, remote personalities, mythical beings dwelling on Olympian heights. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland On the pillars were sculptured knights, men climbing trees, women, gods, and mythical beings. The Negro This mythical being was really the God of northern Buddhism in the Middle Ages, and is the popular sympathizer of all Mongolian races to the present day. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 That a statue should be vivified and endowed with speech and reason is a bold conception, and it requires no ordinary artist to depict the emotion of such a mythical being. Mary Anderson He himself was no phantom or mythical being, but a real, earnest man who, according to his light, tried to serve his generation. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries It can hardly be that these mysterious mythical beings, who exercise an incomprehensible yet powerful influence over human destiny, could be described with any propriety in terms so revolting. Elizabethan Demonology The rain, they said, was produced by the rapid whirling of the earth by a stout mythical being called Yek. Travels in Alaska Another mythical being who is worshipped as God in China and Japan, is Amitabba, a Dhyana or celestial Buddha, who in long kalpas of Time has acquired merit enough for the whole world. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Our desire, in engaging in this argument, is to turn the thought and love of the world from a mythical being, to humanity, which is both real and present. The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? "You may laugh," said I, "but to have a mythical being out of Olympiodorus quartered on you for life is no jesting matter." The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Thus the Navajoes tell of a certain mythical being called “the Maiden that becomes a Bear,” who learned the art of turning herself into a bear from the prairie wolf. The Golden Bough To people who knew the tax-gatherer as little more than a mythical being, he suddenly appeared like a malevolent creature who swept off ruthlessly the tenth of their produce. The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South But the popular fancy, intolerant of such a vacuum, in other words, unable to conceive anything as inanimate, immediately creates a fresh mythical being, with which it peoples the vacant object. The Golden Bough |
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