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- 151: What Is Hinduism
- ... symbolize a different aspect of the Supreme Being. A great story behind the justification of several heads on an image is best explained in a popular story: In Classical Hindu mythology, Brahma, the Creator, was born in a lotus that emerged from the milky cosmic ocean. He became eager to find the source of his origin. He searched in all four ...
- 152: Heaven's Gate Cult
- ... Works Cited Hedges, Stephen J. "www.masssuicide.com." U.S. News &World Report. Apr 7 1997.26-30. PsychoInfo Available http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/psyc. Kurtz, Paul. "UFO Mythology: The Escape to Oblivion." The Skeptical Inquirer. Jul/Aug 1997.12-14. PsychoInfo Available http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/psyc. Marty, Martin E. "Playing with fire." The Christian Century ...
- 153: Time's Oldest Debate
- ... is belief that The Bible is the true word of God. If mankind had no belief in The Bible's account of creation, the Book would remain a work of mythology. The Bible requires no ordinary belief, however, but a gigantic leap of faith because there is absolutely no evidence God created mankind. The only evidence of creation is in the ...
- 154: Kadelphianism
- ... affect a student until he/she makes the decision to attend Texas Christian University. Upon making this decision, each student will immediately begin his transition into the Kadelphian way. The mythology behind Kadelphianism is quite simple; it is this simplicity and basic severity of its ideals that makes the religion so successful. From it's earliest origination in the nineteenth century ...
- 155: Enochian Scripture
- ... to have had access to many sources now lost, and events which are only hinted at in the "Book of Genesis" or the alleged "Book of Enoch", or disguised as mythology in other sources, are explored in great detail. Alhazred may have used magical techniques to clarify the past, but he also shared with 5th. century B.C. Greek writers such ...
- 156: Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death
- ... life from us as though it were some street murder with malicious intent. But in reality, we know that death is not the chaotic grim reaper of fairy tales and mythology. Rather than being a cruel and unfair prankster of evil, death is an unavoidable and natural part of life itself. The first line tells us exactly what we’re reading ...
- 157: Poe's Poetic Imagery in "The Raven"
- ... a mountainous region of Palestine east of the Jordan River. "Aidenn," from verse sixteen is an Arabic word for paradise. In verse seventeen, "Plutonian," refers to Pluto, which in Greek Mythology is god of the dead and ruler of the underworld. Poe's use of rhyme and alliteration, color and sound creates a powerful image when depicted in verse three where ...
- 158: Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
- ... as Lanyer, Milton uses pathetic fallacy. Human feelings reflect on nature. He, again like Lanyer switches from past to present and changes the imaginery. He uses a lot of Greek mythology.
- 159: “Fanthorpe’s Poetry Stimulates The Reader To See People And Things In A New Light”
- ... together the life of the canal in all its stages and presents us with images of the canal in the past and present. Sisyphus is a poem based on Greek mythology. The story is of a King Corinthian who was a famous trickster. He catches and binds death (Thanatos) in the underworld he was condemned to roll a large stone up ...
- 160: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
- ... those who believe, they are symbols of bad luck, death, sorcery, witchcraft, and the spirits of the dead. Appropriately, the narrator calls his cat, Pluto, who in Greek and Roman mythology was the god of the dead and the ruler of the underworld (symbolism). As in other Poe stories ( "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Gold ...
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