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2. Icarus - Wikipedia

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   Icarus ignored Daedalus's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned. The myth gave rise to the idiom, "fly too close to the sun." In some versions of the tale, Daedalus and Icarus escape by ship. [1] [4]

3. Daedalus - Wikipedia

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   In Greek mythology, Daedalus (UK: / ˈ d iː d ə l ə s /, US: / ˈ d ɛ d ə l ə s /; [1] Greek: Δαίδαλος; Latin: Daedalus; Etruscan: Taitale) was a skillful architect and craftsman, seen as a symbol of wisdom, knowledge and power.

4. Phaethon - Wikipedia

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   The lesser-known myth of Sirius the dog star god and the harvest goddess Opora share some elements with the myth of Phaethon. In that myth, Sirius visits the earth on some mission but then meets and falls in love with Opora. His unfulfilled love makes him burn hotter, which results in the humans suffering under the great heat he causes.

5. List of flying mythological creatures - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of flying mythological creatures. This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures. Adzehate creatures; Angel; Arkan Sonney; Basilisk; Boobrie; Cockatrice; Djinn; Devil; Dragon; Elemental - a being of the alchemical works of Paracelsus; Erinyes; Fairies; Fenghuang; Fionnuala

6. The StoryTeller (TV series) - Wikipedia

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   The StoryTeller: Dragons which featured the stories "The Son of the Serpent" (based on Native American folktales of the Horned Serpent), "The Worm of Lambton", "Albina" (a gender-swapped retelling of the Russian story of Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin), and "Samurai's Sacrifice" (based around the alleged Japanese folk tale A Story of Oki Islands).

7. Noah's Island - Wikipedia

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   Noah's Island is a British animated television series for children made by the creators of The Animals of Farthing Wood and commissioned by the European Broadcasting Union. It was directed by Emile Bourget, Philippe LeClerc, Alan Simpson, and Frederic Trouillot, with the episodes written by Steve Walker. [1] Each of the 39 episodes ran for 28 ...

8. The Aeronauts (film) - Wikipedia

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   The Aeronauts is a 2019 biographical adventure film directed by Tom Harper and written by Jack Thorne, from a story co-written by Thorne and Harper.The film is based on the 2013 book Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes. [8]

9. Árvakr and Alsviðr - Wikipedia

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   The myth of the Sun pulled by horses is not exclusive to Norse or Germanic religion. Many other mythologies and religions contain a solar deity or carriage of the Sun pulled by horses. In Persian and Phrygian mythology, Mithras and Attis perform this task. In Greek mythology, Apollo performs this task, although it was previously performed by ...