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Ame-no-Nuboko (天沼矛 or 天之瓊矛 or 天瓊戈, "heavenly jeweled spear"), also known simply as the Tenkei (天瓊, "heavenly spear"), is the name given to the spear in Shinto used to raise the primordial land-mass, Onogoro-shima, from the sea. It is often represented as a naginata. [1]
Fresco by Fra Angelico, Dominican monastery at San Marco, Florence, showing the lance piercing the side of Jesus on the cross (c. 1440). The Holy Lance, also known as the Spear of Longinus (named after Saint Longinus), the Spear of Destiny, or the Holy Spear, is alleged to be the lance that pierced the side of Jesus as he hung on the cross during his crucifixion.
A scythe (handle down), emblematic of Ceres as goddess of the harvest Pallas ⚴ U+26B4 A spear, emblematic of Athena Juno ⚵ U+26B5 A scepter, emblematic of Juno as queen of the gods, topped with a star Vesta ⚶ U+26B6 The fire-altar of Vesta's temple: Astraea [34] %, ⯙ U+0025, U+2BD9 The % sign (shift-5 on the keyboard for asteroid 5) [36 ...
Ama-no-Saka-hoko (Heavenly Upside Down Spear) is an antique and mysterious spear, staked by Ninigi-no-Mikoto at the summit of Takachiho-no-mine, where he and his divine followers first landed, according to the legend of Tenson kōrin. Nihongo, is one of three legendary Japanese spears created by the famed swordsmith Masazane Fujiwara. A famous ...
Trident of Poseidon. A trident (/ ˈ t r aɪ d ɛ n t /), (/ ˈ t r aɪ d ɪ n t /) is a three-pronged spear.It is used for spear fishing and historically as a polearm.As compared to an ordinary spear, the three tines increase the chance that a fish will be struck and decrease the chance that a fish will be able to dislodge itself if struck badly.
The liturgical spear, on the Table of Oblation. The Spear ( Greek : λόγχη , romanized : lónchē ; Church Slavonic : Копіе́ , romanized: Kopìé ) or Lance is a liturgical implement used during the Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches .
Greek school of Pythagoreanism The tetractys is an equidistant and equiangular arrangement of ten points inside a triangle , akin to the fourth triangle number . It was developed by Pythagoras , and collectively signifies cosmic unity in the form of The Decad, as well as the musica universalis , or collective abstraction of the music generated ...
The meaning of basileus as "king" in Classical Greece is due to a shift in terminology during the Greek Dark Ages. In Mycenaean times, a * gʷasileus appears to be a lower-ranking official (in one instance a chief of a professional guild), while in Homer, anax is already an archaic title, most suited to legendary heroes and gods rather than for ...