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The wolf as a mythological creature is greatly linked to Balkan and Serbian mythology and cults. [34] It has an important part in Serbian mythology. [35] In the Slavic, old Serbian religion and mythology, the wolf was used as a totem. [36] [full citation needed] In the Serbian epic poetry, the wolf is a symbol of fearlessness. [37]
Benjamin (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִיןBīnyāmīn; "Son of (the) right") [ 2 ] was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (i.e., Jacob's thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. Unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin ...
Tribe of Benjamin. According to the Torah, the Tribe of Benjamin (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִן, romanized:Bīnyāmīn) was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The tribe was descended from Benjamin, the youngest son of the patriarch Jacob (later given the name Israel) and his wife Rachel. [ 1 ] In the Samaritan Pentateuch the name appears as ...
151 cm × 213 cm (59 in × 84 in) Location. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. The Death of General Wolfe is a 1770 painting by Anglo-American artist Benjamin West, commemorating the 1759 Battle of Quebec, where General James Wolfe died at the moment of victory. The painting, containing vivid suggestions of martyrdom, broke a standard rule of ...
Elaborating on the connection between wolves and figures of great power, he writes: "This is why Geri and Freki, the wolves at Woden's side, also glowered on the throne of the Anglo-Saxon kings. Wolf-warriors, like Geri and Freki, were not mere animals but mythical beings: as Woden's followers they bodied forth his might, and so did wolf-warriors."
Auratic perception, [ 2 ] aestheticization of politics, dialectical image, [ 3 ] the flâneur. Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (/ ˈbɛnjəmɪn / BEN-yə-min; German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn] ⓘ; [ 7 ] 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940 [ 8 ]) was a German-Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist.
Benjamin West PRA (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was a British-American artist who painted famous historical scenes such as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe, the Treaty of Paris, and Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky. Entirely self-taught, West soon gained valuable patronage and toured Europe, eventually ...
Über den Begriff der Geschichte (2010 edition, Suhrkamp) " Theses on the Philosophy of History " or " On the Concept of History " (German: Über den Begriff der Geschichte) is an essay written in early 1940 by German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin. It is one of Benjamin's best-known, and most controversial works.