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The castle's name literally means "demon castle" (ki is another reading for the character for oni); according to a traditional fable, a demon named Onra or Ura once ruled Kibi Province from the castle. The castle is the basis of the myth that is associated with the folklore hero, Momotarō.
The Iwai ruins are located at the foot of the mountain on the right bank of the Gamo River, in front of the entrance of the former Iwai Elementary School. The above ground remains include a huge tuff stone foundation block, which has been known since antiquity and which locals call the "oni bowl" (demon bowl). This is the central base of a ...
Baʽal Zephon (Hebrew: בעל צפון , romanized: Baʿal Ṣəp̄on, lit. 'Lord of Ṣafon'; Akkadian: Bēl Ḫazi (d IM ḪUR.SAG); Ugaritic: baʿlu ṣapāni; Hurrian: Tešub Ḫalbağe; [1] Egyptian: bꜥr ḏꜣpwnꜣ [2]), also transliterated as Baal-zephon, was an epithet of the Canaanite storm god Baʿal (lit.
Agaliarept is featured in Wayne Barlowe's novel God's Demon, appearing as a bizarre gestalt entity serving as the court conjuror to Beelzebub. The Action-Online-RPG The Ruins of the Lost Kingdom Online also has a Boss named Agaliarept (Japanese Katakana:"アガリアレプト") with 2 additional variations with added prefix "Demon-Lord [魔王 ...
El Castillo (Spanish pronunciation: [el kas'tiʎo], 'the Castle'), also known as the Temple of Kukulcan is a Mesoamerican step-pyramid that dominates the center of the Chichen Itza archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán.
Xibalba was a large palace and a number of individual structures or locations within Xibalba are described or mentioned in the Popol Vuh.Chief among these was the council place of the Lords, the five or six houses that served as the first tests of Xibalba, and the Xibalban ballcourt. [9]
'Demon Territory' [2]) was an ancient ethnonym for a northern people that fought against the Shang dynasty (1600–1046 BCE). Chinese historical tradition used various names, at different periods, for northern tribes such as Guifang, Rong , Di , [ 3 ] Xunyu , Xianyun , or Xiongnu peoples.
View of the Serapeum remains in Alexandria Map of ancient Alexandria, with the Serapeum located in the south (marked #7) Victory Pillar, erected by emperor Diocletian in 297 AD, at the Serapeum The Serapeum of Alexandria in the Ptolemaic Kingdom was an ancient Greek temple built by Ptolemy III Euergetes (reigned 246–222 BC) and dedicated to ...