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a shield before the shining god. mountains and oceans I know should burn, if it fell from in front. Arvak and Alsvith up shall drag Weary the weight of the sun; But an iron cool have the kindly gods Of yore set under their yokes. In front of the sun does Svalinn stand, The shield for the shining god; Mountains and sea would be set in flames
The Covenant is a fictional military alliance of various alien species and serves as one of the primary antagonists in the Halo science fiction series. The Covenant are composed of a variety of diverse species, united under the religious worship of the enigmatic Forerunners and their belief that Forerunner ringworlds known as Halos will provide a path to salvation.
Ancient shield illustration from Nordisk familjebok. In ancient Rome, the ancilia (Latin, singular ancile) were twelve sacred shields kept in the Temple of Mars.According to legend, one divine shield fell from heaven during the reign of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome.
The creators of Halo the Series' Covenant language, Sangheili, shed some light on how they crafted alien speech from scratch, then offer a crash course on how to speak it. Stream new episodes of ...
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The aegis on the Lemnian Athena of Phidias, represented by a cast at the Pushkin Museum. The aegis (/ ˈ iː dʒ ɪ s / EE-jis; [1] Ancient Greek: αἰγίς aigís), as stated in the Iliad, is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes featuring the head of a Gorgon.
Originally regarded as a god of war in Hinduism, he is viewed as either a protective deva or as a Bodhisattva in Chinese Buddhism. His Buddhist iconography has been syncretized with Chinese elements to a large extent, so he is commonly depicted as wearing traditionary Chinese military armor and wielding a Chinese sword. [ 26 ]