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Rugila or Ruga (also Ruas; died second half of the 430s AD), [1] was a ruler who was a major factor in the Huns' early victories over the Roman Empire.He served as an important forerunner with his brother Octar, with whom he initially ruled in dual kingship, possibly a geographical division where Rugila ruled over Eastern Huns while Octar over Western Huns, [2] during the 5th century AD.
The siege of Mecca in September–November 683 was one of the early battles of the Second Fitna.The city of Mecca was a sanctuary for Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, who was among the most prominent challengers to the dynastic succession to the Caliphate by the Umayyad Yazid I.
He is the ruler of the land of the dead, Rotaimo. Contrary to Sami practice, he travelled on horseback. The horse is among the Sami, a feared and detested animal, probably because it was the preferred form of transportation of the Norsemen. People who did not live their lives according to the natural orders came to Rotaimo, deep underground.
This is a list of historically verifiable, legendary and fictitious rulers of Frisia, whether they were called chieftains, counts, dukes or kings. The earliest names of Frisian rulers are documented by the chronicles of the Merovingian ( Frankish ) kings, with whom they were contemporaries.
The land of the dead also contains the forces of life, tama. [ 2 ] The Michiae no matsuri ( 道饗祭 ) norito is an ancient Shinto prayer asking the gods to prevent the evil beings from Ne-no-kuni-Soko-no-kuni ( 根國底國 ) to do any harm.
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s a new contender for the spot of public enemy number one, and his name is Adar.
A supreme being in the universe it created, Kara-han is the ruler of the three realms of air, water and land, seated on the seventeenth level of the universe, from which it determines the fate of its creation. After creating the universe it planted the nine-boughed tree of life, from the branches of which came the ancestors of humans.
"Queen of the Great Earth") [1] [2] [a] was the goddess of Kur, the land of the dead or underworld in Sumerian mythology. In later myths, she was said to rule Irkalla alongside her husband Nergal . Sometimes her name is given as Irkalla , similar to the way the name Hades was used in Greek mythology for both the underworld and its ruler, and ...