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It dwells in mountainous caves and corries (valleys) [2] [3] [9] and is equipped with a venomous sting. If a person is stung by the beithir then they must head for the nearest body of water such as a river or loch. If they can reach it before the beithir does then they are cured, but if the monster reaches it first then the victim is doomed.
Satisfactory is a 2024 factory simulation game by Coffee Stain Studios for Windows. The player (a "Pioneer") is dropped onto an alien planet with a handful of tools and must exploit the planet's natural resources to construct increasingly complex factories.
Carbuncle – one of its many descriptions is a luminescent small dog [3] Cerberus – multi-headed dog, guards the gates of the Underworld, son/brother of Orthrus (Greek, Roman) Chupacabra (Latin American) – Alleged creature reputed to attack and drink the blood of livestock, occasionally described with bat-like features.
3.2 Iron Age. 3.3 Late Antiquity. 4 Fictional mythologies. 5 See also. Toggle the table of contents. ... List of creation myths; List of legendary creatures by type;
In myth, Kronos uses an adamantine sickle to castrate his father Uranus; in Prometheus Bound, Prometheus is bound to rocks "in adamantine bonds infrangible"; [2] in Virgil's Aeneid, columns of solid adamantine protect the gates of Tartarus; in Paradise Lost, adamant and adamantine are mentioned eight times to describe the gates of hell, Satan's ...
In Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, a "hissing" Typhon, his eyes flashing, "withstood all the gods", but "the unsleeping bolt of Zeus" struck him, and "he was burnt to ashes and his strength blasted from him by the lightning bolt. And now, a helpless and a sprawling bulk, he lies hard by the narrows of the sea, pressed down beneath the roots of ...
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society. For scholars, this is very different from the vernacular usage of the term "myth" that refers to a belief that is not true.
Lightning bolt: Carnation: Zeus Zeus, wishing to acquire a sacred plant like his wife Hera had her own lily, threw a lightning bolt on the earth, and thus the red carnation came to be, which in Greek is diosanthos, "flower of Zeus". [46] Midas' daughter: Gold: Midas Midas's unnamed daughter was supposedly turned accidentally into gold by her ...