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The Gods Are Athirst (French: Les dieux ont soif, also translated as The Gods Are Thirsty or The Gods Will Have Blood) is a 1912 novel by Anatole France. It is set in Paris in 1793–1794, closely tied to specific events of the French Revolution .
Abelard's bones were moved to the Oratory of the Paraclete after his death, and after Héloïse's death in 1163/64 her bones were placed alongside his. The bones of the pair were moved more than once afterwards, but they were preserved even through the vicissitudes of the French Revolution , and now are presumed to lie in the well-known tomb in ...
Chrysostom: "Life having come to us, the empire of death is dissolved; a light having shone upon us, there is darkness no longer: but there remaineth ever a life which death, a light which darkness cannot overcome. Whence he continues, And the light shineth in darkness: by darkness meaning death and error, for sensible light does not shine in ...
In Sophocles' Antigone (c. 441 BC), an ode to Dionysus begins by addressing Dionysus as the "God of many names" (πολυώνυμε), who rules over the glens of Demeter's Eleusis, and ends by identifying him with "Iacchus the Giver", who leads "the chorus of the stars whose breath is fire" and whose "attendant Thyiads" dance in "night-long ...
Kek is the deification of the concept of primordial darkness [1] in the ancient Egyptian Ogdoad cosmogony of Hermopolis.. The Ogdoad consisted of four pairs of deities, four male gods paired with their female counterparts.
The beasts drive him back despairing into the darkness of error, a "lower place" (basso loco) [14] where the sun is silent (l sol tace). [15] However, Dante is rescued by a figure who announces that he was born sub Iulio [ 16 ] (i.e., in the time of Julius Caesar ) and lived under Augustus : it is the shade of the Roman poet Virgil , author of ...
[1] [2] [3] Some reviews asserted that the good and evil creatures described in the prologue were Ben and Justin, preparing for a final battle. [1] [3] Still, many reviews were reluctant to state who of the main characters was good and who was evil, [1] [3] aware that it might take some time until this question was answered for sure. [3]
Genesis 1:4 is the fourth verse of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis.It is the response to God's command in verse 3, "Let there be light."It is part of the Genesis creation narrative within the Torah portion Bereshit.