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An icon depicting the Theotokos with the apostles filled with the Holy Spirit, indicated by "cloven tongues like as of fire" above their heads People speaking in tongues and in Portuguese during a Christian event in Brazil
After a two-year hiatus during which he studied guitar, Cook returned to writing screenplays and narrative fiction. In summer 2011, he released the novellas Storm and Cloven Tongues of Fire, as well as the story collection Tiger Ridge – Three Stories and the bilingual (French-English) story "The Pickpocket". All those publications are e-books.
Fifty days after the Resurrection, on the existing Jewish feast of Shavuot, while the disciples and many other followers of Jesus were gathered together to pray, the Holy Spirit descended upon them in the form of "cloven tongues of fire", with the sound of a rushing mighty wind, and they began to speak in languages that they did not know.
The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod. ... "there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Coltrin experienced "cloven tongues [glossolalia] as of fire" along with fellow participants "as the Spirit gave them utterance ... The angels of God rested upon the Temple and we heard their voices singing heavenly music." [4]
The journey itself, though, is wildly original, featuring murderous cloven-hoofed barkeepers, a trolley ride through irradiated lands, a terrifying stay in a Prison-School for Boys, and the most ...
There is a "mighty rushing wind" (wind is a common symbol for the Holy Spirit) [30] [31] and "tongues as of fire" appear. [32] The gathered disciples were "filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance". [33]
Some guessed the obscure finding might be the remains of an ox-tongue mushroom, polished coral, or something eaten by a shark. Experts identify human tongue look-a-like sea creature as sea squirt ...