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Kerényi portrays Orion as a giant born outside his mother. [6] He placed great stress on the variant in which Merope is the wife of Oenopion. He sees this as the remnant of a lost form of the myth in which Merope was Orion's mother (converted by later generations to his stepmother).
An imperial consort's tent (Chinese: 宮帳; gōngzhàng; translated from the Mongolian term for yurts: 斡兒垜; wòérkàng) determined her status; multiple women often lived in the same one. In the many tents that existed, the imperial consort of the first tent was considered to be the most prestigious woman.
Johann Christian Bach ('the English Bach') wrote an opera, Orion, or Diana Reveng'd, first presented at London's Haymarket Theatre in 1763. Orion, sung by a castrato, is in love with Candiope, the daughter of Oenopion, King of Arcadia but his arrogance has offended Diana. Diana's oracle forbids him to marry Candiope and foretells his glory and ...
The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain; The Sword in the Stone (1963 film) T. The Tale of Despereaux (film) The Tale of the Fox; Tales from Earthsea (film)
Ryūgū or Ryūgū-jō is the fabulous mythical residence of the Ryūjin (Dragon God) or Sea God, or the princess Otohime. [1] It is also equated with the "fish-scale palace" (iroko no goto tsukureru miya) which was the Sea God Watatsumi's palace mentioned in the Kojiki (8th century). [1]
Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd (audio ⓘ) (Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffydd; c. 1097 – 1136) was a 12th century Welsh rebel and Princess consort of Deheubarth.The daughter of Prince of Gwynedd Gruffudd ap Cynan and member of the House of Aberffraw, she married Gruffydd ap Rhys, the Prince of Deheubarth, and would lead a "patriotic revolt" with him during the Great Revolt of 1136 until her death at ...
St. Pancras railway station and Midland Hotel in London, opened in 1868. Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. ...
Ramon Palace, also known as Princess Oldenburg's Palace, is a red-brick neo-Gothic palace in Ramon, Russia. It was built in 1883–87 for Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg and her husband Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg .