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'flight, fright', [1] pronounced, Latin: Phobus) is the god and personification of fear and panic in Greek mythology. Phobos was the son of Ares and Aphrodite, and the brother of Deimos. He does not have a major role in mythology outside of being his father's attendant. [2]
The personification of a nation as a woman was widespread in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. [1] The earliest image of Iceland personified as a woman seems to have appeared first in association with the poem Ofsjónir við jarðarför Lovísu drottningar 1752 ('Visions at the funeral of Queen Louise, 1752') by Eggert Ólafsson (1752), but this image does not survive.
The post-revolutionary Marianne in France, official since 1792, is something of a mixture of styles, sometimes formal and classical, at others a woman of the streets of Paris personified. [65] The Dutch Maiden is one of the earliest of these figures, and was mainly visual from the start, her efforts to repulse unwelcome Spanish advances shown ...
Woman Running in the Mountains (山を走る女, Yama o hashiru onna) is a 1980 novel by Yūko Tsushima, published by Kodansha. [1] In 1991, an English translation by Geraldine Harcourt was published by Pantheon Books. [2] In 2022, Harcourt's English translation was reissued by New York Review Books as a classic with an introduction by Lauren ...
Personification of time Mi'kmaq: Niskam: The sun; architect Miwok: Coyote: Trickster: Narragansett: Cautantowwit: Creator Navajo: Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé: Creation deity, changing woman Bikʼeh Hózhǫ́: Personification of speech Haashchʼéé Oołtʼohí: Deity of the hunt Haashchʼééłtiʼí: The Talking god, god of the dawn and the east ...
A woman shares a disastrous blowout she received that she was too scared to complain about to her hairdresser.. Chicago comedian Maggie Hughes DePalo posted her ‘leaf blower’ blowout on TikTok ...
Wurugag and Waramurungundi, first man and woman of Kunwinjku legend; Yawkyawk, Aboriginal shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage (or depending on the tradition, both) to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod.
In a horror-movie-worthy moment, one woman screamed at the top of her lungs after she turned around during her proposal and saw all of her friends and family. ... it quite honestly scared me! It ...