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Twice he sent hundreds of people under the direction of Xu Fu to find the legendary elixir of life, but failed. He allegedly died of mercury poisoning after he had eaten too many mercury pills, prescribed by his court doctors to make him immortal. [17] Ravana, Ravana is a mythological King in Hindu mythology. Rawana was an ambitious brahmin who ...
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The Nunnehi (Cherokee: ᏅᏁᎯ (Nvnehi)) are a race of immortal spirit people in Cherokee mythology.In the Cherokee language, Nunnehi literally means "The People Who Live Anywhere", but it is often translated into English as "The People Who Live Forever", or simply "The Immortals".
Immortals usually live in clean and pure places such as high mountains; they do not eat cereals; they appear only to people who perform the proper religious practices or have the right kind of destiny. Some immortals also live in grottoes underneath the sacred mountains.
The term is a combination of chiram, or 'permanent', and jīvi, or 'lived'.It is similar to amaratva, which refers to true immortality.At the end of the last manvantara (age of Manu), an asura named Hayagriva attempted to become immortal by swallowing the sacred pages of the Vedas, as they escaped from the mouth of Brahma.
Works with lone immortals can be further subdivided into those where the immortality is a secret and those where it is not. [13] Conversely, the 1990 novella Outnumbering the Dead by Frederik Pohl features a lone mortal in a world where everyone else is immortal, [9] [10] [19] as does the 2009 film Mr. Nobody. [11] [20]
The Eight Immortals (Chinese: 八仙) are a group of legendary xian (immortals) in Chinese mythology. Each immortal's power can be transferred to a vessel (法器) that can bestow life or destroy evil. Together, these eight vessels are called the "Covert Eight Immortals" (暗八仙).
Balius (/ ˈ b eɪ l i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Βάλιος, Balios, possibly "dappled") and Xanthus (/ ˈ z æ n θ ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ξάνθος, Xanthos, "blonde") were, according to Greek mythology, two immortal horses, the offspring of the harpy Podarge and the West wind, Zephyrus.