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La Sylphide Bourbon, A.M. Bininger & Co. Bourbon advertising label in the shape of a glass showing a man pursuing three sylphs. The Swiss German physician and alchemist Paracelsus first coined the term sylph in the 16th century to describe an air spirit in his overarching scheme of elemental spirits associated with the four Classical elements.
Giants series One of three stable transuranic elements predicted by the new science of nucleonics in James P. Hogan's Giants series. Not naturally occurring outside of neutron stars, but trace amounts are created at the detonation of nucleonic weapons. Bureaucratium Scientific in-joke: Similar to Administratium and variation of the joke.
The Giants are depicted in a variety of ways. Some Giants are fully human in form, while others are a combination of human and animal forms. Some are snake-legged, some have wings, one has bird claws, one is lion-headed, and another is bull-headed. Some Giants wear helmets, carry shields and fight with swords.
A Book of Giants; Brobdingnag, fictional land of giants from Jonathan Swift's, Gulliver's Travels; Ent; Gargantua and Pantagruel. Hurtaly, fictional giant from François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel; The Selfish Giant, a short story by Oscar Wilde; Nix Nought Nothing; Veli Jože; Young Ronald
This exception seemed to work in reverse when it came to immortals, though, for if an elemental were to wed an immortal being, the immortal would gain the mortality of the elemental. One of the conditions of joining the Rosicrucians however, was a vow of chastity in hopes of marrying an elemental. [12]
The Giants fought Zeus and the other Olympian gods in the Gigantomachy, their epic battle for control of the cosmos. [5] A Giant named Enceladus, fighting Athena , is attested in art as early as an Attic black-figure pot dating from the second quarter of the sixth century BC (Louvre E732). [ 6 ]
In ancient Greek medicine, each of the four humours became associated with an element. Blood was the humor identified with air, since both were hot and wet. Other things associated with air and blood in ancient and medieval medicine included the season of spring, since it increased the qualities of heat and moisture; the sanguine temperament (of a person dominated by the blood humour ...
Giantess Anna Haining Bates (née Swan) with her parents.. Giantesses are imaginary, gigantic women. They are widely believed to be mythological by the humans of modern-day, since the term "giantess" is so generic, it seems possible to describe female giants not native to Earth which fall under the very forgiving criteria as giantesses.