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Khonshu is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.The character first appeared in Moon Knight #1 (November 1980), was created by Doug Moench and Bill Sienkiewicz, and is based on the Egyptian lunar god Khonsu.
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590): Unnamed dragon slain by Redcrosse knight (Book 1, Canto 11-12). Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1604): The dragons that draw Faustus's chariot. Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy, The Green Serpent (1698): A handsome king turned into a green dragon by enchantment.
The Knights of Pendragon was Marvel UK's third attempt at producing an American-format 'book length' comic series, following Dragon's Claws and Death's Head.Whereas those titles had been science fiction-based action-adventure series, Knights of Pendragon was a highly political and environmental comic, its themes borrowing heavily from British folklore and the growing New Age and neopagan ...
St. George and the Dragon is a small oil on wood cabinet painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, painted c. 1505, and now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The saint wears the blue garter of the English Order of the Garter , reflecting the award of this decoration in 1504 to Raphael's patron Guidobaldo da ...
Saint George or Saint George and the Dragon is a small painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, executed c. 1503–1505. It is housed in the Louvre in Paris . A later version of the same subject is the Saint George and the Dragon in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
The dragon fight is foreshadowed with earlier events: Scyld Shefing's funeral and Sigmund's death by dragon, as recounted by a bard in Hrothgar's hall. Beowulf scholar Alexander writes that the dragon fight likely signifies Beowulf's (and by extension, society's) battle against evil. [21]
Russian civil war propaganda poster from 1919: White Russian knight is fighting the Red Russian dragon. In the 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, Walt Disney concluded the tale by having the wicked fairy Maleficent transform herself into a dragon to withstand the prince, converting the fairy tale to one with the princess and dragon theme.
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