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The Rider on the White Horse (German: Der Schimmelreiter) is a novella by German writer Theodor Storm. It is his last complete work, first published in 1888, the year of his death. The novella is Storm's best remembered and most widely read work, and considered by many to be his masterpiece.
Red, for example, often represents Communism, the white horse and rider with a crown representing Catholicism, Black has been used as a symbol of Capitalism, while Green represents the rise of Islam. Pastor Irvin Baxter Jr. of Endtime Ministries espoused such a belief. [79] Some equate the Four Horsemen with the angels of the four winds. [80]
The 3,000-year-old Uffington White Horse hill figure in England.. White horses have a special significance in the mythologies of cultures around the world. They are often associated with the sun chariot, [1] with warrior-heroes, with fertility (in both mare and stallion manifestations), or with an end-of-time saviour, but other interpretations exist as well.
"The Ebony Horse" features a robot [19] in the form of a flying mechanical horse controlled using keys that could fly into outer space and towards the Sun, [20] while the "Third Qalandar's Tale" also features a robot in the form of an uncanny boatman. [19] "The City of Brass" and "The Ebony Horse" can be considered early examples of proto ...
Well-known examples of this genre include the poems of the Mu'allaqat (a collection of pre-Islamic poems, the most being the one of Imru' al-Qays), the Qasida Burda (Poem of the Mantle) by Imam al-Busiri, and Ibn Arabi's classic collection Tarjumān al-Ashwāq (The Interpreter of Desires).
Aram was invited to ride on the horse with Mourad. The idea of Mourad stealing the horse drained away from Aram's mind when he felt that it wouldn't become stealing unless they offer to sell the horse. They enjoyed rides on the horse for a few hours. After a short time of riding, Mourad wanted to ride alone on the horse.
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" is a poem by Robert Browning published in Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, 1845. [1] The poem, one of the volume's "dramatic romances", is a first-person narrative told, in breathless galloping meter, by one of three riders; the midnight errand is urgent—"the news which alone could save Aix from her fate"—although the nature of that good news ...
Boy on a white horse, drawing by Theodor Kittelsen (1857–1914). Of the four elements, water is the one most often associated with the horse, [156] whether the animal is assimilated to an aquatic creature, linked to fairy-like beings such as Japan's kappa, or mounted by water deities. He may be born of water himself, or cause it to gush forth ...