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Hǫfuð ("man-head", [1] Norwegian hoved, Danish hoved, Swedish huvud and Icelandic höfuð) is the sword of Heimdall. It is mentioned in Gylfaginning chapter 26. Anthony Faulkes 's edition:
Takemikazuchi (建御雷/武甕槌) is a deity in Japanese mythology, considered a god of thunder [2] and a sword god. [3] He also competed in what is considered the first sumo wrestling match recorded in history.
Freyr by Johannes Gehrts, shown with his sword. In Norse mythology, the sword belonging to Freyr, a Norse god associated with sunshine, summer, and fair weather, is depicted as one of the few weapons that is capable of fighting on its own. Since Freyr gave up the sword to Skírnir for the hand of the giantess Gerðr, he will die at Ragnarök.
He rejoiced at this gift and, being ambitious, thought he had been appointed ruler of the whole world, and that through the sword of Mars supremacy in all wars was assured to him. [1] The use of "Mars" here is due to the interpretatio romana of Priscus. Hungarian legends refer to it simply as "az Isten kardja", the sword of God.
However, on the 196 BC Rosetta Stone, it is referenced as the "sword" determinative in a hieroglyph block, with the spelled letters of kh, p, and sh to say: Shall be set up a statue ..., the Avenger of Baq-t -(Egypt), the interpretation whereof is ' Ptolemy , the strong one of Kam-t '-(Egypt), and a statue of the god of the city, giving to him ...
A macuahuitl ([maːˈkʷawit͡ɬ]) is a weapon, a wooden sword with several embedded obsidian blades. The name is derived from the Nahuatl language and means "hand-wood". [ 2 ] Its sides are embedded with prismatic blades traditionally made from obsidian , which is capable of producing an edge sharper than high quality steel razor blades.
Tyrfing as the coat of arms of Bolmsö parish Svafrlami secures the sword Tyrfing.. Tyrfing, also rendered as Tirfing or Tyrving, was a magic sword in Norse mythology, which features in the Tyrfing Cycle, which includes a poem from the Poetic Edda called Hervararkviða, and the Hervarar saga.
A variant account of Izanagi and Izanami's begetting of various gods cited in the Nihon Shoki states that when Izanagi killed the newborn fire god Kagutsuchi (whose birth caused the death of his wife Izanami), the drops of blood from his sword congealed to form the rocks by the heavenly river (天の安河, ame no yasukawa) from which ...