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The name Cycnus is the Latinised form of the Greek, which means "swan". Hyginus proposes in his Fabulae that the mournful Cycnus, who is transformed into a swan by the gods, joins the dirge of the amber-crying poplars, the Heliades, the half-sisters of the dead Phaethon, who also experienced a metamorphosis at the death of the reckless Phaethon ...
Kublai Khan [N 1] is an American metalcore band from Sherman, Texas. The group formed in the summer of 2009, [ 7 ] and they have released five albums and two EPs. Career
In the Yucatec Maya language, the name is spelt Kʼukʼulkan (/kʼuː kʼuːlˈkän/) and in Tzotzil it is Kʼukʼul-chon (/kʼuːˈkʼuːl tʃʰon/). [4] The Yucatec form of the name is formed from the word kuk "feather" with the adjectival suffix -ul, giving kukul "feathered", [5] combined with kan "snake" (Tzotzil chon), [6] giving a literal meaning of "feathered snake".
Kublai chose the 17-year-old Kököchin. [1] Kublai, from his capital of Khanbaliq (the Khan's city, modern day Beijing) entrusted Marco Polo with his last duty, to escort princess Kökechin to Arghun along with three envoys, Oulatai, Apusca, and Coja. [2] The party travelled by sea, departing from the southern port city of Quanzhou in the ...
A Song general abandoned Jiankang (i.e. Nanking), and the Mongols took Changzhou and Wuxi. Kublai Khan then sent Lian Xixian and Yan Zhongfan to the Song to discuss a ceasefire. Lian Xixian asked Bayan for bodyguards, but Bayan advised that the more bodyguards Lian took with him, the more the likelihood that the Song Chinese might harm him.
The series adaptation of the Robert McCammon novel “Swan Song” has found its writer, Variety has learned exclusively. Russell Rothberg has boarded the project, which was first announced in ...
Swan song is a reference to an ancient, controversial belief that swans sing just before they die, ... "Swan Song", a song by His Name Is Alive from Ft. Lake
The Chinese Zen Buddhist monk Haiyun gave him the name Zhenjin ("True Gold") when he was born in 1243. [3] He was created Prince of Yan (燕王), became the head of the Central Secretariat (Zhongshu Sheng) by his father in 1262, [3] and was designated as the Crown Prince (皇太子) of the Yuan dynasty by Kublai Khan in 1273. [4]