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Icarus ignored Daedalus's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned. The myth gave rise to the idiom, "fly too close to the sun." In some versions of the tale, Daedalus and Icarus escape by ship. [1] [4]
The StoryTeller: Dragons which featured the stories "The Son of the Serpent" (based on Native American folktales of the Horned Serpent), "The Worm of Lambton", "Albina" (a gender-swapped retelling of the Russian story of Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin), and "Samurai's Sacrifice" (based around the alleged Japanese folk tale A Story of Oki Islands).
In Greek mythology, Daedalus (UK: / ˈ d iː d ə l ə s /, US: / ˈ d ɛ d ə l ə s /; [1] Greek: Δαίδαλος; Latin: Daedalus; Etruscan: Taitale) was a skillful architect and craftsman, seen as a symbol of wisdom, knowledge and power.
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This is a list of flying mythological creatures. This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures. Adzehate creatures; Angel; Arkan Sonney; Basilisk; Boobrie; Cockatrice; Djinn; Devil; Dragon; Elemental - a being of the alchemical works of Paracelsus; Erinyes; Fairies; Fenghuang; Fionnuala
The Flying Islands of the Night (1913) by James Whitcomb Riley, with illustrations by Franklin Booth. [12] "Cities in the Air" by Edmond Hamilton (Air Wonder Stories, November–December 1929). The Cities in Flight series (1950–1962) by James Blish propose a universe in which cities cast adrift from the Earth, powered by a fictional spindizzy ...
Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun or too low to the sea. Overwhelmed with the excitement of flying, Icarus flew much too high, and as a result the wax melted and his feathers fell off. Down Icarus plunged into the sea, and indeed into death as well. The story of Icarus is often used to signify the dangers of over-ambition. [3]
In Inuit mythology, the Qallupilluit (a.k.a. Qalupalik) are creatures that live along Arctic shorelines near ice floes. They are said to steal children that wander too close to the water. This myth is believed to serve the purpose of protecting children from a dangerous environment, keeping them from wandering too close to the ice. [2]