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Empusa is a character in Faust, Part Two by Goethe. She appears during the Classical Walpurgis Night as Mephisto is being lured by the Lamiae. She refers to herself as cousin to Mephisto because she has a donkey's foot and he has a horse's. Empusa is the name of the ship used by Count Orlok to travel to Wisborg in F. W. Murnau's film Nosferatu ...
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
[148] [149] Images of Jesus as a healer replaced images of Asclepius and Hippocrates as the ideal physician. [149] Jesus, who was originally shown as clean-shaven, may have first been shown as bearded as a result of this syncretism with Asclepius, [150] [151] as well as other bearded deities such as Zeus and Serapis. [151]
Lamia (/ ˈ l eɪ m i ə /; Ancient Greek: Λάμια, romanized: Lámia), in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit or "daimon". In the earliest stories, Lamia was a beautiful queen of ancient Libya who had an affair with Zeus.
Christ Pantocrator mosaic in Byzantine style from the Cefalù Cathedral, Sicily. The most common translation of Pantocrator is "Almighty" or "All-powerful". In this understanding, Pantokrator is a compound word formed from the Greek words πᾶς, pas (GEN παντός pantos), i.e. "all" [4] and κράτος, kratos, i.e. "strength", "might", "power". [5]
The face that Neave constructed suggested that Jesus would have had a broad face and large nose, and differed significantly from the traditional depictions of Jesus in renaissance art. [82] Additional information about Jesus' skin color and hair was provided by Mark Goodacre, a New Testament scholar and professor at Duke University. [82]
To art historians it is a Georgian icon of the 6th-7th century. According to the Golden Legend , which is a collection of hagiographies compiled by Jacobus de Voragine in the thirteenth century, the king Abgarus sent an epistle to Jesus, who answered him writing that he would send him one of his disciples ( Thaddeus of Edessa ) to heal him.
Empusa may refer to: In ancient Greek mythology, the Empusa (or Empousa) was a female supernatural monster or demoness; Empusa, a 2010 movie co-starring Paul Naschy, made in Spain; Empusa, a genus of mantises in the family Empusidae; Empusa, a synonym of the moth genus Cucullia in the family Noctuidae