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"Chariot", a fictional character from the anime series and video game Black Rock Shooter "Chariot", a piece in Xiangqi (Chinese chess) Chariot (Australia), Internet service provider; Chariot (Chinese constellation), one of the twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese zodiac; Chariot (company), a San Francisco-based commuter shuttle provider
The word chariot itself is derived from the Norman French charriote and shares a Celtic root (Gaulish: karros). Some 20 iron-aged chariot burials have been excavated in Britain, roughly dating from between 500 BC and 100 BC. Virtually all of them were found in East Yorkshire – the exception was a find in 2001 in Newbridge, 10 km west of ...
The noun merkavah "thing to ride in, cart" is derived from the consonantal root רכב r-k-b with the general meaning "to ride". The word "chariot" is found 44 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible—most of them referring to normal chariots on earth, [5] and although the concept of the Merkabah is associated with Ezekiel's vision (), the word is not explicitly written in Ezekiel 1.
Charioteer of Delphi, The life-size (1.8m) bronze statue of a chariot driver was found in 1896 at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi; Charioteer (tank), a post-Second World War British tank; Operation Charioteer, a series of U.S. nuclear tests; The Charioteer, a novel by Mary Renault; The Charioteers, an American gospel and pop vocal group from ...
In the Stri Parva of the Mahabharata, Vidura explains the concept of samsara to his grieving brother Dhritarashtra by offering the metaphor of a chariot and a charioteer. [4] The body of creatures is a chariot; sattva they call the charioteer; the senses, they call horses; the mental organ of action (karmabuddhi) is the reins.
The Chariot Upright Meaning. Distractions are abundant, especially in today’s mile-a-minute world. But if you want something badly enough (and from the looks of it, you do) then you need to get ...
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An essedarius was a type of gladiator in Ancient Rome who fought from a chariot. The word was used in Caesar's Gallic Wars to describe British charioteers, who were driven over the battlefield, throwing spears at the enemy, then dismounted to fight or launched themselves along the chariot yoke. [1] There are few references to them in the ...