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Finally, they gathered red clay from the four corners of the world, they mixed the clay with their spittle and molded it into the shape of a man. Then Kāne took a special magical white clay and formed it into a head. Then the three Gods breathed life into the statue and created the first man. The first man was created in the image of Kāne.
Lowell ends the poem musing on humankind's origins as having evolved from the "sea's slime", and the biblical irony that the same ocean from which God "breathed into his face the breath of life" is where sailors often die. Then Lowell ends the poem with the famously ambiguous line, "The Lord survives the rainbow of His will."
The Book of Genesis 2:7 states, "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being" [15] [New Revised Standard Version translation]. In context, though, it is important to note that there are two creation stories in Genesis: the one just mentioned in 2:7 ...
Ask to Embla is the title of a poem, parts of which are quoted, by R. H. Ash, one of the protagonists in A. S. Byatt's novel Possession: A Romance, which won the Booker prize in 1990. In the video game Fire Emblem Heroes , the two main warring kingdoms are Askr and Embla, which is where the Summoner, the player, finds themselves in, as the ...
Earth-Maker took soft clay and formed the figure of a man and of a woman, then many men and women, which he dried in the sun and into which he breathed life: they were the First People." (Kroeber 1968:62). The entire narrative is printed in the book Almost Ancestors: The First Californians by Theodora Kroeber and Robert F. Heizer. The (hardback ...
Eight members of the OPEC+ alliance of oil exporting countries decided Thursday to put off increasing oil production as they face weaker than expected demand and competing production from non ...
The first part of the manuscript consists of 64 poems collected under the section “Poems Breathed Forth by the Noble Hadassas,” and 52 poetic emblems in the section “The Sighs of a Sad Soul Emblematically Breathed Forth by the Noble Hadassah.” At the other end of the manuscript is an unfinished prose romance named "The Unfortunate ...
Montrell Johnson Jr.'s 5-yard touchdown run with 7:40 remaining in the fourth quarter gave Florida a 24-17 win over No. 9 Ole Miss on Saturday in Gainesville. Ole Miss had a chance to tie the game ...