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The mask of Xiuhtecuhtli, from the British Museum, of Aztec or Mixtec provenance. [9]Xiuhtecuhtli's face is painted with black and red pigment. [16] Xiuhtecuhtli was usually depicted adorned with turquoise mosaic, wearing the turquoise xiuhuitzolli crown of rulership on his head and a turquoise butterfly pectoral on his chest, [27] and he often wears a descending turquoise xiuhtototl bird ...
The Vedic myth of fire's theft by Mātariśvan is an analogue to the Greek account. [17] Pramant was the fire-drill, the tool used to create fire. [18] The suggestion that Prometheus was in origin the human "inventor of the fire-sticks, from which fire is kindled" goes back to Diodorus Siculus in the first century BC. The reference is again to ...
Girra, god of fire in Akkadian and Babylonian records; Gibil, skilled god of fire and smithing in Sumerian records; Ishum, god of fire who was the brother of the sun god Shamash, and an attendant of Erra; Nusku, god of heavenly and earthly fire and light, and patron of the arts; Shamash, ancient Mesopotamian Sun god
The origin of the Roman god of fire Vulcan has been traced back to the Cretan god Velchanos by Gérard Capdeville, primarily under the suggestion of the close similarity of their names. [52] Cretan Velchanos is a young god of Mediterranean or Near Eastern origin who has mastership of fire and is the companion of the Great Goddess .
Quetzalcoatl, god of life, the light and wisdom, lord of the winds and daytime, ruler of the West. Huitzilopochtli, god of war and sacrifice, lord of the sun and fire, ruler of the South. Xolotl, god of lightning, death, and fire, associated with Venus as the Evening Star (Twin of Quetzalcoatl) Ehecatl, god of wind (a form of Quetzalcoatl)
Our God is a 'consuming fire' in the sense in which we have taken the word; and thus he enters in as a 'refiner's fire' to refine the rational nature, which has been filled with the lead of wickedness, and to free it from the other impure materials which adulterate the natural gold or silver, so to speak, of the soul. [30]
Some translations of the Bible mention "plague" (e.g. the New International Version) [25] or "pestilence" (e.g. the Revised Standard Version) [26] in connection with the riders in the passage following the introduction of the fourth rider; cf. "They were given power over a fourth of the Earth to kill by sword, famine, plague, and by the wild ...
The Wheel of Fire is part of the Aristotelian reading of a tragedy (e.g., plays), which includes the central flaw within a character. In Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, the flaw in Othello himself is his vulnerability to jealousy and his tendency to believe Iago, who is manipulating Othello into believing his wife is unfaithful.