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In Norse mythology, Árvakr (Old Norse "early awake" [1]) and Alsviðr ("very quick" [2]) are the horses which pull the sun, or Sól's chariot, across the sky each day. [2] It is said that the gods fixed bellows underneath the two horses' shoulders to help cool them off as they rode.
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.
In Greek mythology, Trochilus (Ancient Greek: Τρόχιλος Trókhilos) was a member of the Argive royal house as the son of Princess Callithyia (equated with Io "Callithyessa" in her role of the priestess of the Argive Hera).
The daily course of *Seh₂ul across the sky on a horse-driven chariot is a common motif among Indo-European myths. [note 1] [note 2] While it is probably inherited, the motif certainly appeared after the introduction of the wheel in the Pontic–Caspian steppe about 3500 BC, and is therefore a late addition to Proto-Indo-European culture. [4]
The Ashvins are invoked at dawn, the time of their principal sacrifice, and have a close connection with the dawn goddess, Uṣas: she is bidden to awaken them (8.9.17), they follow her in their chariot (8.5.2), she is born when they hitch their steeds (10.39.12), and their chariot is once said to arrive before her (1.34.10).
Varro categorized Luna and Sol among the visible gods, as distinguished from invisible gods such as Neptune, and deified mortals such as Hercules. [4] She was one of the deities Macrobius proposed as the secret tutelary of Rome. [5] In Imperial cult, Sol and Luna can represent the extent of Roman rule over the world, with the aim of ...
In the "Li Sao", Qu Yuan, on a spiritual journey, which he describes as being pulled in a chariot by winged dragons, leaves the Ford of Heaven in the morning and reaches Kunlun by nightfall. On the way, in line 350 of the "Li Sao" (according to David Hawkes' line numbering), Qu Yuan comes to the banks of the Red Water (or River).
Mother and daughter were exiled to the desert, where the demon Igrathiel mated with Mahalat and engendered Agrat or Igrat. [4] Mahalat later became Esau 's wife. About 1000 years after the era of Solomon and David, another widely known intervention occurred known as "The spiritual intervention of Hanina ben Dosa and Rabbi Abaye " which ended up ...