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John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, [a] was an Assyrian Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist.He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, on 4 December AD 749. [5]
Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, [1] [2] offers a description of the story surrounding how humanity was created by the gods, how the office of kingship entered human civilization, the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global flood.
The Fountain of Youth is a mythical spring which supposedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters. Tales of such a fountain have been recounted around the world for thousands of years, appearing in the writings of Herodotus (5th century BC), in the Alexander Romance (3rd century AD), and in the stories of Prester John (early Crusades, 11th/12th centuries AD).
Within academia, the history of knowledge is the field covering the accumulated and known human knowledge constructed or discovered during human history and its historic forms, focus, accumulation, bearers, [1] impacts, mediations, distribution, applications, societal contexts, conditions [2] and methods of production.
Fount can refer to: The traditional English spelling of the American English font (i.e. typeface ) A spring or fountain , and thus, metaphorically, a source of something beneficial (as in fount of knowledge, wisdom etc.)
He calls it his “origin story”: his debut memoir, Source Code, being published on Tuesday, Feb. 4. The book, the first installment of a planned trilogy, covers Gates’ childhood and young ...
The Salmon story figures prominently in The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, which recounts the early adventures of Fionn mac Cumhaill. In the story, an ordinary salmon ate nine hazelnuts that fell into the Well of Wisdom (an Tobar Segais) from nine hazel trees that surrounded the well. By this act, the salmon gained all the world's knowledge.
On the Orthodox Faith: Volume 3 of the Fount of Knowledge: St. John of Damascus: Norman Russell: 63 Headings on Spiritual Knowledge: The Second Part, Chapters 1-3: St. Isaac of Nineveh: Sebastian Brock: 64 On Death and Eternal Life: St. Gregory of Nyssa: Brian E. Daley: 65 The Prayers of Saint Sarapion: The Bishop of Thmuis: St. Serapion of ...