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Ame-no-Nuboko (天沼矛 or 天之瓊矛 or 天瓊戈, "heavenly jeweled spear"), also known simply as the Tenkei (天瓊, "heavenly spear"), is the name given to the spear in Shinto used to raise the primordial land-mass, Onogoro-shima, from the sea. It is often represented as a naginata. [1]
Ama-no-Saka-hoko (Heavenly Upside Down Spear) is an antique and mysterious spear, staked by Ninigi-no-Mikoto at the summit of Takachiho-no-mine, where he and his divine followers first landed, according to the legend of Tenson kōrin. Nihongo, is one of three legendary Japanese spears created by the famed swordsmith Masazane Fujiwara. A famous ...
An ancient symbol of a unicursal five-pointed star circumscribed by a circle with many meanings, including but not limited to, the five wounds of Christ and the five elements (earth, fire, water, air, and soul). In Satanism, it is flipped upside-down. See also: Sigil of Baphomet. Rose Cross
Although the spear had a profound role in early Japanese mythology, where the islands of Japan themselves were said to be created by salt water dripping from the tip of the spear Ame-no-Nuhoko (Heavenly jeweled spear), as a weapon the first spear prototypes were brought from mainland Asia. These early versions were not seen as suitable by the ...
A scythe (handle down), emblematic of Ceres as goddess of the harvest Pallas ⚴ U+26B4 A spear, emblematic of Athena Juno ⚵ U+26B5 A scepter, emblematic of Juno as queen of the gods, topped with a star Vesta ⚶ U+26B6 The fire-altar of Vesta's temple: Astraea [34] %, ⯙ U+0025, U+2BD9 The % sign (shift-5 on the keyboard for asteroid 5) [36 ...
Fresco by Fra Angelico, Dominican monastery at San Marco, Florence, showing the lance piercing the side of Jesus on the cross (c. 1440). The Holy Lance, also known as the Spear of Longinus (named after Saint Longinus), the Spear of Destiny, or the Holy Spear, is alleged to be the lance that pierced the side of Jesus as he hung on the cross during his crucifixion.
The king's "mottled" face and hands, which seemed to jump out from the background, says Brinkerhoff, add to the portrait's weird quality. "The face is gentle, weary and a little sad.
Hencke requested that the symbol for 5 Astraea be an upside-down anchor; [54] however, a weighing scale was sometimes used instead. [16] [55] Gauss named 6 Hebe at Hencke's request, and chose a wineglass as the symbol. [56] [57] As more new asteroids were discovered, astronomers continued to assign symbols to them.