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Andrew Bowser is an American actor, writer and director best known for his fictional character Onyx the Fortuitous. Collaborating with Joseph M. Petrick, Bowser co-directed and starred in the independent comedy The Mother of Invention. [1] He wrote, directed, and starred in Jimmy Tupper Vs.
Onycha is a play on the word onyx which was a gem. The onyx most esteemed by the ancients was the black gem. [30] The Hebrew word for onyx was shoham and “Braun traces shoham to the Arabic sachma,'blackness:' 'Of such a color,' says he, 'are the Arabian [onyxes], which have a black ground-color.'
Apparently derived from "fortuitous", which refers to something that happens by fortune or chance, [2] "fortuosity" is a Disney neologism and has a more positive meaning than "fortuitous" or that word's standard noun form, "fortuity", which means accident, chance, or an accidental occurrence. [3]
SGI Onyx, a line of symmetric multiprocessing computers from Silicon Graphics; Synaptics Onyx, a concept cellphone designed to display Synaptics ClearPad technology; Onyx International Inc, a company producing the Onyx Boox ebook readers; Onyx (satellite), a code name often associated with newer variants of the Lacrosse satellite
Fortuna (Latin: Fortūna, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion who, largely thanks to the Late Antique author Boethius, remained popular through the Middle Ages until at least the Renaissance.
Onyx – Onyx is a wizard of Roke (The Other Wind) Orm – Orm is a dragon of the West Reach. Slayer of Erreth-Akbe. Orm Embar – Orm Embar is a powerful dragon of the West Reach descended from Orm. Frees Ged to overcome Cob, sacrificing himself in order to crush Cob's body. (The Farthest Shore) Orm Irian – Orm Irian is a dragon-woman.
According to Hesiod's Theogony, Nyx is the offspring of Chaos, alongside Erebus (Darkness), by whom she becomes the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day). [7] Without the assistance of a father, Nyx produces Moros (Doom, Destiny), Ker (Destruction, Death), Thanatos (Death), Hypnos (Sleep), the Oneiroi (Dreams), Momus (Blame), Oizys (Pain, Distress), the Hesperides, the Moirai (Fates), the Keres ...
Eros was the original, primordial god of love and intercourse; he was also worshiped as a fertility deity. His Roman counterpart was Cupid (desire). [citation needed] In later myths, he was the son of the deities Aphrodite and Ares: It is the Eros of these later myths who is one of the erotes.