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The good can cross the river by a bridge while the evil are cast into the dragon-infested rapids. The Sanzu-no-Kawa ( 三途の川 , "Sanzu River", literally the "Three-World River" in reference to Buddhist ideas about realms of existence) is a mythological river in Japanese Buddhist tradition similar to the Chinese concept of Huang Quan ...
Through incredible feats, she convinces them to pledge themselves to "the One God" and follow her to march on the besieged city of Sanction [citation needed]. Over and over, Mina is able to convert her opponents and save the day. The city of Sanction is retaken by the Solamnic Knights, and the old gods return to the world.
In Dante's Inferno, which is the first part of Divine Comedy, Phlegethon is described as a river of blood that boils souls.It is in the Seventh Circle of Hell, which punishes those who committed crimes of violence against their fellow men (see Canto XII, 46–48); murderers, tyrants, and the like.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
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]
Jiao 蛟 illustration from the 1725 Gujin Tushu Jicheng. Jiaolong (simplified Chinese: 蛟龙; traditional Chinese: 蛟龍; pinyin: jiāolóng; Wade–Giles: chiao-lung) or jiao (chiao, kiao) is a dragon in Chinese mythology, often defined as a "scaled dragon"; it is hornless according to certain scholars and said to be aquatic or river-dwelling.
Goodbye, Dragon Life (さようなら竜生、こんにちは人生, Sayōnara Ryūsei, Konnichiwa Jinsei, lit. ' Goodbye Dragon Life, Hello Human Life ') is a Japanese light novel series written by Hiroaki Nagashima and illustrated by Kisuke Ichimaru.
River God follows the fate of the Egyptian Kingdom through the eyes of Taita, a multi-talented and highly skilled eunuch slave. Taita is owned by Lord Intef and primarily looks after his daughter, Lostris, but also plays a large role in the day-to-day running of Lord Intef's estate.