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The first theme is using legendary luminous gems to illuminate buildings, for navigation lights on ships, or sometimes as guiding lights for lost persons (Ball 1938: 498–500). In India, the earliest country in which fine gemstones were known, belief in luminous gems dates back some twenty-five centuries.
Allmusic. [1] Robert Christgau. [2] Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) is an EP by the alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, released in 1993. It is notable for being the band's first release with a full-band line-up, rather than only the two original members ( John Flansburgh and John Linnell) performing.
Atmospheric optics. A colorful sky is often due to indirect sunlight being scattered off air molecules and particulates, like smog, soot, and cloud droplets, as shown in this photo of a sunset during the October 2007 California wildfires. Atmospheric optics is "the study of the optical characteristics of the atmosphere or products of ...
Purple is the color most associated with ambiguity. Like other colors made by combining two primary colors, it is seen as uncertain and equivocal. Mourning. In Britain, purple is sometimes associated with mourning. In Victorian times, close relatives wore black for the first year following a death ("deep mourning"), and then replaced it with ...
The phoenix is an immortal bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. While it is part of Greek mythology, it has analogs in many cultures, such as Egyptian and Persian. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by rising from the ashes of its predecessor. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion ...
Kisosen, the Abenaki solar deity, an eagle whose wings opened to create the day and closed to cause the nighttime. Napioa, the Blackfoot deity of the Sun. Tawa, the Hopi creator and god of the Sun. Wi, Lakota god of the Sun. Aba' Bínni'li', the Chickasaw creator deity, strongly associated with the sun.
Shades of purple. There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below. In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue. [1] However, the meaning of the term purple is not well defined. There is confusion about the meaning of the terms purple and violet even among ...
Amaterasu. Unamed sun god, (One Myth),Tsukuyomi (some myths). Amaterasu Ōmikami ( 天照大御神, 天照大神 ), often called Amaterasu for short, also known as Ōhirume no Muchi no Kami ( 大日孁貴神 ), is the goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology. Often considered the chief deity ( kami) of the Shinto pantheon, [1] [2] [3] she is ...