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Mago Island, an island in Fiji; Mago, Minorca, a Carthaginian and later Roman town in Menorca; Mago, Russia, a rural locality (a settlement) in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia; Mago National Park, in Ethiopia Mount Mago a mountain in Mago National Park, Ethiopia; Mago River a tributary of the Omo river in Mago National Park, Ethiopia
The early Greek texts typically have the pejorative meaning, which in turn influenced the meaning of magos to denote a conjurer and a charlatan. [15] Already in the mid-5th century BC, Herodotus identifies the magi as interpreters of omens and dreams ( Histories 7.19, 7.37, 1.107, 1.108, 1.120, 1.128 [ 16 ] ).
[citation needed] In the past, photographs of German politicians together with children in blackface have caused a stir in English-language press. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] Moreover, Afro-Germans have written that this use of blackface is a missed opportunity to be truly inclusive of Afro-Germans in German-speaking communities and contribute to the ...
"Mago" (stylized in all caps) is a song recorded by South Korean girl group GFriend for their third Korean-language studio album Walpurgis Night. The song was released as the title track of the album on November 9, 2020 by Source Music. It is the group’s final release before their departure from Source Music and disbandment on May 2021. [1]
Magu is called Mago in Korean and Mako in Japanese. In Japan, Mako is usually referenced in connection to the Chinese story (below) about Magu's long fingernails, for instance, the phrase Mako sōyō ( 麻姑掻痒 "Magu scratches the itch") metaphorically means "things going like one imagined".
The name "Mago(n)" was a common masculine given name among the Carthaginian elite. It meant "Godsent". [2]The cognomen or epithet BRQ means "thunderbolt" or "shining".It is cognate with the Arabic name Barq and the Hebrew name Barak and equivalent to the Greek Keraunos, which was borne by contemporary commanders. [3]
Archimago is a sorcerer in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.In the narrative, he is continually engaged in deceitful magics, as when he makes a false Una to tempt the Red-Cross Knight into lust, and when this fails, conjures another image, of a squire, to deceive the knight into believing that Una was false to him.
Mago or Magon (Punic: 𐤌𐤂𐤍, MGN; [1] Ancient Greek: Μάγων, Mágōn) was commander of the Carthaginian fleet and army in Sicily in 344 BC. When Timoleon had made himself master of the citadel of Syracuse after the departure of Dionysius, Hicetas, finding himself unable to cope single-handed with this new and formidable rival, called in the assistance of Mago, who appeared ...