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Twice he sent hundreds of people under the direction of Xu Fu to find the legendary elixir of life, but failed. He allegedly died of mercury poisoning after he had eaten too many mercury pills, prescribed by his court doctors to make him immortal. [17] Ravana, Ravana is a mythological King in Hindu mythology. Rawana was an ambitious brahmin who ...
Bhartrhari was the elder son of King Gandharva Sena, who received the kingdom of Ujjain from The celestial god Indra and the King of Dhara. [2] [3]When Bhartrhari was king of 'Ujjayani' (modern day Ujjain), there lived a Brahman who got the fruit of immortality from the celestial wish granting tree, Kalpavriksha, as a result of long austerity.
The Daily Life of the Immortal King (Chinese: 仙王的日常生活, pinyin: Xiān Wáng de Rìcháng Shēnghuó) is a Chinese novel by Kuxuan. This novel is published by Qidian [1] in Chinese and Webnovel in English. [2] It began daily serialization in 2017.
It also covers spirits as well as deities found within the African religions—which is mostly derived from traditional African religions. Additionally, prominent mythic figures including heroes and legendary creatures may also be included in this list.
West African mythology is the body of myths of the people of West Africa. It consists of tales of various deities, beings, legendary creatures , heroes and folktales from various ethnic groups. Some of these myths traveled across the Atlantic during the period of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to become part of Caribbean , African-American and ...
A mythological king is an archetype in mythology. A king is considered a "mythological king" if he is included and described in the culture's mythology . Unlike a fictional king, aspects of their lives may have been real and legendary, or that the culture (through legend and story telling) believed to be real.
Kashchey the Immortal by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1848–1926 Koshchei (Russian: Коще́й , romanized : Koshchey , IPA: [kɐˈɕːej] ), also Kashchei (Russian: Каще́й , romanized : Kashchey , IPA: [kɐˈɕːej] ), often given the epithet " the Immortal ", or " the Deathless " ( Russian : Бессме́ртный ), is an archetypal male ...
Kuru was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India of the Bharata and Puru tribes.The Kuru kingdom appeared in the Middle Vedic period [2] [4] (c. 1200 – c. 900 BCE), encompassing parts of the modern-day states of Haryana, Delhi, and some North parts of Western Uttar Pradesh.