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The Rider on the White Horse (German: Der Schimmelreiter) is a novella by German writer Theodor Storm. It is his last complete work, first published in 1888, the year of his death. The novella is Storm's best remembered and most widely read work, and considered by many to be his masterpiece.
In John's revelation the first horseman rides a white horse, carries a bow, and is given a crown as a figure of conquest, [2] [3] perhaps invoking pestilence, or the Antichrist. The second carries a sword and rides a red horse as the creator of (civil) war, conflict, and strife. [4]
The 3,000-year-old Uffington White Horse hill figure in England.. White horses have a special significance in the mythologies of cultures around the world. They are often associated with the sun chariot, [1] with warrior-heroes, with fertility (in both mare and stallion manifestations), or with an end-of-time saviour, but other interpretations exist as well.
The White Horse is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the English artist John Constable.It was completed in 1819 and is now in the Frick Collection in New York City.. The painting marked a vital turning point in the artist's career. [1]
Dominant white has been studied in Thoroughbreds, Arabian horses, the American White horse, the Camarillo White Horse, and several other breeds. There are 32 identified variants of dominant white as of 2021, plus sabino 1 , each corresponding to a spontaneously-white foundation animal and a mutation on the KIT gene.
Lithuanian mythologists believe that the bright rider on the white horse symbolizes the ghost of the ancestral warrior, reminiscent of core values and goals, giving strength and courage. [68] Gintaras Beresnevičius also points out that a white horse had a sacral meaning to Balts. [69]
Revelation 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, [1] [2] but the precise identity of the author remains a point of academic debate. [3]
The white horse of Chisséria is from the Canton of Arinthod, where there are many legends about sylphs. [2] This horse is known as Pegasus of Segomo as well. [1] [3] [4] It appeared in the air in the form of a white horse, [5] sometimes along with wispy spirits, sylphs, or ridden by an armed hunter who then roamed the sky. The township is ...