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Gibborim (Hebrew: גִּבֹּרִ֛ים, romanized: gībbōrīm, singular גִּבֹּר gībbor) is a Hebrew word that can be glossed "mightiest" and is an intensive form of the word for "man" (גֶּבֶר geḇer). In the Hebrew Bible, it is used to describe people who are valiant, mighty, or of great stature.
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery.A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire, or agriculture, songs, tradition, law or religion, and is usually the most important legendary figure of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.
Mormo appears in many forms, but three are most common: as a mocking vampiric maiden, as a tentacle-haired gorgon, or as a hunched toad-like albino with a mass of feelers instead of a face. This last form is the appearance of her servitors, the Moon-beasts. Mortllgh Storm of Steel
Many characters were removed from the list that were previously included because their respective teams (A-Force, Avengers Idea Mechanics, Occupy Avengers, Savage Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D. led Secret Avengers, Ultimates, U.S. Avengers and the second iteration of West Coast Avengers) were declared as not officially sanctioned Avengers by handbooks ...
The Bonn–Oberkassel dog was a Late Paleolithic (c. 12,000 BCE) dog whose partial skeletal remains were found buried alongside two humans in Bonn, Germany.Initially identified as a wolf upon its discovery in 1914, its remains were separated and lost within the University of Bonn's collections.
Man-E-Faces is a multi-faced Heroic Warrior, with the ability to change his faces from a human face to a monster face to a robot face. [4] His physical abilities mirror the face he wears. [14] Man-E-Faces, at times called "Manny" by his fellow Masters, had a prodigious career as an actor prior to his transformation. He is also a master of ...
Although the Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other dynasty in Chinese history, the actual political and military control of China by the dynasty, surnamed Ji (Chinese: 姬), lasted only until 771 BC, a period known as the Western Zhou. This period of Chinese history produced what many consider the zenith of Chinese bronze-ware making
The Hero with an African Face. New York: Bantam, 2000. Henderson, Mary. Star Wars: The Magic of Myth. Companion volume to the exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. New York: Bantam, 1997. Larsen, Stephen and Robin Larsen. Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2002.