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...caboclo' (local mixed race people) legends, the Mapinguary was a man whose hubris led him to seek immortality and who is now relegated to wandering the fores

===The hubris theme=== ...e name of God from its forehead, whereupon it fell over its creator. The [[hubris]] theme in this version is similar to that in the stories of the monster of

...ce of his human cult to escape from his watery tomb in R'lyeh, though this hubris runs counter to Lovecraft's defining philosophy that mankind is insignifica

If Ravana had a fatal flaw, it was doubtless his hubris. When Brahma conferred on him a boon, and Ravana asked that the devas shoul

...created man out of clay. The primary characteristic of the Devil, besides hubris, is that he has no power other than the power to cast evil suggestions into

...logical development; the latter is expressed in the classic theme of the [[hubris]]tic scientist who is destroyed by his own creation.