...hon's birth and death at the hands of Apollo. In the earliest, the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, little detail is given about Apollo's combat with the serpent or
* Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo
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...r the purpose of retrieving the tablets. In a third legend, found in ''The Hymn of Ashurbanipal'', Marduk is said to have killed Anzu.
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Orphic Hymn 71 to Melinoe (trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.) :<blockqu
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...ir number is given as eight, and the last one is believed to be Vivasvāna. Hymn LXXII of Rig Veda, Book 10, also confirms that there are eight Adityas, the
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...igveda. Mitra and Varuna are addressed as devas in Rigveda and in the only hymn dedicated to Mitra, he is referred to as a deva (mitrasya...devasya).
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The goat Amalthea's horn, according to the Alexandrian poet Callimachus (Hymn to Zeus) was the original of the drinking vessel called a rhyton, an invert
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A ''Hymn of Sekhmet'' says:
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*The Hymn
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...x. 565) reckons him among the giants who stormed Olympus, and Callimachus (Hymn. in Del. 141, &c.), regarding him in the same light, places him under mount
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...e on earth one who shall make mischief and shed blood (mankind) while they hymn His praise and sanctify Him. It caused them to receive the answer that He k
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In one verse of a Rig-Vedic hymn eulogising Sarasvati, the latter is credited with the slaying of Vritra. Me
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...[[Hades]] gave to Perseus on his quest to kill [[Medusa]]. According to a hymn of Callimachus they were Hephaestus' helpers. The Cyclopes were said to hav
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...en a funeral procession passes by the two girls and Laura begins singing a hymn, Carmilla bursts out in rage and scolds Laura for singing a Christian song.
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Probably the beginning of the linguistic misunderstanding is the Homeric hymn to Pan, which describes him as delighting ''all'' the gods, and thus gettin
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...et, or contract". The earliest attestation of the term is in the [[Homeric Hymn]] to [[Hermes]] where Hermes on seeing the [[tortoise]] exclaims ''συμβ
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...Isidor. Orig. viii. 11; Apulei. Met. i. p. 57; comp. Spanheim, ad Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 67.)</blockquote>
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...English literature, it was to be a productive summer. Percy began work on "Hymn To Intellectual Beauty" and "Mont Blanc". Mary, in the meantime, was inspir
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There is another Jewish hymn recited on the festival of Shavuot (celebrating the giving of the Torah), k
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...c., 398, &c.) Epidemic diseases are sometimes personified as Kêres. (Orph. Hymn. xiii. 12, lxvi. 4, Lith. vii. 6; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 847.)
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...many regional variations. It is sung to the melody of an American Baptist hymn called Shall We Gather At The River?.
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