Odin

“Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah, Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson, Buying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha, In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved, With Odin and the hideous-faced Mexitli and every idol and image…” Whitman uses this strategy because in Transcendentalism they believe in nature and you cannot get any closer to nature than by believing in a God. Humans always tried to connect to nature by…

In this passage, they are describing the funerla procedure for the King, Beowulf 's father, Shield Sheafson. The reason why I chose this passage from Beowulf is because of the burial ritual itself. When I was in the process of annotating, A couple questions came to mind: Was this ritual only done for a specific social class? If so, what are the burial rituals for lower classes? And what was the Anglo- Saxon’s view on the “afterlife”? In this essay, I will be explaining the true historical…

the wounds like a fountain staining the blank floor with crimson ink. So here he lied, Hans Wolfgang Camp Commander at Auschwitz reduced to nothing but a rotting body in the ground. He cursed at the only thing he knew, the infinite amount of Gods. Odin, Vishnu, Christ, Buddha all were victim to his torment. He did…

Heroes are classified in one of the three archetypes, epic, tragic, or romantic. In the Count of Monte Cristo, the Odyssey, and Thor, the main characters, Edmond Dantes, Odysseus, and Thor respectively, all represent the different types of heroes. Alexandre Dumas, Homer, and Kenneth Branagh all portray their hero’s archetype throughout their pieces of literature. Edmond’s revenge, Odysseus’ travel, and Thor’s battles all make these characters special heroes. Authors create diverse archetypal…

to me. I do not want to see someone who I care about being vilified and ostracized and hurt because of me. Can you not understand that?” Steve argued, of course. He could see Loki’s point, sure. But Steve was not afraid of a fight, and hated the very idea of hiding his new romance. He was not in the slightest ashamed of his feelings for Loki. Loki was, in his opinion, a worthy match for any hero. He was proud that Loki wanted him. Loki made his own point over and over, in different words: he did…

The customary event marking the beginning of the Early Middle Ages is the “fall” of the Roman Empire. It is interpreted that the beginning of the Early Middle Ages is not one dramatic event, but of several long-term trends, including the unadorned economic decline of the later Roman Empire and the incursions and settlement of Germanic peoples within the West. For the next five hundred years, Western Europe remained essentially a primitive culture, elaborate culture of the Roman Empire was never…

An aurora is an electromagnetic phenomenon, which results in a luminous colour display seen in the night sky. These light shows can be viewed in winter months of the polar regions of the northern hemisphere, referred to as Photographer: Larry Gerbrandt aurora borealis, as well as the southern hemisphere, referred to as aurora australis (46 Lerner and Lerner). They appear many different shapes, such as patches of light, rays, arcs, or streamers across the sky. Most commonly, they take the form of…

There are similarities and differences from the two stories, “A world on the turtle’s back”, written by the Iroquois Indians, and “Thor’s Hammer”, written by Norse mythologists. In the story “A world on the turtle’s back”, a woman who fell into void emptiness from a tree, & ended up giving birth to two completely opposite minded people. In “Thor’s Hammer” Loki, who's an avid trickster, was crying for his life to Thor after cutting his wife’s hair off. A similarity I saw in the two stories was…

Who was the best of them all? The Vikings were a very strong civilization because of their economy. Their economy was wealth because they had skilled warriors and traders, and owned much land. The original Vikings were from settlements in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Vikings were fierce barbarian-like men. They were very skilled fighters, merchants, farmers, and craftsmen. The year of 789 a.d. marked the beginning of the Viking age, or “terror of Europe.” Vikings had started attacking Northern…

Symbolism and character development in Snow White Grimm’s Snow white is a story of maturation and growth of a young girl from birth to adolescence and finally adulthood. Her development and life is followed by and predestined by symbolism, mostly in a trio of colors; black, white, and red. On a deeper level though the story is also about the feminine aspects of people in general, the Evil queen being the shadow and negative aspects, Snow White’s mother could be considered the earth mother role…