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Wolves In Folklore, Religion And Mythology
The wolf is a common motif in the foundational mythologies and cosmologies of peoples throughout Eurasia and North America (corresponding to the historical extent of the habitat of the gray wolf), and also plays a role in ancient European cultures. The modern trope of the Big Bad Wolf arises from European folklore. The wolf holds great importance in the cultures and religions of many nomadic peoples, such as those of the Eurasian steppe and North American Plains. Wolves have sometimes been associated with witchcraft in both northern European and some Native American cultures: in Norse folklore, the völva Hyndluljóð, Hyndla and the gýgr Hyrrokin are both portrayed as using wolves as mounts, while in Navajo people, Navajo culture, wolves have sometimes been interpreted as Witch (Navajo), witches in wolf's clothing. Traditional Tsilhqot'in beliefs have warned that contact with wolves could in some cases possibly cause mental illness and death. Akkadian One of the earliest writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupa Capitolina, Rome
Lupa may refer to: Places * Lupa Ward Ward in Chunya, Mbeya, Tanzania * Lupa Gold Field, in Chunya, Mbeya, Tanzania * Lupa Island (Hungary) * Lupa Zoo, Ludlow, Massachusetts, United States * Mount Lupa, Antarctica Other * Auguste Lupa, a fictional character in two pastiche novels by author John Lescroart * Lupa (ship), ''Lupa'' (ship), an 18th-century Ottoman galley ship * Lupa, the author of the book ''A Field Guide to Otherkin'' (2007) See also * La lupa (other) * Lupae (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishtar
Inanna is the List of Mesopotamian deities, ancient Mesopotamian goddess of war, love, and fertility. She is also associated with political power, divine law, sensuality, and procreation. Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Akkadians, Babylonian religion, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar. Her primary title is Queen of Heaven (antiquity), "the Queen of Heaven". She was the patron goddess of the Eanna temple at the city of Uruk, her early main religious center. In archaic Uruk, she was worshipped in three forms: morning Inanna (Inana-UD/hud), evening Inanna (Inanna sig), and princely Inanna (Inanna NUN), the former two reflecting the phases of her associated planet Venus. Her most prominent symbols include the Lion of Babylon, lion and the Star of Ishtar, eight-pointed star. Her husband is the god Dumuzid (later known as Tammuz), and her (attendant) is the goddess Ninshubur, later conflated with the male deities Ilabrat and Papsukkal. Inanna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proto-Indo-European Mythology
Proto-Indo-European mythology is the body of myths and deities associated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans, speakers of the hypothesized Proto-Indo-European language. Although the mythological motifs are not directly attested – since Proto-Indo-European speakers lived in preliterate societies – scholars of comparative mythology have reconstructed details from inherited similarities in mythological concepts found in Indo-European languages, based on the assumption that parts of the Proto-Indo-Europeans' original belief systems survived in the daughter traditions. The Proto-Indo-European Pantheon (religion), pantheon includes a number of securely reconstructed deities, since they are both cognates—linguistic siblings from a common origin—and associated with similar attributes and body of myths: such as , the Sky deity, daylight-sky god; his consort , the Mother goddess, earth mother; his daughter , the dawn goddess; his sons the divine twins, Divine Twins; and and , a sola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romolo E Remo
Romolo is an Italian given name, and may refer to: * Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621), Saint and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Romolo Ferri (1928–2015), Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer * Romolo Gessi (1831–1881), Italian soldier * Romolo Valli (1925–1980), Italian actor See also * * Romulus (other) * Romolo (Milan Metro) Romolo is a station on Line 2 of the Milan Metro. The station is located between Viale Romolo and Largo Alberto Ascari Alberto Ascari (13 July 1918 – 26 May 1955) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Ascari ..., a Line 2 station between Viale Romolo and Largo Alberto Ascari {{disambiguation Italian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teip
A ''teip'' (also ''taip'', ''tayp'', ''teyp''; Chechen language, Chechen and Ingush language, Ingush: тайпа, romanized: ''taypa'' , ''family'', ''kin'', ''clan'', ''tribe''Нохчийн-Оьрсийн словарь (Chechen-Russian Dictionary, A.G. Matsiyev, Moscow, 1961), ''also available online:'Чеченско-Русский словарь: “схьаIенадала-такхадала”; ''and' ) is a Chechen and Ingush tribe, tribal organization or clan, self-identified through descent from a common ancestor or geographic location. It is a sub-unit of the tukkhum and Ingush societies, shahar. There are about 150 Chechen and 120 Ingush teips. Teips played an important role in the socioeconomic life of the Chechen and Ingush peoples before and during the Middle Ages, and continue to be an important cultural part to this day. Traditional rules and features Common teip rules and some features include: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthem Of The Chechen Republic Of Ichkeria
"Death or Freedom" was the national anthem of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, a former List of active separatist movements in Europe#North Caucasian Federal District, partially recognized separatist state in the North Caucasus, used between 1991 and 2000. The music was composed in 1991 by either Ali Dimayev or Umar Beksultanov, and the lyrics were written by Abuzar Aydamirov.Flag, Emblem and Anthem ''Waynakh Online''. The Dudayev-era anthem replaced "My Checheno-Ingushetia", the anthem of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Afterwards, "Death or Freedom" was officially replaced by the current Kadyrov-era Shatlak's Song, State Anthem of the Chechen Republic. Lyrics Chechen original< ...
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Chechnya
Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia. It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, between the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The republic forms a part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with Georgia (country), Georgia to its south; with the Russian republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia, and North Ossetia–Alania to its east, north, and west; and with Stavropol Krai to its northwest. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Chechnya and Ingushetia in the Soviet Union, Checheno-Ingush ASSR split into two parts: the Republic of Ingushetia and the Chechen Republic. The latter proclaimed the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which declared independence, while the former sided with Russia. Following the First Chechen War of 1994–1996 with Russia, Chechnya gained ''de facto'' independence as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, although ''de jure'' it remained a part of Russia. Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chechen Wolf
The Chechen wolf, or gray wolf (, pronounced or ), is the national animal of the Chechen nation.Jaimoukha, Amjad. ''The Chechens: A Handbook'', Caucasus World: Peoples of the Caucasus, Routledge; (2005), p. 153. Culture Characteristics of the wolf are also frequently compared to the Chechen people in a poetic or metaphoric sense, e.g. as being "free and equal like wolves", or representing "courage and tenacity", compared to the British " stiff upper lip" by Jaimoukha (2005). The saying of a person having been "raised by the She-Wolf" expresses admirable personality traits. Wolf clans are often equated to Chechen teips (clans). Mythological There is one myth that the mythological founder of the Chechen nation, Turpalo-Noxchuo (Chechen Hero, who Chechens are descended from "like sparks of steel"), was raised by a fabled, loving "Wolf Mother". Old Chechen lore holds that the sheep was actually originally created for the wolf to enjoy, but man "stole" the sheep from the wolf (this i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tbilisi State University
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, tr; often shortened to its historical name, Tbilisi State University or TSU) is a public research university established on 8 February 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Excluding academies and theological seminaries, which have intermittently functioned in Georgia for centuries, TSU is the oldest university in Georgia and the Caucasus region. The total enrollment is over 23,500 students, and there are 5,000 faculty and staff members (collaborators) overall. The main founder of the university was a Georgian historian and academician, Ivane Javakhishvili. Among the co-founders were also several scientists, including Giorgi Akhvlediani, Shalva Nutsubidze, Dimitri Uznadze, Grigol Tsereteli, Akaki Shanidze, Andrea Razmadze, Korneli Kekelidze, Ioseb Kipshidze, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elguja Khintibidze
Elguja Khintibidze (born June 7, 1937) is a Georgian philologist, Doctor of Philological Sciences; professor at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; academician of The Georgian National Academy of Sciences; Member of Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale – S.I.E.P.M. Biography Khintibidze graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Tbilisi State University in 1960. At the moment he is head of the Institute of Georgian Literature at the Faculty of Humanities oTSUand president of the International Association for the Promotion of Georgian/Kartvelian Studies. He worked as Dean of the Faculty of Philology aTSU(1976–1986); deputy rector for scientific research aTSU(1986–1993) and head of the chair of old Georgian literature aTSU(2000–2006). The main field of Khintibidze's research is medieval Georgian literature and Georgian-Byzantine literary contacts, also especially Rustaveli studies and source studies. Khintibidze was editor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
