National personificationA national personification is an anthropomorphicpersonification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda. In the first personifications in the Western World, warrior deities or figures symbolizing wisdom were used (for example the goddess Athena in ancient Greece), to indicate the strength and power of the nation. Some personifications in the Western world often took the Latin name of the ancient Roman province.
Personifications of deathPersonifications of death are found in many religions and mythologies. In more modern stories, a character known as the Grim Reaper (usually depicted as a skeleton wielding a scythe) causes the victim's death by coming to collect that person's soul.
Deities and personifications of seasonsThere are a number of deities and personifications associated with seasons in various mythologies, traditions, and fiction.
Cardinal virtuesVirtues of mind and character An image personifying the four virtues (Ballet Comique de la Reine, 1582) The cardinal virtues are four virtues of mind and character in classical philosophy. They are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. They form a virtue theory of ethics. The term cardinal comes from the Latin cardo (hinge); these four virtues are called "cardinal" because all other virtues fall under them and hinge upon them.
Classical elementThe classical elements typically refer to earth, water, fire, air, and (later) aether which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances. Ancient cultures in Greece, Angola, Tibet, India, and Mali had similar lists which sometimes referred, in local languages, to "air" as "wind", and to "aether" as "space".
ContinentA continent is any of several large terrestrial geographical regions. Continents are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria. A continent could be a single large landmass, a landmass and nearby islands either on or beyond its continental shelf, or a part of a larger landmass, as in the case of Asia and Europe within Eurasia. Due to these varying definitions, the number of continents varies, up to seven or as few as four.
Literary deviceA literary device, literary technique, figure of speech, rhetorical device, stylistic device, or trope is any strategy of using language that a writer or speaker employs to deliberately achieve some purpose. This purpose is typically: to focus or guide the audience's attention, to make the language or its content memorable, or to evoke a particular emotional, rational, aesthetic, or other response.
Seven deadly sinsSet of vices in Christian theology Hieronymus Bosch's The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things The Holy Spirit and the Seven Deadly Sins. Folio from Walters manuscript W.171 (15th century) The seven deadly sins (also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins) function as a grouping of major vices within the teachings of Christianity.
AnemoiGroup of Greek gods Wind rose of ancient Greece, created by the scholar Adamantios Korais around 1796 In ancient Greek religion and myth, the Anemoi (Ancient Greek: Ἄνεμοι, lit. 'Winds') were wind gods who were each ascribed a cardinal direction from which their respective winds came (see Classical compass winds), and were each associated with various nature, seasons and weather conditions.
The artsThe arts, or creative arts, are a vast range of human practices involving creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thought, deeds, and existence in an extensive range of media. Both a dynamic and characteristically constant feature of human life, the arts have developed into increasingly stylized and intricate forms.
AbstractionAbstraction is the process of generalizing rules and concepts from specific examples, literal (real or concrete) signifiers, first principles, or other methods. The result of the process, an abstraction, is a concept that acts as a common noun for all subordinate concepts and connects any related concepts as a group, field or category. Abstractions and levels of abstraction play an important role in the theory of general semantics originated by Alfred Korzybski.
SensePhysiological capacitySensation consists of signal collection and transduction.The five major senses that most higher organisms have are: Sight (vision), Hearing (audition), Smell (Olfaction), Touch (Somatosensation), and Taste (Gustation).A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli.
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