Eight Immortals – Mythopedia
2022年12月1日 — The Eight Immortals also make an appearance in the X-Men universe to protect China from the evil mutant, Xorn. In the Marvel Comic book series, The Immortal Iron Fist, there are eight extra-dimensional kung-fu masters called the “Eight Immortal Weapons” (based off of the Ba Xian) that appear to protect the Earth in times of need.
Chinese Gods - Mythopedia
2022年11月29日 — The pantheon of Chinese gods and goddesses is extensive, spanning thousands of years as well as different ethnic groups and changing geographical boundaries. Some of the most enduring deities are Pangu, the Jade Emperor, Guanyin, Sun Wukong, and the Eight Immortals.
Chinese Mythology – Mythopedia
The pantheon of Chinese gods and goddesses is extensive, spanning thousands of years as well as different ethnic groups and changing geographical boundaries. Some of the most enduring deities are Pangu, the Jade Emperor, Guanyin, Sun Wukong, and the Eight Immortals.
Chang’e - Mythopedia
2022年11月29日 — One day, a skilled archer named Hou Yi (后羿) decided that enough was enough. He raised his bow to the heavens and shot down nine of the ten suns. To reward him for his heroic deeds, the goddess Xiwangmu (西王母) gave him an elixir of immortality, a prize typically reserved for immortals who had achieved enlightenment.
Phoebe - Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 — Greek. Hesiod (eighth/seventh century BCE): Phoebe’s genealogy is outlined in the Theogony.. Aeschylus (ca. 525/524 BCE–456/455 BCE): In the first lines of the tragedy Eumenides, Phoebe is said to have been the one who gave the oracle at Delphi to Apollo.
Seven Lucky Gods - Mythopedia
2022年11月29日 — The Seven Lucky Gods are a group of traveling deities who bring luck and good fortune to the people of Japan. They meet on the New Year and travel across the sky in a treasure-laden shi
Iliad: Book 2 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Now pleasing sleep had seal’d each mortal eye, Stretch’d in the tents the Grecian leaders lie: The immortals slumber’d on their thrones above; All, but the ever-wakeful eyes of Jove. To honour Thetis’ son he bends his care, And plunge the Greeks in all the woes of war: Then bids an empty phantom rise to sight, And thus commands the ...
Greek Mythology - Mythopedia
The vast pantheon of immortals who ruled the Greek world. The Greek gods ruled over every aspect of Hellenic existence—from war to love, from childbirth to the afterlife. Commonly depicted in human form, they were capricious deities who demanded worship and sacrifice to stave off misfortune and ruin.
Homeric Hymns: 5. To Aphrodite (Full Text) - Mythopedia
They rank neither with mortals nor with immortals: long indeed do they live, eating heavenly food and treading the lovely dance among the immortals, and with them the Sileni and the sharp-eyed Slayer of Argus mate in the depths of pleasant caves; but at their birth pines or high-topped oaks spring up with them upon the fruitful earth, beautiful ...
Greek Gods - Mythopedia
The twelve Olympians consist of most of the major gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon. Immortals who ruled their human subjects from on high, they were constantly fighting, fooling, and having affairs with each other, often with dire consequences.