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2 unusual facts about immortality


Bengi

Compared to Bengü, Bengi has an additional meaning: "a mythical water which gives a person immortal life".

Seventh-day Adventist theology

(a) conditional immortality (or conditionalism), as opposed to the immortality of the soul; and


Amrita

Amrita features in the "ocean-churning" Samudra manthan legend, which describes how the devas, because of a curse from the sage Durvasa, begin to lose their immortality.

Amrut

Amrut or Amrita, a Sanskrit word that literally means "immortality", and is often referred to in texts as nectar

Arthur Somervell

He achieved success in his own day as a composer of choral works such as The Forsaken Merman (1895), Intimations of Immortality (which he conducted at Leeds Festival in 1907), and The Passion of Christ (1914) but is now chiefly remembered for his song cycles such as Maud (after Tennyson, 1898) and the first known setting (1904) of A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad.

Bharthari

When Bhartrhari was king of 'Ujjayani' (modern day Ujjain) in his state there lived a Brahman who after years of austerities was given, the fruit of immortality, from the celestial tree of Kalpavriksha.

Code: Selfish

According to keyboard player Dave Bush, the song "Immortality" was partly inspired by Milan Kundera's 1990 novel of the same name.

Crown of Immortality

The preface to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem The Revolt of Islam contain: Should the public judge that my composition is worthless, I shall indeed bow before the tribunal from which Milton received his crown of immortality....

The crown of stars, representing immortality, may derive from the story of Ariadne, especially as told by Ovid, in which the unhappy Ariadne is turned into a constellation of stars, the Corona Borealis (Crown of the North), modelled on a jewelled crown she wore, and thus becoming immortal.

The first use of the crown of stars as an allegorical Crown of Immortality may be the ceiling fresco, Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power (1633–39), in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome by Pietro da Cortona.

Element Girl

Death stated that she could not personally help Blackwell, since Blackwell's immortality and powers had originated from the sun god Ra.

Father was a Fullback

Actress Betty Lynn would achieve immortality almost ten years after making Father was a Fullback as Thelma Lou, Barney Fife's girlfriend in The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968).

Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior

The First Emperor searches for the elixir of immortality, and he despatches 500 teenage boys and girls to help him accomplish this task.

Foundation's Fear

For example, Seldon suggests a decree that erases terrorists' names from records, denying them immortality, discouraging chaotic actions.

Gaokerena

In Persian and Iranian legends, the mighty Gaokerena was a mythic Haoma plant that had healing properties when eaten and gave immortality to the resurrected bodies of the dead.

Gerald Guterman

"Secular Immortality and the American Ideology of Affluence," The Journal of Consumer Research, Vol.

Glory of Heracles

The player names and assumes the role of the silent protagonist, an immortal, amnesiac boy who is accompanied by the characters Leucos, Axios, Heracles and Eris on their journey to remember their pasts and to discover why they are immortal.

Iskul Bukol 20 Years After

Vic Ungasis (Sotto) is an archaeologist who has recovered the Kali of Humabon and is looking for a partner sword, the Kampilan of Lapu-Lapu, plus the Peseta, one of Judas Iscariot's 30 pieces of silver which reportedly gives the bearer immortality.

Kalava

Another legend has it that Lord Vishnu during his incarnation as Vamana tied a red thread on the hands of King Bali to grant him immortality and to rule the netherworld.

Mage: The Awakening

Tremere Liches: A Left-Handed Legacy of Liches who consume the souls of others in exchange for immortality and power.

Mawangdui

In heaven we can see Chinese deities such as Nuwa and Chang'e, as well as Daoist symbols such as cranes (representing immortality).

Metamorphosis Odyssey

The story begins with an immortal mystic named Aknaton, whose Osirosian race was the ancestor of all humanoid life in the Milky Way galaxy.

Mordad

The name "Mordad" derives from Middle Persian "Amurdad" from Avestan 'Ameretat', the Zoroastrian divinity of "immortality", and under whose protection the month stands.

Multivac

Both Frank J. Tipler in his 1994 Omega Point Theory, and Ray Kurzweil in his 2005 book The Singularity is Near, have suggested that the human race will soon (by the mid 21st century) evolve into transhuman immortal humanoid robots which will work to eventually turn the entire universe into a gigantic supercomputer.

Murudeshwar

The Lanka King Ravana wanted to attain immortality by obtaining the Atma-Linga (Soul of Shiva).

Nanabhoy Palkhivala

He was however a firm opponent of politically motivated constitutional amendments (His favourite quotation was from Joseph Story, who said: "The Constitution has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, the people.").

NeverDead

The player controls a wisecracking human demon hunter named Bryce, who was cursed with immortality five hundred years ago by the demon king Astaroth.

A wisecracking demon hunter who was cursed with immortality five centuries ago by Astaroth after he witnessed the brutal murder of his wife at the hands of the aforementioned demon king.

Odic force

2010: The villainous fictional version of Thomas Edison who appears in Atomic Robo comic books is obsessed with harnessing the Odic force (via direct current) to unlock the secret of immortality.

Santry

In 1581 the lands and title of Santry were awarded to William Nugent who then lost it after falling out of favour with the Legate Kane because of his onjection to Kane's policy of immortality .

Tale of King Mu, Son of Heaven

He was determined to visit the Western heavenly paradise of Xi Wangmu, the Queen Mother of the West on the Kunlun Mountain and taste her peaches of immortality.

Vasuki

In this legend, Vasuki allowed the devas (gods) and the asuras (demons) to bind him to Mount Mandara and use him as their churning rope to extract the ambrosia of immortality from the ocean of milk.

Warren Kinsella

Their songs "Barney Rubble Is My Double" and "Invasion of the Tribbles" have been performed by The Evaporators and Palma Violets respectively, and Damian Abraham of Fucked Up has been quoted as saying that he wants the Nasties' "Secret of Immortality" played at his funeral.

Xiaying Xianzong

Set in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the story is adapted from Ge Hong's Shenxian Zhuan (神仙傳; Chronicles of Immortals) and tells the adventures of Huang Chuming before he attained immortality and became widely known as Wong Tai Sin.


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