Word: warriorism
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...role of the divine in Homer, Moore stated, "is to bring to a man magical adventures or magical harm which belong to him." For example, Apollo breathes courage into the warrior and guides his spear to the mark...
Show of Hands. Mahendra, 41, revered as a reincarnation of Vishnu and also known as King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior, Divine Emperor, ascended his throne in 1955. It had been secured for him by his father, who four years earlier toppled the prolific and powerful Rana family, which had ruled Nepal for a century. The young King was filled with democratic good intentions. A poet as well as a pragmatic politician, he personally edited a constitution for his 9,000,000 people (91 % illiterate) and gave his consent to Nepal's first national election...
...Attic, by Richard Hughes. A trenchant novel about Europe's sickness between two World Wars, contrasting a victorious England in need of no new God with a defeated Germany in search of the sinister old warrior-deities...
...Attic, by Richard Hughes. A trenchant novel about Europe's sickness between two World Wars, contrasting a victorious England in need of no new God with a defeated Germany in search of the sinister old warrior-deities...
...Attic, by Richard Hughes. A trenchant parable of Europe's sickness between two World Wars, contrasting a victorious England in need of no new God with a defeated Germany in search of the sinister old warrior-deities...