A microburst is an intense small-scale downdraft produced by a thunderstorm or rain shower. There are two types of microbursts: wet microbursts and dry microbursts. They go through three stages in their cycle, the downburst, outburst, and cushion stages.[1]
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An Aeolian harp (also wind harp) is a musical instrument that is played by the wind. Named for Aeolus, the ancient Greek god of the wind, the traditional Aeolian harp is essentially a wooden box including a sounding board, with strings stretched lengthwise across two bridges. It is often placed in a slightly opened window where the wind can blow across the strings to produce sounds. The strings can be made of different materials (or thicknesses) and all be tuned to the same pitch, or identical strings can be tuned to different pitches. Besides being the only strung instrument played solely by the wind, the Aeolian harp is the only stringed instrument that plays solely harmonic frequencies.
Source: Aeolian harp – Wikipedia
The Seven Sages are a group of individuals destined to aid a chosen hero in times of crisis; as such, they possess varying magical powers and responsibilities. Each era has its own group of sages, and those groups often aid Link in different ways (though only after they are rescued).
The Seven Sages (originally called “Wise Men”) are first mentioned in A Link to the Past. The in-game story reveals that during the great Imprisoning War fought between the evil Ganon and the Knights of Hyrule, the Seven Sages combined their powers to banish the wicked sorcerer and seal him in the Sacred Realm; Ganon’s corrupt heart then warped that region into the Dark World. After a few centuries, the wizard Agahnim appeared and placed spells on the King of Hyrule and his knights, bringing them under his control. Agahnim gathered the Seven Maidens—the descendants of the original Sages–including Princess Zelda herself—and leached from their power to break the seal to the Dark World to resurrect Ganon. Link, after defeating Agahnim, journeyed across the Dark World to free the Seven Maidens, who used their combined strength to open the way to Ganon’s Tower, the final dungeon of the game. After defeating Ganon and making a just wish on the Triforce, Link returned the Maidens to the Light World.
Depicted above is an 8th century TCE medieval Pentarch naturo-graphic world map, or mappa mundi which depicts the five lands known to peoples of this time on the back of a sand dollar, a revered natural object common to the shores of these lands: Kremel, Ner, Ablem, Seftar and Magino. The map was not intended to accurately represent geographic positions of land-masses, but to describe the spiritual harmony of their cosmos, which they believed the humble sand dollar signified.
In order of importance, Kremel contained the bulk of human settlements in this time period, followed by the desert cities of Ner, and the sparsely populated far reaches of Ablem. Seftar, in fact, by this time period had long-since been obliterated in the shockwave caused by the fall of Elgorrah (itself here depicted as a void). And the so-called land of Magino was not actually a land-mass at all, but represented the cloudy domain of the Sky Lords, which the Kremellians still viewed with magico-mythic reverence.
As can be seen in the orientation of the map, in addition to the four cardinal points of Classical culture, Kremellians were unique in that they also recognized a legendary fifth direction, epigraphically represented here as Buorthus (or variously simply ‘Buorth’). It was believed that sailors who set out in the direction of Buorth would be able to pass over the Sea Gate into the hidden realm of Magino.
Esoterically speaking, the Kremello-Seftar sand dollar conception of the universe contained not only an obverse face, depicted above, but also a reverse or under-side, reconstructed from partial sources in the figure below:
It was said that while the top-side of the sand dollar depicted each land-mass as a separate entity, the reverse showed the truth that they were all simply currents emanating from the same shared source. Though Kremellian mythology lacked a formal understanding of the Hypogeum, it is thought that this esoteric cartographic reading was a reflection of early Quatrian Four Ships culture.
Obverse and its opposite, reverse, refer to the two flat faces of coins and some other two-sided objects, including paper money, flags, seals, medals, drawings, old master prints and other works of art, and printed fabrics. In this usage, obverse means the front face of the object and reverse means the back face. The obverse of a coin is commonly called heads, because it often depicts the head of a prominent person, and the reverse tails.
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From Middle English Charlewayn, from Old English carles wǣn, apparently from a common Proto-Germanic *karlas wagnaz (cognate with forms in other Germanic languages). It seems that this common Germanic name originally meant the ‘peasant’s wagon’ (the churls’ wagon) in contrast to the ‘woman’s wagon’ (Ursa Minor). Later it was interpreted as ‘Charles’s wagon’ and associated with Charlemagne.
Source: Charles’ Wain – Wiktionary
As it is traditionally depicted, the group wished to escape the intrigues, corruption and stifling atmosphere of court life during the politically fraught Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. They gathered in a bamboo grove near the house of Ji Kang in Shanyang (now in Henan province) where they enjoyed, and praised in their works, the simple, rustic life. This was contrasted with the politics of court. The Seven Sages stressed the enjoyment of alcoholic beverages, personal freedom, spontaneity and a celebration of nature.
In observational astronomy, an asterism is a popularly-known pattern or group of stars that can be seen in the night sky. This colloquial definition[a] makes it appear quite similar to a constellation,[1] but they differ mostly in that a constellation is an officially recognized area of the sky, while an asterism is a visually obvious collection of stars and the lines used to mentally connect them; as such, asterisms do not have officially determined boundaries and are therefore a more general concept which may refer to any identified pattern of stars. This distinction between terms remains somewhat inconsistent, varying among published sources. An asterism may be understood as an informal group of stars within the area of an official or defunct former constellation.[2] Some include stars from more than one constellation.
Source: Asterism (astronomy) – Wikipedia
Doriath is a forest realm of the Sindar in Beleriand ruled by King Thingol and his queen Melian. It serves as a principal stage for the stories of the First Age, such as The Tale of Beren and Lúthien from The Lays of Beleriand, and parts of The Children of Húrin and The Silmarillion. It is called the “Fenced Land” because of a girdle of enchantment Melian put about it, allowing none to enter the kingdom without her leave or Thingol’s.
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The orientation of a map is the relationship between the directions on the map and the corresponding compass directions in reality. The word “orient” is derived from Latin oriens, meaning east. In the Middle Ages many maps, including the T and O maps, were drawn with east at the top (meaning that the direction “up” on the map corresponds to East on the compass).
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