Sentence examples for collection of legends from inspiring English sources

Apadana ("Stories"), a collection of legends about Buddhist saints.

There's the picaresque figure in the collection of legends known as "The Little Flowers of St. Francis".

"The maker of images or pictures is the enemy of God": thus Muhammad is alleged to have spoken in the collection of legends and sayings called the Hadith.

Le Grain magique (1966; "The Magic Grain")—a collection of legends, short stories, songs, poems, and proverbs from the Kabyle, translated by her from Berber into French is perhaps her best-known work.

A popular explanation of the Shaivite form of this figure, as given in a collection of legends known as the Shiva-purana, is that the god Brahma created male beings and instructed them in turn to create others, but they were unable to do so.

The genealogy of the new Solomonic dynasty was published in the early 14th century in the Kebra negast ("Glory of the Kings"), a collection of legends that related the birth of Menilek I, associated Ethiopia with the Judeo-Christian tradition, and provided a basis for Ethiopian national unity through the Solomonic dynasty, Semitic culture, and the Amharic language.

Many Jatakas have parallels in the Mahabharata ("Great Epic of the Bharata Dynasty"), the Panca-tantra (animal fables), the Puranas (collections of legends), and elsewhere in non-Buddhist Indian literature.

It shares with the Hindu Puranas (encyclopaedic collections of legends and other lore) similarities of style as well as the concept of a divine being's earthly activities as "sport," or "play".

A proper study of the distribution of most aspects of mythology in the various Muslim areas has not been undertaken, since much of the popular material is rarely available in print or is written in less-known languages a good example is the extremely rich collections of legends and popular pious works in the Sindhi language.

The Argumenta are collections of legends about the Evangelists.

Less harsh than "4, 3, 2" -- almost nostalgic in some of its moments -- "Tales" is a collection of "urban legends" from the Ceausescu dictatorship.