While turning a blind eye to the monarch and his elite's political authoritarianism, financial corruption, and subordination to American diktats, these divine warriors turn their muscle on women instead.
It would, I felt, be a little like meeting Homer… Writer discusses two especially popular epics, one about Pabuji, a semi-divine warrior, and one about Dev Narayan, the son of a cattle herder named Sawai Bhoj.
The Egyptian pharaoh was represented, in his divine capacity as warrior, in larger-than-life dimensions (see photograph).
As a conversation between the warrior Arjuna and his divine guide and charioteer Krishna, the Gita shows humans the path to self-actualization.
The lyrics mused over the tension and fusion of opposites, the shifting equilibrium of ideologues and warriors, of human and divine, and especially of lovers.
"Refer to teenagers who get arrested for racist Twitter posts as 'eternally noble warriors bravely fighting for divine war to protect the blood heritage of our sacred ancestors'. . . .
What she would love to see, she writes, is a "new masculine revolution … a new generation of men, not warriors, not armed, not threatening divine punishment, not violent, but men who possess a strong sense of progress and justice".
The Ninevite version of the epic begins with a prologue in praise of Gilgamesh, part divine and part human, the great builder and warrior, knower of all things on land and sea.
Two invasion attempts by the Mongols in 1274 and 1281 were thwarted by Japanese warriors with the aid of the "divine wind" (kamikaze) of typhoons that decimated the enemy fleet.
The new king, Creon (Paul O'Brien), has forbidden burial rites to the traitor, but Antigone (Rebekah Brockman), the warrior's sister, performs them anyway, claiming divine justice over that of the state.
