Sentence examples for lightning bird from inspiring English sources
noun
A mythological creature in South African tribal folklore: a large, vampiric, black and white bird that can summon thunder and lightning and is said to consume blood and to seduce women in the form of a man.
"Lightning Bird" is one of the six newest pieces on display.
Mr. O'Rourke had upbeat moments, like a clip-clopping country song, "Yellow Moon," and the briskly strummed "Lightning Bird Wind River Man," with the singer envisioning himself as prodigies of nature.
Of the 50 species that make the journey, the best loved are swallows.Known by an array of magical names golodrina in Spain, the bird that thaws the snow; svala in Sweden, to console; and in Africa inkonjani, the lightning bird, nyankalema, the bird that never gets tired, or giri giri, a magical charm swallows have lived alongside humans for thousands of years.
The applied practices were Coding Dojo [56], whole-class retrospectives, and other meaningful dynamics commonly used in agile methods conferences, known as Lightning talks4, Birds of a feather sessions5, Starfish diagrams6, Brainwriting7, and workshops.
That, like the thunder, the lightning, the birds taking refuge in the trees, I was His creation and that it was all constantly unfolded, rolled into motion and kept in existence by an act of Will that was not by any means mine.
In other traditions, natural phenomena are associated with the actions of certain species (e.g., wind as a bird, lightning as a snake), and the god who controls such phenomena is identified with the species.
Ice flashover, lightning flashover and bird damage are the main reasons that cause transmission facility failure.
Disasters such as ice storm, lightning storm and bird migration have significant impact on the power system risk level.
Ning Zhang, Chongqing Kang et al develop a framework for assessing the mid-short-term risk of power system operation considering the impacts of the external environment such as ice flashover, lightning flashover and bird damage.
However, on such time horizon the probability of harmful disasters, such as ice storm, lightning storm and bird migration could be forecasted, since these disasters have strong seasonal regularities.
Why has the bird got lightning in its beak?
