"Barry Crimmins was this weird mythical force," Maron says.
Two 30 m high steel sculptures in Falkirk on the Forth and Clyde Canal, named The Kelpies, borrow the name of the mythical creature to associate with the strength and endurance of the horse; designed by sculptor Andy Scott, they were built as monuments to Scotland's horse-powered industrial heritage.
You can be Phoenix based on the mythical phoenix, or Aubrey which means "strength".
"Amazon feminists" celebrated the mythical female heroine and advocated liberation through physical strength.
Medieval alchemists, craving the boon of youth and desiring renewed health and strength, were kept busy searching for the mythical elixir of life, a universal medicine supposedly containing a recipe for rejuvenescence.
(Burke) ★ Royal Ballet of Cambodia (Friday and Saturday) Through the breathtaking delicacy, suppleness and strength of classical Khmer dance, this resplendent company recounts Cambodia's mythical origins in "The Legend of Apsara Mera," choreographed by Norodom Buppha Devi, princess and onetime culture minister of Cambodia.
(Burke) ★ Royal Ballet of Cambodia (Thursday through May 4) Through the breathtaking delicacy, suppleness and strength of classical Khmer dance, this resplendent company recounts Cambodia's mythical origins in "The Legend of Apsara Mera," choreographed by Norodom Buppha Devi, princess and onetime culture minister of Cambodia.
It is seen not as a threat to a mythical land that is monocultural and monoracial but as a boon to a nation that draws strength from diversity.
The Lakota believed that the mythical or spiritual elk, not the physical one, was the teacher of men and the embodiment of strength, sexual prowess and courage.
