It pushes the story all the way back to its original 1847 incarnation and then beyond, up-river, into primordial sludge.
Come for the mythical North American mega-ape, stay for the deep gorges, primordial forests, granite-lined lakes, soaring eagles and frolicking river otters that too few people get to enjoy. .
During the struggle, drops of the elixir fell on the Kumbh Mela's four earthly sites, and the rivers are believed to turn back into that primordial nectar at the climactic moment of each, giving pilgrims the chance to bathe in the essence of purity, auspiciousness, and immortality.
BOSTON — When the leadership at Old South Church decided it was time to fix up their home, they turned to a fund-raising option most likely available only to a Colonial-era institution like this one, founded in this city's primordial hinterlands: selling a copy of a rare psalmbook, printed across the river in Cambridge in 1640, that could fetch up to $20 million at auction.
In particular, they suggest that the isotope ratios are the signature of microbes that colonized the shores of the primordial ocean and found a way to make an opportunistic living from the incoming river sediments.
For the religiously-minded, it is a commemoration of a primordial scene in the Christian drama: the moment when Jesus was baptised in the river Jordan, with a dove flying overhead to represent the Holy Spirit, and the voice of God the Father declaring Himself "well pleased" with His progeny.
During the orchestral prologue, quietly primordial music that evokes the endless flowing of time and the undulant currents of the river, it was hard to believe the amount of variety, detail and nuance that Mr. Levine drew from what are essentially 136 bars of a sustained E flat major tonality.
In some primordial past, when ancestral protohumans first dropped out of the trees, it seems likely that they followed a river out of the woods and onto the plains.
Innovation is primordial.
The waterfall is primordial.
