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Fireboy and Watergirl (stylized as Fireboy & Watergirl) is a puzzle-platform video game series created by indie game developer Oslo Albet in 2009. The first five games in the series were released on the now defunct software platform Adobe Flash but can still be played on the online web portal Cool Math Games as they were converted to HTML5 .
Following the massacre, the Buddha predicts that King Virudhaka will die in fire in seven days. Upon hearing about this, King Virudhaka builds a house on the water to live on for seven days. On the last day, a fire starts from sunlight hitting a magnifying glass on a cushion and burns down the house, killing King Virudhaka. [65] [72]
The Blue Bird is a 1940 American fantasy film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Walter Bullock was adapted from the 1908 play of the same name by Maurice Maeterlinck. Intended as 20th Century Fox 's answer to MGM 's The Wizard of Oz, which had been released the previous year, it was filmed in Technicolor and tells the story of a ...
t. e. Enkidu ( Sumerian: 𒂗𒆠𒄭 EN.KI.DU10) [ 6] was a legendary figure in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, wartime comrade and friend of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Their exploits were composed in Sumerian poems and in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, written during the 2nd millennium BC. He is the oldest literary representation of the wild ...
Paro Taktsang ( Dzongkha: སྤ་གྲོ་སྟག་ཚང་, also known as the Taktsang Palphug Monastery and the Tiger's Nest ), [ 1] is a sacred Vajrayana Himalayan Buddhist site located in the cliffside of the upper Paro valley in Bhutan. It is one of thirteen Tiger's Nest caves in historical Tibet in which Padmasambhava practiced ...
Jwala/Jwala Ji (Pahari: जवाला जी, Punjabi: ਜਵਾਲਾ ਜੀ, Hindi: ज्वाला जी) is a Hindu goddess.The physical manifestation of Jwala is always a set of eternal flames, [4] and the term Jvala means flame in Sanskrit (cognates: proto-Indo-European guelh, English: glow, Lithuanian: zvilti) [5] and ji is an honorific used in the Indian subcontinent.
Draupadi ( Sanskrit: द्रौपदी, romanized : draupadī, lit. 'Daughter of Drupada '), also referred to as Krishnā, Panchali, and Yajnaseni, was the queen of ancient Kuru Kingdom, and the eldest wife of Kuru King Yudhishthira, along with his four brothers (Pandava)— Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. [ 1] Her life story is ...
Nüwa, also read Nügua, is a mother goddess, culture hero, [ 1] and/or member of the Three Sovereigns of Chinese mythology. She is a goddess in Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. [ 2] She is credited with creating humanity and repairing the Pillar of Heaven. [ 3]