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One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes.
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Pertaining to boxing, or to encounters with the fists; puglistic; as, fistic exploits; fistic heroes.
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The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.
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The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.
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Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
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The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle.
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One who treats of heroes.
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Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany.
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The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes.
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One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.
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Large; strong; -- from the gigantic bones shown at Roncesvalles, and alleged to be those of old heroes.
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Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.
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Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.
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One of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful, who presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain, and who also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla.
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One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds.
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A heroine.
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