"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Lineage segment within an Indian caste, indicating common descent from a mythical ancestor.
- Tuisto (Tuisco) - the mythical ancestor of all Germanic tribes.
- Phlegyas was the mythical ancestor of the Phlegyans.
- Both of these deities were considered to be the mythical ancestors of the K'iche' nobility by direct male line.
- (Here "the Sacred" can be God, gods, mythical ancestors, or any other beings who established the world's structure.)
- They take their name from a mythical ancestor known as Con Mhac "hound son".
- Eliade argues that religion is based on a sharp distinction between the sacred (God, gods, mythical ancestors, etc.) and the profane.
- By extension, the Trojans were adopted as the mythical ancestors of the Roman people.
- It has been proposed that Achaemenes may merely have been a "mythical ancestor of the Persian royal house".
- They take their name from a mythical ancestor known as Conmac.
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