fitness, opportunity, time

Their New World Translation of the Bible uses the phrase “torture stake” to translate the Greek word σταυρός (stauros) and the term “stake” to translate the Greek word ξύλον (xylon) at Matthew 27:40, Mark 15:30, Luke 23:26, and 1 Peter 2:24-25.

Bullinger’s Companion Bible glossed stauros as “an upright pale or stake”, interpreting crucifixion as “hung upon a stake … The σταυρός (stauros) was simply an upright pale or stake to which Romans nailed those who were thus said to be crucified, σταυρόω, merely means to drive stakes.

Filters. An upright stake on which people were nailed to be executed, especially that used to execute Jesus Christ according to the beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

diakonos

In the Homeric poems Moira or Aisa are related to the limit and end of life, and Zeus appears as the guider of destiny. In the Theogony of Hesiod, the three Moirai are personified, daughters of Nyx and are acting over the gods. Later they are daughters of Zeus and Themis, who was the embodiment of divine order and law.

Kali, (Sanskrit: “She Who Is Black” or “She Who Is Death”) in Hinduism, goddess of time, doomsday, and death, or the black goddess (the feminine form of Sanskrit kala, “time-doomsday-death” or “black”).

428,899 CE

Kali retreated to the citadel of his capital city of Vishasha where he discovered his body had been mortally stabbed and burned during his battle with the two devas.