In Holst's Planets Suite which was the bringer of old age?
"hymn ""I Vow to Thee, My Country""—despite Holst's full complicity. For ""Saturn"", Holst again used a previously-composed vocal piece, ""Dirge and Hymeneal"", as the basis for the movement, where repeated chords represent the relentless approach of old age. ""Uranus"", which follows, has elements of Berlioz's ""Symphonie fantastique"" and Dukas's ""The Sorcerer's Apprentice"", in its depiction of the magician who ""disappears in a whiff of smoke as the sonic impetus of the movement diminishes from fff to ppp in the space of a few bars"". ""Neptune"", the final movement, concludes with a wordless female chorus gradually receding, an effect which Warrack"
"Elders of the Universe and is close to his fellow Elder En Dwi Gast (the Grandmaster). He apparently came to self-awareness billions of years ago, on the planet Cygnus X-1. He is an enormously powerful being who wielded the Power Primordial and, though at first he took the appearance of an old human, his true form is a powerful alien. For millions of years, the Collector lived on an unknown world with his wife and child, spending his days in thought and contemplation. Over three billion years ago, when his wife, Matani Tivan, lost the will to live and relinquished"
"ages to more than eighty years. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart has the project evacuated and begins a hunt for the Master. The Doctor explains that Kronos is a ""chronovore"", a creature from outside time that feeds on it, attracted from the vortex to ancient Atlantis using a crystal trident larger than one seen to have been used by the Master. The Doctor suspects capturing the chronovore is the Master’s purpose, and that this represents a danger to the entire Universe. Meanwhile, Atlantean High Priest of Kronos, Krasis, is transported through interstitial time by the Master and brought to an office at the"
"become elderly. She tricks Fionn by asking him to fetch her golden ring from the lake, and he emerges as an old man with grey-white hair. His men, the Fianna, force her to give him a restorative potion from her cornucopia. Fionn's youth returns, but his hair does not return to its true colour. This is said to be the origin of his name, Fionn, meaning 'white'. In some versions of the tale, Milucra is revealed to be the Cailleach Bhéara (Calliagh Birra), an ancient goddess. The names of several features on the mountain refer to the Cailleach Bhéara. The"
"it has been suggested that he largely composed it himself. Elli is not mentioned in any other extant source but the notion that not even the gods are immune to the effects of aging is supported by the fact that they must consume the apples of Iðunn regularly to stay young. Elli In Norse mythology (a subset of Germanic mythology), Elli (Old Norse ""old age"") is a personification of old age who, in the ""Prose Edda"" book ""Gylfaginning"", defeats Thor in a wrestling match. In ""Gylfaginning"", Thor and his companions Loki and Þjálfi are in the hall of the giant"
"went on to have a long career in theatre, radio and television. Though Martha was the second-oldest character in the programme, 46-year-old Carol was given the part of the 64-year-old. Her relative youth compared with her co-stars was obscured by the character's wardrobe, with Martha normally wearing a hairnet, beret, spectacles, and an old mackintosh, all of which were provided by Carol who bought them second-hand in a jumble sale. Martha and Minnie were initially supporting characters, with their storylines revolving around Ena Sharples. Over time, they got stories of their own, notably Martha's attempts to affect a relationship with"
"is a ""mountain of trouble."" Hollis Woods - A 12-year-old foster girl who keeps moving from family to family and has the talent to draw which moves through the story with her adventures. The Regans - Old man, Izzy, and Steven. They want Hollis to be a part of her family even though she pushes them away. Josie - An elderly retired art teacher who adores Hollis. She develops Alzheimer's disease and Hollis must learn to be responsible and to protect her. Beatrice - Josie's cousin who she is very close to. She is also a retired art teacher like"
"become unbalanced and end the universe. The Elders believe since they are now immortal they would be the only beings in the universe to survive and would be supreme beings in the new universe. The plan, however, is thwarted by Galactus' Heralds the Silver Surfer and Nova. Galactus captures and consumes five of the Elders (Champion, Collector, Gardener, Grandmaster and Runner) but three other Elders (Astronomer, Possessor and Trader) are sucked into a black hole and pass through it into a mystical universe. Two Elders avoid the wrath of Galactus and his hunger, The Contemplater and the Obliterator. Both meet"
"unnamed old man, whom Ian and Barbara refer to as the Doctor, says that he and his granddaughter are wanderers in the fourth dimension, exiled from their own planet. Refusing to let Ian and Barbara leave, the Doctor sets the TARDIS in flight and ends up in the Stone Age. Za, the leader of a primitive Paleolithic tribe, attempts to make fire. A young woman called Hur warns him that if he fails to do so, the stranger called Kal will be made leader. After exiting the TARDIS, the Doctor is kidnapped by Kal, who witnesses him light a match."
"is the antagonist of ""Affliction"", raising an army of zombies and spreading a psychic-affliction that kills slowly to feed off the infected and gaining the ability to ""ride"" both the zombies and infected like Marmee Noir and the Traveler can vampires. Appearance: ""Bullet"" (spiritually only), ""Affliction"" Also known as ""the Earthmover,"" Mr. Oliver was a member of the Vampire Council and, to his knowledge, the oldest living vampire. Oliver was approximately 4 feet tall, with a sloping brow, absent chin, and expensively cut blow-dried hair. Because it was suggested that Oliver was member of the ""Homo erectus"" species, a pre-human"
"the relatively young biological age of 66, in 153 AG. Aang was survived by his wife, Katara, and his three children, but he did not live to see his grandchildren, all of whom would be powerful Airbenders. Prior to his death, Aang tasked the Order of the White Lotus with finding and guiding the new Avatar after him. When Aang died, the Avatar spirit reincarnated into the Southern Water Tribe female Korra. Aang intended for the Order to simply guide and guard Korra, but several mishaps in the aftermath of Aang's death (including a kidnapping attempt by the anarchist Zaheer)"
"own mortality, and decides he needs to name a successor. The Planet Express staff each expects one of them will be named, but Farnsworth reveals that his successor will be a 12-year-old clone of himself, Cubert Farnsworth. Cubert decides that being an inventor is not an appealing career choice. He makes cutting remarks about Farnsworth and his inventions, which include a time travel machine and a translator which turns words into an incomprehensible, dead language (French). A depressed Farnsworth makes a recording telling his crew that he has been lying about his age; he is actually 160, the age when"
"to age within their respective incarnations to what would appear to a human to be old age; both conflicts are suggested within the series to last hundreds if not thousands of Earth years. In ""The Daleks' Master Plan"", the First Doctor is able to resist the effects of the Time Destructor better than his companions, who are visibly aged by it; one of them, Sara Kingdom, ages to dust before the Destructor device can be reversed. The Fourth Doctor is briefly aged 500 years in ""The Leisure Hive"", leaving him an old man but still active. A similar situation occurred"
"take much more than they need, and they each lose eighty years. 78-year-old Grandma Georgina vanishes, having become ""-2"". Charlie and Mr Wonka journey to 'Minusland', then Mr. Wonka restores her with a sprayable compound that makes people older. Grandma Georgina has become 358 years old. Using a cautious dose, the three are restored to their original age. Finally, the President of the U.S. invites the family and Mr Wonka to the White House, as a thank you for their space rescue. A follow-up to the book was planned, called ""Charlie in the White House"". Charlie's family and Mr. Wonka"
"into the monster's arrival on Earth (though it should be noted that events of this telling of the story fundamentally invalidate any earlier versions, to the extent that tying them together becomes impossible). The monster had accidentally been bonded to Stanley by Stanley's demon-worshiping grandfather, also named Stanley Dover; Dover Sr. had summoned the Beast in order to use it to grant him immortality, but he had been roped into babysitting his grandson at the time he performed the ritual and the bond was transferred to the infant instead. Discovering the bond, the grandfather locked the younger Stanley in a"
"leaving the bay to search for his pod, he contacts several dolphins from other pods, who tell him the entire sea is in chaos, and that all marine creatures felt the storm. An orca tells Ecco to travel to the Arctic to find a blue whale named the ""Big Blue"", revered among marine mammals for its age and wisdom. Once Ecco finds him, the Big Blue tells him such storms have been occurring every 500 years and directs him to the Asterite, the oldest creature on Earth. He leaves the Arctic and travels to a deep cavern where he finds"
"Harlequin character featuring in Walter C. DeBill jr.'s ""He Who Comes at the Noontime"" (2006). See Haddath. The brightest star of Lyra constellation mentioned as the sidereal abode of unnamed furry aliens who visited the Earth in Paleocene Epoch. A planet in the ""twenty-third nebula"" and the supposed birthplace of Great Cthulhu. A black hole, home of the Great Old One ""Haiogh-Yai"". It is orbited by a dark planet hosting the monolith city of ""Thalu"", made of titanic blocks, and homeworld of the ""Voorlak"", lizard or leech-like servants of this mysterious entity. An alien planet orbiting a ""purple swollen Sun"""
"Mathew Littlest One/Gossamer: ""Littlest"" is the name of the young dream-giver at the beginning of the book. She is quite carefree, and is curious about everything. She gains the name ""Gossamer"" for her gossamer touch. The Old Woman : The old woman is an unnamed elderly woman that lives a lonely life with her dog, Toby. She decides to foster a young girl but gets a young boy named John instead. The old woman is less lonely when she is given good dreams. John: John is the young boy that Littlest and Thin Elderly receive as their assignment. He and"
"spread pestilence and foment those dark emotions where they did not already exist. Netosa was another of the Old Ones; its ""portfolio"" was that of darkness and death, and it kept sentient beings in never-ending, unreasoning fear of same to drink up the emotions that such terror generated. And Xy, greatest amongst their number, was the Great Old One of Power Incarnate, and fed upon the chaos and suffering brought by the other Old Ones as they conquered planets, galaxies, and entire dimensions in his name. These creatures, whose origins are unknown (and who may have, in fact, always existed),"
"how the aging universe continued expanding and its spacetime fabric weakened. With the galaxies burnt out, humanity dispersed across the cosmos, where they encountered the Typhon, an inexplicable entity that was destroying the decaying universe. It consumed matter and replaced space-time with emptiness and inconsistencies beyond the laws of physics. The resulting Chaos spread rapidly, driving some humans back to ancient Earth with its rekindled sun. In an attempt to fend off the approaching Typhon, leaders of the dying Earth sent for Polybiblios, a human living with the Shen, an ancient alien race. Polybiblios returned to Earth with his adopted"
"together they enter the system, where they are greeted by hundreds of thousands of space-adapted Ousters; they importune the ""Helix"" to save their civilization from an enormous and ancient harvester spaceship (which gathers food, air, and water), which visits every 57 years, and is so programmatically inflexible that it sees the Ouster and Templar settlements as infestations of the tree-ring, and attempts to cleanse it by eradicating them. Over the centuries, the colony's technological infrastructure has been steadily ground under by its assaults, and many die attacking or being attacked. A brief assay of the harvester's defenses (for the 57"
"Elder Thing The Elder Things (also known as the Old Ones and Elder Ones) are fictional extraterrestrials in the Cthulhu Mythos. The beings first appeared in H. P. Lovecraft's novella, ""At the Mountains of Madness"" (published in 1936, but written in 1931), and later appeared, although not named, in the short story ""The Dreams in the Witch-House"" (1933). Additional references to the Elder Things appear in Lovecraft's short story ""The Shadow Out of Time"" (1936). Description of a partial headless body: Six feet end to end, three and five-tenths feet central diameter, tapering to one foot at each end. Like"
"alone."" The Doctor tells his companion, Martha Jones, that the Face of Boe must be mistaken, but it is later revealed that there is indeed another Time Lord — the Master has survived the Time War. In the episode ""The End of the World"", the Face of Boe is described as a being of considerable influence in galactic circles and is identified as coming from the ""Silver Devastation"". In ""Bad Wolf"", set in the 2002nd century, he is said to be ""the oldest being in the Isop galaxy"" (the location of the planet Vortis in ""The Web Planet""). In ""The"
"H. P. Lovecraft. Despite their origins in Palladium Fantasy—the first and oldest of Palladium Books' Game Settings—they are hated and feared throughout the different dimensions of the Palladium Megaverse by those beings who remember them, even those beings who have great power and are evil themselves. The Old Ones' physical and mental natures were such that to pass the time (and to feed themselves), they each seized upon a specific aspect of pain and suffering to study, psychically feeding on the emotions and suffering that would follow. For example, Ya-blik was the symbol of pestilence, betrayal, and pain, and would"
"strange old man and hear Susan's voice coming from inside what appears to be a police box. Pushing their way inside, the two find that the exterior is camouflage for the dimensionally transcendental interior of the TARDIS. The old man, whom Susan calls ""Grandfather"", kidnaps Barbara and Ian to prevent them from telling anyone about the existence of the TARDIS, taking them on an adventure in time and space. The first Doctor, says cultural scholar John Paul Green, ""explicitly positioned the Doctor as grandfather to his companion Susan."" He wore long white hair and Edwardian costume, reflecting, Green says, a"
"Elders of the Universe The Elders of the Universe are a group of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Collector was the first Elder to appear, and featured in ""Avengers"" #28 (May 1966), but the idea that he was a member of a group known as the Elders was not introduced until ""Avengers"" #174 (August 1978). The Elders of the Universe are the last survivors of otherwise extinct races. Each discovered that they had potentially infinite lifespans, dependent on maintaining the will to continue living. They are thus known for their personal obsessions (such as"
"Old Hundredth (short story) ""Old Hundredth"" is a science fiction short story by British writer Brian Aldiss. It was first published in ""Airs of the Earth"" in 1963 and has been anthologised many times. It was included in ""The Golden Age of Science Fiction"". In the far distant future, the Moon has left Earth; Earth and Venus orbit each other. Humans have left Earth, but the planet is inhabited by a mixture of animals and Impures; intelligent creatures created by human experimenters on Venus. Dandi, a giant sloth-like creature, wanders the planet. She is the ward of, and mentally linked"
"him that they have been captured by the Great Collector and are part of his menagerie. Searching for the Arcturians, he meets more captive aliens and finally finds the Arcturian who now looks old and wizened. The Arcturian tells Valérian that what he saw outside his ship was just a projection of his mind. He goes on to say that he believes he can reverse the magnetic field that draws spaceships to the planet and keeps the cages locked using the magnetic field generator Valérian has brought although the process will kill him. Reluctantly, Valérian connects the Arcturian to the"
"Oaks' age is unknown, deLarava is seventy-six years old (but she often appears to be younger); both have been prolonging their lives by ingesting ghosts. There is a magical system surrounding these ghosts. In their digestible state, they are known as ""smokes"" or ""cigars"". Koot Hoomie Parganas has unwittingly ingested the ghost of Thomas Edison. However, because Kootie has not yet reached puberty, he is not able to digest it. In its undigested state, the ghost of Edison functions as a helper to Kootie. Because of Edison's powerful personality, this ghost is particularly sought after by both antagonists who wish"
"leaves, Kittridge enters Jameson's study and finds him bleeding, but seemingly at peace. Jameson rapidly ages and collapses on the floor. Susanna enters the house. Kittridge tries to stop her from seeing the aged Jameson, saying only that he is gone. He is unable to keep her out of the room, but inside she discovers only an empty suit of clothes with a white substance near the collar and sleeves. When Susanna asks what is on the floor, the professor replies, ""Dust, only dust."" The scenes of Walter Jameson's aging was performed by using an old movie-making trick. Age lines"
"the Elder Gods (actually extra-dimensional demonic entities). He forged a pact with them enabling them to cross the barrier to our dimension using a pentagonal arrangement of five Bloodstones. In return, Belasco was granted immortality and immense mystical power. He was also given a demonic appearance, as he was intended to form a new race of Earth-dwelling demons. To this end, he kidnapped Bice ""Beatrice"" dei Portinari, beloved of Dante, to give birth to the first of this new race. He fled with her to the Atlantean isle of Pangea, where the Elder Gods directed him to Mt. Flavius, where"
"and can use it to fight and defeat the Cherubim. During the Elements' first sortie against the Cherubim by uniting the Vectors into a formation of Aquarion, they stumble on 13-year-old Apollo, who seems to be the reincarnation of Apollonius. They become convinced of this when he single-handedly takes control of the Vector Sol, unites the Vectors into the Solar Aquarion formation and defeats the enemy, thus causing him to be recruited by DEAVA to join their ranks. Age of Aquarius, also known as the Aquarian Age, was a concept popularized by Carl Gustav Jung. The Age of Aquarius was"
"which causes him to age prematurely. At his lair on an abandoned oil-rig (which he shares with the scientist's other creations: six childish clones, a dwarf named Martha, and a brain in a vat named Irvin), he uses a dream-extracting machine to steal dreams from children. The children are kidnapped for him from a nearby port city by a cyborg cult called the Cyclops, who in exchange he supplies with mechanical eyes and ears. Among the kidnapped is Denree (Joseph Lucien), the adopted little brother of carnival strongman One (Ron Perlman). After the carnival manager is stabbed by a mugger,"