1.   Less than two miles south of the pit is the great sandstone massif of Mount Brockman, home of Dadbe, the Rainbow Serpent, a mythical ancestor.

2.   The show at the Met focuses on fragments from another frieze, which tells the story of Telephos, the mythical ancestor of the Pergamene kings.

3.   From the darkness appears Mera, a mythical ancestor of Cambodians, flanked by two other dancers dressed in ornate costumes of silk and gold.

4.   He was accompanied by nine ministers, including Hashimoto and Takemura, to the temple which enshrines Amaterasu Omikami, the mythical ancestor of the Japanese emperor.