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Passages similar to: Bundahishn — Chapter XIV
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Bundahishn
Chapter XIV (5)
A thousand days and nights they were without eating, and first water and afterwards herbage (aûrvar) were devoured by them.
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
V. Christ's Long Fast in the Wilderness—satan's Futile Wiles (2)
In those days he did eat nothing. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was a hungered.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XLII (14)
And the people of Egypt fed themselves thereon during the first year of their famine.
Popol Vuh
Part IV, Chapter 11 (5)
Neither had they women to sleep with, but they remained alone, fasting. They were in the House of God, all day they prayed, burning incense and...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (3)
When a man is thus said to be hungry, water is carrying away (digests) what has been eaten by him. Therefore as they speak of a cow-leader (go-nâya), ...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XC (4)
And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only...
Book of Enoch
Chapter CVIII (9)
Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food, but regarded everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly, and the Lord...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 7 (2)
Svetaketu abstained from food for fifteen days. Then he came to his father and said: 'What shall I say?' The father said: 'Repeat the Rik, Yagus, and...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXII (7)
Then said: "More thoughtful Mary was of making The marriage feast complete and honourable, Than of her mouth which now for you responds; And for...
Popol Vuh
Part III, Chapter 10 (6)
The symbols of each one were there where they had been placed on the top of the mountain. But they [the priests] did not live in their houses by day,...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (342)
Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare; held in fetters and bonds, they undergo pain for a long time, again and again.
Popol Vuh
Part IV, Chapter 11 (9)
Thus [spoke] the lords, while within, the nine men fasted, the thirteen men, and the seventeen men. During the day they fasted and their hearts...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 7 (1)
Abstain from food for fifteen days, but drink as much water as you like, for breath comes from water, and will not be cut off, if you drink water.'...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 5 (1.5.1)
When the Father produced by intellect And austenty seven kinds of food, One of his [foods] was common to all, Of two he let the gods partake, Three...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (335)
Whomsoever this fierce thirst overcomes, full of poison, in this world, his sufferings increase like the abounding Bîrana grass.
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (28)
But the sheep escaped from that water and went forth into a wilderness, where there was no water and no grass; and they began to open their eyes and t...
Popol Vuh
Part IV, Chapter 11 (4)
And this was in recognition of their having been created, and in recognition of their having been given their kingdoms. They fasted a long time and ma...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 2 (1.2.1)
In the beginning nothing whatsoever was here. This [world] was covered over with death, with hunger — for hunger is death. Then he made up his mind...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet XI (7)
No one could see his fellow, they could not recognize each other in the torrent. The gods were frightened by the Flood, and retreated, ascending to...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet VI (6)
Anu addressed princess Ishtar, saying: "If you demand the Bull of Heaven from me, there will be seven years of empty husks for the land of Uruk. Have ...
Popol Vuh
Part III, Chapter 8 (7)
They talked, but they could not calm their hearts which were anxious for the coming of the dawn. "The gods are seated in the ravines, in the forests,...
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