Biblical, Historical, Literary and Mythological Allusions

David and Goliath

• an underdog opposing and defeating a giant
• a very difficult task
• The object of an extended or difficult quest.
• Something so precious that one would devote everything to or give up      everything for it.

Eden   

• Something so precious that one would devote everything to or give up      everything for it.
• an experience or a place of intense mental suffering.       
• paradise; an unspoiled idyllic, peaceful place
• The object of an extended or difficult quest.

Epiphany

• an experience or a place of intense mental suffering.       
• a very difficult task
• the first and the last, from beginning to end, the whole nine yards. 
• an illuminating discovery       

Eye of the Needle

•  illuminating discovery
• an experience or a place of intense mental suffering
• a very difficult task
• an inspired sign which clearly shows the way

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

• war, famine, pestilence (disease), death
• the point at which a dramatic change in viewpoint occurs, owing to some miraculous intervention
• an omen of one’s unpleasant fate.
• a stigma; the distinguishing mark or brand of a criminal or outcast

Golgatha
(Place of the Skull)

• a stigma; the distinguishing mark or brand of a criminal or outcast
• an experience or a place of intense mental suffering.
• the price of betrayal
• an omen of one’s unpleasant fate.

Good Samaritan 

• you should feel responsibility for the well-being of your fellow man
• an underdog opposing and defeating a giant
• somebody with a seemingly infinite store of patience
• one who selflessly assists another, especially  a stranger in trouble.

Holy Grail 

• paradise; an unspoiled idyllic, peaceful place
• The object of an extended or difficult quest.
• an experience or a place of intense mental suffering.
• an inspired sign which clearly shows the way

Jonah
[and the Whale] 

• one who brings bad luck
• ne who selflessly assists another, especially  a stranger in trouble.
• an underdog opposing and defeating a giant         
• a reminder not to choose a worldly life, and never to look back. 

Lot’s Wife 

• one who brings bad luck
• somebody with a seemingly infinite store of patience
• one who selflessly assists another, especially  a stranger in trouble.
• a reminder not to choose a worldly life, and never to look back.