Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... Australian black putting sharp bits of quartz in the tracks of an enemy who has gone by , that the enemy may be lamed ... Australians , and Jews , and French , and Aztecs spreading dust round the body of a dead man , that the footprints ...
... Australian black putting sharp bits of quartz in the tracks of an enemy who has gone by , that the enemy may be lamed ... Australians , and Jews , and French , and Aztecs spreading dust round the body of a dead man , that the footprints ...
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... Australian mind and of the mind of Mrs. Riddell . We shall later turn to ancient Greece , and show how the serpent - dances , the habit of smearing the body with clay , and other odd rites of the mysteries , were common to Hellenic ...
... Australian mind and of the mind of Mrs. Riddell . We shall later turn to ancient Greece , and show how the serpent - dances , the habit of smearing the body with clay , and other odd rites of the mysteries , were common to Hellenic ...
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... Australian Pleiad myth is of genuine native origin , we need not fly to the conclusion that the Australians are a lost and forlorn branch of the Aryan race . Two other hypotheses present themselves . First , the human species is of ...
... Australian Pleiad myth is of genuine native origin , we need not fly to the conclusion that the Australians are a lost and forlorn branch of the Aryan race . Two other hypotheses present themselves . First , the human species is of ...
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... Australian Pleiad myth . The object of both myths is to account for the grouping and other phenomena of the constellations . May not similar explanatory stories have occurred to the ancestors of the Australians , and to the ancestors of ...
... Australian Pleiad myth . The object of both myths is to account for the grouping and other phenomena of the constellations . May not similar explanatory stories have occurred to the ancestors of the Australians , and to the ancestors of ...
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... Australian possessors of a similar usage . The hypothesis will be that the myth , or usage , is common to both races , not because of original community of stock , not because of contact and borrowing , but because the ancestors of the ...
... Australian possessors of a similar usage . The hypothesis will be that the myth , or usage , is common to both races , not because of original community of stock , not because of contact and borrowing , but because the ancestors of the ...
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adoration Africa ancestors ancient animal Apollo Aryan Australians Aymar ballad bear beasts believe Bheki bride Brosses bull-roarer Bushmen called civilised Cloth Cronus Cupid and Psyche custom daughter dawn derived descent divining rod early Earth Egyptians epic Eskimo exogamy explain fairy family name fetichism folklore gens gods Greece Greek Half Calf Heaven hero History Homer Hottentots human ideas Illustrations Ilmarinen Infinite Jason JOHN S. C. ABBOTT Kalevala Khoi Khoi Khoi kinship legend M'Lennan magical maidens Maori marriage Max Müller meaning mice modern moly moon mother mouse mysteries mythology natural night origin Peruvian philological Pohjola polyandry primitive probably Pururavas race recognised Red Indians religion religious rites root sacred Samoa Sanskrit savage says serpent Sheep Sir Henry Maine stars stone story superstition survival tale theory things tion totemism tribes Tsui Goab turndun Uncut Edges Urvasi Veda vols Wäinämöinen wand woman women worship Zealand Zeus
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Página 185 - My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Página 150 - Therewith the slayer of Argos gave me the plant that he had plucked from the ground, and he showed me the growth thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig; howbeit with the gods all things are possible.