Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... Indian , and savage myth- ologies , I have become more and more impressed with a sense of the inadequacy of the prevalent method of comparative mythology . That method is based on the belief that myths are the result of a disease of ...
... Indian , and savage myth- ologies , I have become more and more impressed with a sense of the inadequacy of the prevalent method of comparative mythology . That method is based on the belief that myths are the result of a disease of ...
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... Indians , or swimming with sacred pigs , or leaping about in imitation of wolves , or holding a dog - feast , and offering dog's flesh to the gods . Thus the student of folklore soon finds that he must enlarge his field , and examine ...
... Indians , or swimming with sacred pigs , or leaping about in imitation of wolves , or holding a dog - feast , and offering dog's flesh to the gods . Thus the student of folklore soon finds that he must enlarge his field , and examine ...
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... Indians does the same thing , as a trial of courage , with real rattlesnakes , we understand the Red Man's motives , and may conjecture that similar motives once existed among the ancestors of the Greeks . Our method , then , is to ...
... Indians does the same thing , as a trial of courage , with real rattlesnakes , we understand the Red Man's motives , and may conjecture that similar motives once existed among the ancestors of the Greeks . Our method , then , is to ...
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... Indian stories , because Greeks , Slavs , Celts , and Hindoos all speak languages of the same family . Again , they hold it correct to compare Chaldæan and Greek myths , be- cause the Greeks and the Chaldæans were brought into contact ...
... Indian stories , because Greeks , Slavs , Celts , and Hindoos all speak languages of the same family . Again , they hold it correct to compare Chaldæan and Greek myths , be- cause the Greeks and the Chaldæans were brought into contact ...
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... Indian Ocean shell has been discovered in a prehistoric bone - cave in Poland . This slow filtration of tales is not absolutely out of the question . Two causes would especially help to trans- mit myths . The first is slavery and slave ...
... Indian Ocean shell has been discovered in a prehistoric bone - cave in Poland . This slow filtration of tales is not absolutely out of the question . Two causes would especially help to trans- mit myths . The first is slavery and slave ...
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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.