Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... Beast , that Apollo - worship superseded , but did not eradicate , Totemism . The suggestion is little more than a conjecture . ' Star Myths ' points out that Greek myths of stars are a survival from the savage stage of fancy in which ...
... Beast , that Apollo - worship superseded , but did not eradicate , Totemism . The suggestion is little more than a conjecture . ' Star Myths ' points out that Greek myths of stars are a survival from the savage stage of fancy in which ...
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... beasts could be swallowed and disgorged alive , and why they fashioned the idea into a divine myth , it is hard to ... beast which swallows all things . The notion that night is an animal is entirely in har- mony with savage metaphysics ...
... beasts could be swallowed and disgorged alive , and why they fashioned the idea into a divine myth , it is hard to ... beast which swallows all things . The notion that night is an animal is entirely in har- mony with savage metaphysics ...
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... beasts . that are not to be revived , and when they are re- awakened by the commission of some act which she has forbidden , or the neglect of some precaution which she has enjoined , she , like Urvasi , disappears . " The best known ...
... beasts . that are not to be revived , and when they are re- awakened by the commission of some act which she has forbidden , or the neglect of some precaution which she has enjoined , she , like Urvasi , disappears . " The best known ...
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... beast are on a level , and all savage myth makes men descended from beasts ; while stories of the loves of gods in bestial shape , or the unions of men and animals , incessantly occur . ' Un- natural ' as these notions seem to us , no ...
... beast are on a level , and all savage myth makes men descended from beasts ; while stories of the loves of gods in bestial shape , or the unions of men and animals , incessantly occur . ' Un- natural ' as these notions seem to us , no ...
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... beast kin . To thee I sacrificed all , ' she said , and I only asked thee to help me dry- footed over the waters . Thou didst cruelly neglect this . Now I must remain for ever with my people . ' " 1 6 This tale was told to Kohl by an ...
... beast kin . To thee I sacrificed all , ' she said , and I only asked thee to help me dry- footed over the waters . Thou didst cruelly neglect this . Now I must remain for ever with my people . ' " 1 6 This tale was told to Kohl by an ...
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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.