Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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Página 35
... believe that the New Zealand bull - roarer may be whirled by any man who is re- peating a Karakia , or ' charm to raise the wind ' : - 1 Fison , Journal Anthrop . Soc . , Nov. 1883 . Loud wind , Lasting wind , Violent whistling wind ...
... believe that the New Zealand bull - roarer may be whirled by any man who is re- peating a Karakia , or ' charm to raise the wind ' : - 1 Fison , Journal Anthrop . Soc . , Nov. 1883 . Loud wind , Lasting wind , Violent whistling wind ...
Página 47
... ' and so he has just been accused of impiety , the charge for which he died . Socrates cannot believe that a god , Cronus , mutilated his father Uranus , but Euthyphro believes the whole` affair THE MYTH OF CRONUS . 47.
... ' and so he has just been accused of impiety , the charge for which he died . Socrates cannot believe that a god , Cronus , mutilated his father Uranus , but Euthyphro believes the whole` affair THE MYTH OF CRONUS . 47.
Página 54
... believe that birds were the original gods , and the eagle , especially , is a great creative power . The Moon was a mischievous being , who walked about the world , doing what evil he could . swallowed the eagle - god . The wives of the ...
... believe that birds were the original gods , and the eagle , especially , is a great creative power . The Moon was a mischievous being , who walked about the world , doing what evil he could . swallowed the eagle - god . The wives of the ...
Página 59
... believe such hideous stories about the god . This theory , therefore , is of no practical service . The theory of Adalbert Kuhn , one of the most famous of Sanskrit scholars , and author of ' Die Herabkunft des Feuers , ' is directly ...
... believe such hideous stories about the god . This theory , therefore , is of no practical service . The theory of Adalbert Kuhn , one of the most famous of Sanskrit scholars , and author of ' Die Herabkunft des Feuers , ' is directly ...
Página 60
... believe that myth - making man took all those distinctions , or held those views of the Creator . However , the chief thing to note is that Mr. Müller's etymology and Kuhn's etymology of Cronus can hardly both be true , which , as their ...
... believe that myth - making man took all those distinctions , or held those views of the Creator . However , the chief thing to note is that Mr. Müller's etymology and Kuhn's etymology of Cronus can hardly both be true , which , as their ...
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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.