Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... common use among savages are usually derived from natural phenomena , often from clouds , sky , sun , dawn . If , then , a name in a myth can be proved to mean cloud , sky , sun , or what not ( and usually one set of scholars find ...
... common use among savages are usually derived from natural phenomena , often from clouds , sky , sun , dawn . If , then , a name in a myth can be proved to mean cloud , sky , sun , or what not ( and usually one set of scholars find ...
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... common to savages . ( Cupid and Psyche ' traces another Aryan myth among savage races , and attempts to show that the myth may have had its origin in a rule of barbarous etiquette . ' A Far - travelled Tale ' examines a part of the ...
... common to savages . ( Cupid and Psyche ' traces another Aryan myth among savage races , and attempts to show that the myth may have had its origin in a rule of barbarous etiquette . ' A Far - travelled Tale ' examines a part of the ...
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... common state of superstitious fancy , not the signs of an original community of origin . Let us take another piece of folklore . All North - country English folk know the Kernababy . The custom of the Kernababy ' is commonly ob- 6 ...
... common state of superstitious fancy , not the signs of an original community of origin . Let us take another piece of folklore . All North - country English folk know the Kernababy . The custom of the Kernababy ' is commonly ob- 6 ...
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... common simple ideas of human nature . We are not obliged to hold , either that the Peruvians and Scotch are akin by blood , nor that , at some for- gotten time , they met each other , and borrowed each other's superstitions . Again ...
... common simple ideas of human nature . We are not obliged to hold , either that the Peruvians and Scotch are akin by blood , nor that , at some for- gotten time , they met each other , and borrowed each other's superstitions . Again ...
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... common to Hellenic religion , and to the religion of African , Australian , and American tribes . Now , with regard to all these strange usages , what is the method of folklore ? The method is , when an apparently irrational and ...
... common to Hellenic religion , and to the religion of African , Australian , and American tribes . Now , with regard to all these strange usages , what is the method of folklore ? The method is , when an apparently irrational and ...
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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.