Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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Página 18
... daughter of Demeter . ' The Maiden ' has dwindled , then , among us to the rudimentary kernababy ; but ancient Peru had her own Maiden , her Harvest Goddess . Here it is easy to trace the natural idea at the basis of the superstitious ...
... daughter of Demeter . ' The Maiden ' has dwindled , then , among us to the rudimentary kernababy ; but ancient Peru had her own Maiden , her Harvest Goddess . Here it is easy to trace the natural idea at the basis of the superstitious ...
Página 53
... daughter is the child of Kwai Hemm , a supernatural character , ' the all - devourer . ' The Mantis gets his adopted daughter to call the swallower to his aid ; but Kwai Hemm swallows the Mantis , the god - insect . As Zeus made his own ...
... daughter is the child of Kwai Hemm , a supernatural character , ' the all - devourer . ' The Mantis gets his adopted daughter to call the swallower to his aid ; but Kwai Hemm swallows the Mantis , the god - insect . As Zeus made his own ...
Página 56
... daughter , and spit her out again . ' While natural phenomena , explained on savage principles , might give the data of the swallow - myth , we must not con- clude that all beings to whom the story is attached are , therefore , the ...
... daughter , and spit her out again . ' While natural phenomena , explained on savage principles , might give the data of the swallow - myth , we must not con- clude that all beings to whom the story is attached are , therefore , the ...
Página 72
... daughter by his last wife , yet he never saw her without her veil , as having been married to her only two years . ' Excellently as this prohibition suits my theory , yet I confess I do not like Job's security . intended during the day ...
... daughter by his last wife , yet he never saw her without her veil , as having been married to her only two years . ' Excellently as this prohibition suits my theory , yet I confess I do not like Job's security . intended during the day ...
Página 74
... daughters , that they should never sit at meat with their husbands , and that none should ever call her husband by his name . ' In precisely the same way , in Zululand the wife may not mention her husband's name , just as in the Welsh ...
... daughters , that they should never sit at meat with their husbands , and that none should ever call her husband by his name . ' In precisely the same way , in Zululand the wife may not mention her husband's name , just as in the Welsh ...
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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.