Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... dawn with her rays , or in clouds with their floods ; are we to seek the origin of the names of heroes in things historical and human , or in physical phenomena ? ' Professor Tiele , of Leyden , says much the same thing : The uncer ...
... dawn with her rays , or in clouds with their floods ; are we to seek the origin of the names of heroes in things historical and human , or in physical phenomena ? ' Professor Tiele , of Leyden , says much the same thing : The uncer ...
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... 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 clouds , where others see the dawn ) , we must not instantly infer that the myth is a nature - myth ...
... 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 clouds , where others see the dawn ) , we must not instantly infer that the myth is a nature - myth ...
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... Dawn after the arrival of Night should make Dawn a necessary . Next day Qat's brothers saw the sun crawl away west , and presently Night came creep- ing up from the sea . What is this ? ' cried the brothers . ' It is Night , ' said Qat ...
... Dawn after the arrival of Night should make Dawn a necessary . Next day Qat's brothers saw the sun crawl away west , and presently Night came creep- ing up from the sea . What is this ? ' cried the brothers . ' It is Night , ' said Qat ...
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... Mr. Max Müller interprets the myth of Urvasi and Pururavas , their loves , separation , and reunion . Mr. Müller says that the story ' expresses the identity of the morning dawn CUPID , PSYCHE , AND THE ' SUN - FROG . ' 67.
... Mr. Max Müller interprets the myth of Urvasi and Pururavas , their loves , separation , and reunion . Mr. Müller says that the story ' expresses the identity of the morning dawn CUPID , PSYCHE , AND THE ' SUN - FROG . ' 67.
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... dawn is ' widely pervading , ' and has , in Sanskrit , the epithet urűkî , ' far - going . ' Mr. Müller next assumes that ' Eurykyde , ' ' Eurynome , ' ' Eurydike , ' and other heroic Greek female names , are ' names of the dawn ' ; but ...
... dawn is ' widely pervading , ' and has , in Sanskrit , the epithet urűkî , ' far - going . ' Mr. Müller next assumes that ' Eurykyde , ' ' Eurynome , ' ' Eurydike , ' and other heroic Greek female names , are ' names of the dawn ' ; but ...
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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.