Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... 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 clouds , where others see the dawn ) , we ...
... 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 clouds , where others see the dawn ) , we ...
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... derive Dionysus from the Assyrian Daian nisi , ' judge of men , ' a name of the solar god Samas , without ascertaining that the wine - god exercised judicial functions , and was a god of the sun . These derivations , ' shocking to ...
... derive Dionysus from the Assyrian Daian nisi , ' judge of men , ' a name of the solar god Samas , without ascertaining that the wine - god exercised judicial functions , and was a god of the sun . These derivations , ' shocking to ...
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... derived from the crescent moon , the ' silver sickle , ' or from a crescent - shaped piece of meteoric iron - for , in this theory , the fetich - stone of Delphi is a piece of that substance . It will be observed that any one of these ...
... derived from the crescent moon , the ' silver sickle , ' or from a crescent - shaped piece of meteoric iron - for , in this theory , the fetich - stone of Delphi is a piece of that substance . It will be observed that any one of these ...
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... derived , he thinks , from idoμai , to heal , because Jason studied medicine under the Centaur Chiron . This is the view of the Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius ( i . 554 ) . Jason , to Preller's mind , is a form of Asclepius , ' a ...
... derived , he thinks , from idoμai , to heal , because Jason studied medicine under the Centaur Chiron . This is the view of the Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius ( i . 554 ) . Jason , to Preller's mind , is a form of Asclepius , ' a ...
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... toddy- ladle . But these resemblances take us only a little way towards appellations . We know that we derive many of the names straight from the Greek ; but whence did the Greeks get them ? Some , it 122 CUSTOM AND MYTH .
... toddy- ladle . But these resemblances take us only a little way towards appellations . We know that we derive many of the names straight from the Greek ; but whence did the Greeks get them ? Some , it 122 CUSTOM AND MYTH .
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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.