Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... explained as an epithet of the sun , or of the cloud , or of both . Whatever , then , a name may signify , some scholars will find that it originally denoted the cloud , if they belong to one school , or the sun or dawn , if they belong ...
... explained as an epithet of the sun , or of the cloud , or of both . Whatever , then , a name may signify , some scholars will find that it originally denoted the cloud , if they belong to one school , or the sun or dawn , if they belong ...
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... explanation of the story . If one thing in mythology be certain , it is that myths are always changing masters ... explained in the first essay , called ' The Method of Folklore . ' The name , Folklore , is not a good one , but ...
... explanation of the story . If one thing in mythology be certain , it is that myths are always changing masters ... explained in the first essay , called ' The Method of Folklore . ' The name , Folklore , is not a good one , but ...
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... explanation of the tie between the God and the Beast , that Apollo - worship superseded , but did not eradicate , Totemism . The suggestion is little more than a conjecture . ' Star Myths ' points out that Greek myths of stars are a ...
... explanation of the tie between the God and the Beast , that Apollo - worship superseded , but did not eradicate , Totemism . The suggestion is little more than a conjecture . ' Star Myths ' points out that Greek myths of stars are a ...
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... explain them as the result of community of race between Cingalese and Aztecs . Nor would this explanation be offered to account for the Aztec and English belief that the creaking of furniture is an omen of death in a house . Obviously ...
... explain them as the result of community of race between Cingalese and Aztecs . Nor would this explanation be offered to account for the Aztec and English belief that the creaking of furniture is an omen of death in a house . Obviously ...
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... explanation beyond the 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 ...
... explanation beyond the 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 ...
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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.