Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... God and the Beast , that Apollo - worship superseded , but did not eradicate , Totemism .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 survival from the savage stage of ...
... God and the Beast , that Apollo - worship superseded , but did not eradicate , Totemism .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 survival from the savage stage of ...
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... gods . Thus the student of folklore soon finds that he must enlarge his field , and examine , not only popular European story and practice , but savage way's and ideas , and the myths and usages of the educated classes in civilised ...
... gods . Thus the student of folklore soon finds that he must enlarge his field , and examine , not only popular European story and practice , but savage way's and ideas , and the myths and usages of the educated classes in civilised ...
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... God , saying , ' Lord , punish this man , who saw me fallen and raised me not again ; punish him with famine , that he may learn not to hold me in dishonour . ' Well , in all this affair of the Scotch kernababy , and the Peruvian Mama ...
... God , saying , ' Lord , punish this man , who saw me fallen and raised me not again ; punish him with famine , that he may learn not to hold me in dishonour . ' Well , in all this affair of the Scotch kernababy , and the Peruvian Mama ...
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... gods , capable of assuming ani- mal shapes , tricky , capricious , limited in many undivine ways , yet endowed with magical powers . So far the mythical gods of Homer , of the Edda , of any of the Brahmanas , are on a level with each ...
... gods , capable of assuming ani- mal shapes , tricky , capricious , limited in many undivine ways , yet endowed with magical powers . So far the mythical gods of Homer , of the Edda , of any of the Brahmanas , are on a level with each ...
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... gods , when their tricks are laid aside , when Odin is neither assuming the shape of worm nor of raven , have a martial dignity , a noble enduring spirit of their own . Race comes out in that , as it does in the endless sacrifices ...
... gods , when their tricks are laid aside , when Odin is neither assuming the shape of worm nor of raven , have a martial dignity , a noble enduring spirit of their own . Race comes out in that , as it does in the endless sacrifices ...
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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.