Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... question of scholarship merely , it would be simply foolhardy to differ from men like Max Müller , Adalbert Kuhn , Bréal , and many others . But a revolutionary mythologist is en- couraged by finding that these scholars usually differ ...
... question of scholarship merely , it would be simply foolhardy to differ from men like Max Müller , Adalbert Kuhn , Bréal , and many others . But a revolutionary mythologist is en- couraged by finding that these scholars usually differ ...
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... question is asked whether the story may have been diffused by slow filtration from race to race all over the globe , as there seems no reason why it should have been invented separately ( as a myth explanatory of natural phenomena or of ...
... question is asked whether the story may have been diffused by slow filtration from race to race all over the globe , as there seems no reason why it should have been invented separately ( as a myth explanatory of natural phenomena or of ...
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... question tranquilly sleeping , but gradually roused to a perception that discordant sounds disturbed the serenity of my slumber . Loth to stir , I still dozed on , the sounds , however , becoming , as it seemed , more determined to make ...
... question tranquilly sleeping , but gradually roused to a perception that discordant sounds disturbed the serenity of my slumber . Loth to stir , I still dozed on , the sounds , however , becoming , as it seemed , more determined to make ...
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... questions . Is the Austra- lian version authentic ? Can the people who told it have heard it from a European ? If these questions are answered so as to make it apparent that the Australian Pleiad myth is of genuine native origin , we ...
... questions . Is the Austra- lian version authentic ? Can the people who told it have heard it from a European ? If these questions are answered so as to make it apparent that the Australian Pleiad myth is of genuine native origin , we ...
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... question . Two causes would especially help to trans- mit myths . The first is slavery and slave - stealing , the second is the habit of capturing brides from alien stocks , and the law which forbids marriage with a woman of a man's own ...
... question . Two causes would especially help to trans- mit myths . The first is slavery and slave - stealing , the second is the habit of capturing brides from alien stocks , and the law which forbids marriage with a woman of a man's own ...
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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.