Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... root from which a name springs , they differ as much as ever as to the meaning of the name in its present place . The inference is , that the analysis of names , on which the whole edifice of philological ' comparative mythology ' rests ...
... root from which a name springs , they differ as much as ever as to the meaning of the name in its present place . The inference is , that the analysis of names , on which the whole edifice of philological ' comparative mythology ' rests ...
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... root as the Sanskrit Krāna.1 Krāna means , it who creates for appears , der für sich schaffende , he himself , and Cronus is compared to the Indian Pragapati , about whom even more abominable stories are told than the myths which ...
... root as the Sanskrit Krāna.1 Krāna means , it who creates for appears , der für sich schaffende , he himself , and Cronus is compared to the Indian Pragapati , about whom even more abominable stories are told than the myths which ...
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... root of the word Cronus . We only find parallels to the myth among savages , whose mental condition is fertile in such legends . And we only infer that the myth of Cronus was originally evolved by persons also in the savage intel ...
... root of the word Cronus . We only find parallels to the myth among savages , whose mental condition is fertile in such legends . And we only infer that the myth of Cronus was originally evolved by persons also in the savage intel ...
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... root as to pervade . ' Now the 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 ...
... root as to pervade . ' Now the 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 ...
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... root i , as denoting a crying hue , " that is , a loud colour . ' It is interesting to learn that our Aryan fathers spoke of ' loud colours , ' and were so sensi- tive as to think violet ' loud . ' Besides , Pururavas calls himself ...
... root i , as denoting a crying hue , " that is , a loud colour . ' It is interesting to learn that our Aryan fathers spoke of ' loud colours , ' and were so sensi- tive as to think violet ' loud . ' Besides , Pururavas calls himself ...
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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.