Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... sacred enclosure . Even were there more har- mony , the analysis of names could throw little light on myths . In stories the names may well be , and often demonstrably are , the latest , not the original feature . Tales , at first told ...
... sacred enclosure . Even were there more har- mony , the analysis of names could throw little light on myths . In stories the names may well be , and often demonstrably are , the latest , not the original feature . Tales , at first told ...
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... sacred stone of Scone , probably an ancient fetich stone . Not to speak , here , of our own religious traditions , the old vein of savage rite and belief is found very near the surface of ancient Greek religion . It needs but some ...
... sacred stone of Scone , probably an ancient fetich stone . Not to speak , here , of our own religious traditions , the old vein of savage rite and belief is found very near the surface of ancient Greek religion . It needs but some ...
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... sacred object . The bull - roarer has been , and is , a sacred and magical instrument in many and widely separated lands . It is found , always as a sacred instrument , employed in religious mysteries , in New Mexico , in Australia , in ...
... sacred object . The bull - roarer has been , and is , a sacred and magical instrument in many and widely separated lands . It is found , always as a sacred instrument , employed in religious mysteries , in New Mexico , in Australia , in ...
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... sacred mystery of the turndun is preserved by a legend , which gives a super- natural sanction to secrecy . When boys go through the mystic ceremony of initiation they are shown turnduns , or bull - roarers , and made to listen to their ...
... sacred mystery of the turndun is preserved by a legend , which gives a super- natural sanction to secrecy . When boys go through the mystic ceremony of initiation they are shown turnduns , or bull - roarers , and made to listen to their ...
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... sacred wind analogous to that employed by whirlers of the turndun.2 Servius , the ancient commentator on Virgil , men- 1 Taylor's New Zealand , p . 181 . 2 This is not the view of le Père Lafitau , a learned Jesuit missionary in North ...
... sacred wind analogous to that employed by whirlers of the turndun.2 Servius , the ancient commentator on Virgil , men- 1 Taylor's New Zealand , p . 181 . 2 This is not the view of le Père Lafitau , a learned Jesuit missionary in North ...
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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.