Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... seen in the essay ' A Far- travelled Tale , ' the analysis of the name of Jason is fanciful , precarious , disputed , while the essence of his myth is current in Samoa , Finland , North America , Madagascar , and other lands , where the ...
... seen in the essay ' A Far- travelled Tale , ' the analysis of the name of Jason is fanciful , precarious , disputed , while the essence of his myth is current in Samoa , Finland , North America , Madagascar , and other lands , where the ...
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... seen many a kernababy . The last gleanings of the last field are bound up in a rude imitation of the human shape , and dressed in some tag - rags of finery . The usage has fallen into the conservative hands of children , but of old ...
... seen many a kernababy . The last gleanings of the last field are bound up in a rude imitation of the human shape , and dressed in some tag - rags of finery . The usage has fallen into the conservative hands of children , but of old ...
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... seen , it is a peasant - boy's plaything in England . A number of questions are naturally suggested by the bull - roarer . Is it a thing invented once for all , and carried abroad over the world by wandering races , or handed on from ...
... seen , it is a peasant - boy's plaything in England . A number of questions are naturally suggested by the bull - roarer . Is it a thing invented once for all , and carried abroad over the world by wandering races , or handed on from ...
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... seen by a woman , or shown by a man to a woman , the punishment to both is death . ' Among the Kurnai , the sacred mystery of the turndun is preserved by a legend , which gives a super- natural sanction to secrecy . When boys go through ...
... seen by a woman , or shown by a man to a woman , the punishment to both is death . ' Among the Kurnai , the sacred mystery of the turndun is preserved by a legend , which gives a super- natural sanction to secrecy . When boys go through ...
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... seen that this view was actually taken by an Austra- lian woman . The hymn called ' breath , ' or haha , a hymn to the mystic wind , is pronounced by Maori priests at the moment of the initiation of young men in the tribal mysteries ...
... seen that this view was actually taken by an Austra- lian woman . The hymn called ' breath , ' or haha , a hymn to the mystic wind , is pronounced by Maori priests at the moment of the initiation of young men in the tribal mysteries ...
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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.