Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... woman of a man's own family . Slaves and captured brides would bring their native legends among alien peoples . But there is another possible way of explaining the resemblance ( granting that it is proved ) of the Greek and Australian ...
... woman of a man's own family . Slaves and captured brides would bring their native legends among alien peoples . But there is another possible way of explaining the resemblance ( granting that it is proved ) of the Greek and Australian ...
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... women into the families - all these things favoured the migration of myth . But the process lies behind history : we can only guess at it , we can seldom trace a popular legend on its travels . In the case of the cultivated ancient ...
... women into the families - all these things favoured the migration of myth . But the process lies behind history : we can only guess at it , we can seldom trace a popular legend on its travels . In the case of the cultivated ancient ...
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... women to keep out of the way . Just as Pentheus was killed ( with the approval of Theocritus ) because he profaned the rites of the women - worshippers of Dionysus , so , among the Australian blacks , men must , at their peril , keep ...
... women to keep out of the way . Just as Pentheus was killed ( with the approval of Theocritus ) because he profaned the rites of the women - worshippers of Dionysus , so , among the Australian blacks , men must , at their peril , keep ...
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... women may never look upon it . The Chepara tribe , who call it bribbun , have a custom that , if 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 ...
... women may never look upon it . The Chepara tribe , who call it bribbun , have a custom that , if 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 ...
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... women attach great sacredness to the very name of the turndun . They are much less instructed in their own theology than the men of the tribe . One woman believed she had heard Pundjel , the chief supernatural being , descend in a ...
... women attach great sacredness to the very name of the turndun . They are much less instructed in their own theology than the men of the tribe . One woman believed she had heard Pundjel , the chief supernatural being , descend in a ...
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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.