Custom and MythLongmans, Green and Company, 1884 - 312 páginas |
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... a sky myth . The modern interpreter forgets , first , that to the myth - maker sky did not at all mean the same thing as it means to him . Sky Prim . Cult . i . 394 . meant , not an airy , infinite , radiant vault INTRODUCTION . 5.
... a sky myth . The modern interpreter forgets , first , that to the myth - maker sky did not at all mean the same thing as it means to him . Sky Prim . Cult . i . 394 . meant , not an airy , infinite , radiant vault INTRODUCTION . 5.
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... modern , and the Hottentot folklore of magical herbs , with a criticism of a scholarly and philological hypothesis , according to which Moly is the dog - star , and Circe the moon . ' The Kalevala ' is an account of the Finnish national ...
... modern , and the Hottentot folklore of magical herbs , with a criticism of a scholarly and philological hypothesis , according to which Moly is the dog - star , and Circe the moon . ' The Kalevala ' is an account of the Finnish national ...
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... modern South Sea Islanders , or like their own prehistoric ancestors . The student of folklore is thus led to examine the usages , myths , and ideas of savages , which are still retained , in rude enough shape , by the European ...
... modern South Sea Islanders , or like their own prehistoric ancestors . The student of folklore is thus led to examine the usages , myths , and ideas of savages , which are still retained , in rude enough shape , by the European ...
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... modern Samoyed . Perhaps only a skilled experience could discern , in a heap of such arrow - heads , the specimens which are found in America or Africa from those which are unearthed in Europe . Even in the pro- ducts of more advanced ...
... modern Samoyed . Perhaps only a skilled experience could discern , in a heap of such arrow - heads , the specimens which are found in America or Africa from those which are unearthed in Europe . Even in the pro- ducts of more advanced ...
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... modern novel , where the presence of a ghost is sus- pected , as proof of the similar workings of the Australian mind and of the mind of Mrs. Riddell . We shall later turn to ancient Greece , and show how the serpent - dances , the ...
... modern novel , where the presence of a ghost is sus- pected , as proof of the similar workings of the Australian mind and of the mind of Mrs. Riddell . We shall later turn to ancient Greece , and show how the serpent - dances , the ...
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Página 115 - They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
Página 148 - 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.
Página 184 - The Kutuchtu Lama ordered the proper steps to be taken to find out the thief. " One of the Lamas took a bench with four feet, and after turning it in several directions, at last it pointed directly to the tent where the stolen goods were concealed. The Lama now mounted across the bench, and soon carried it, or, as was commonly believed, it carried him, to the very tent, where he ordered the damask to be produced. The demand was directly complied with ; for it is vain in such cases to offer any excuse.
Página 204 - Knee, and was originally applied to a doctor or sorcerer of considerable notoriety and skill among the Hottentots or Namaquas some generations back, in consequence of his having received some injury to his knee.
Página 230 - ... of the infinite. Everything of which his senses cannot perceive a limit is, to a primitive savage, or to any man in an early stage of intellectual activity, unlimited or infinite.
Página 58 - Olympic games, and how can we imagine that, a few generations before that time, the highest notions of the Godhead among the Greeks were adequately expressed by the story of Uranos maimed by Kronos, — of Kronos eating his children, swallowing a stone, and vomiting out alive his whole progeny. Among the lowest tribes of Africa and America we hardly find anything more hideous and revolting.