Demonology and Devil-lore, Band 1H. Holt, 1879 |
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... doubt on the path of decline from pure divinity . Plato declares that good men when they die become ' demons , ' and he says ' demons are reporters and carriers between gods and men . ' Our familiar word bogey , a sort of nickname for ...
... doubt on the path of decline from pure divinity . Plato declares that good men when they die become ' demons , ' and he says ' demons are reporters and carriers between gods and men . ' Our familiar word bogey , a sort of nickname for ...
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... doubt , of the underlying fact : they have never spoken ill of ' the Satan they worship . The Mussulman calls the Yezedi a Satan - worshipper only as the early Zoroastrian held the worshipper of a deva to be the same . The chief object ...
... doubt , of the underlying fact : they have never spoken ill of ' the Satan they worship . The Mussulman calls the Yezedi a Satan - worshipper only as the early Zoroastrian held the worshipper of a deva to be the same . The chief object ...
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... doubt this was in part due to the fact that it also was a devouring element . Sacrifices were burnt ; the demon visibly con- sumed them . But the great flame - demons represent chiefly the destructive and painful action of intense heat ...
... doubt this was in part due to the fact that it also was a devouring element . Sacrifices were burnt ; the demon visibly con- sumed them . But the great flame - demons represent chiefly the destructive and painful action of intense heat ...
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... doubt ; but there is no cult in the world which , if scratched , ' as the proverb says , will not reveal beneath it the same conception . However it may be spiritualised , every ' plan of salvation ' is cast in the mould of Winter ...
... doubt ; but there is no cult in the world which , if scratched , ' as the proverb says , will not reveal beneath it the same conception . However it may be spiritualised , every ' plan of salvation ' is cast in the mould of Winter ...
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... doubt personified in the Hindu Munasa , who , while all gods slept , sat in the shape of a serpent on a branch of Euphorbia to preserve mankind from the venom of snakes . It is to be feared , however , that it is hardly the wisdom of ...
... doubt personified in the Hindu Munasa , who , while all gods slept , sat in the shape of a serpent on a branch of Euphorbia to preserve mankind from the venom of snakes . It is to be feared , however , that it is hardly the wisdom of ...
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ages Agni Ahriman amid ancient angel animal appear ascribed Azazel bear beautiful belief Brimir burning called character Chimæra christian dance darkness dead death deities demonolatry Demonology demons demons and devils desert devouring diseases dragon dread Drisa earth evil eyes fables fear fiery fire flames folklore giant goat goddess gods Gog and Magog hand haunted head heaven hell Hindu holy horse human hymns India Indra Jehovah king legend light Max Müller means Moloch monster moon mountain myth mythology nature night Odin origin passed Perun popular præternatural priests primitive probably race regions religion represented Rig-Veda rock Rudra sacred sacrifice Sanskrit Saranyu Satan says seen serpent seven snake soul spirits stone story superstition survival temple teraphim terror thee thou tion tree tribes Typhon vampyre Vedic Vritra werewolf wild witch wolf word worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 229 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Seite 341 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Seite 344 - Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Seite 332 - He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Seite 185 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat...
Seite 167 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Seite 81 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Seite 81 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Seite 332 - In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Seite 386 - My lord bishop, I here present you with the falchion wherewith the champion Conyers slew the worm, dragon, or fiery flying serpent, which destroyed man, woman, and child ; in memory of which, the king then reigning gave him the manor of Sockburn, to hold by this tenure, that upon the first entrance of every bishop into the county, this falchion should be presented.