Demonology and Devil-lore, Band 1H. Holt, 1881 |
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... carrying order amid dis- order . However partial my own success in its interpreta- tion , certain it is that in these hieroglyphic shadows of humanity there lies a pathetically noble history ; a history universal and continuous from the ...
... carrying order amid dis- order . However partial my own success in its interpreta- tion , certain it is that in these hieroglyphic shadows of humanity there lies a pathetically noble history ; a history universal and continuous from the ...
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... carry- ing our culture with us . Without conceding too much to Solar mythology , it may be pronounced tolerably clear that the earliest emotion of worship was born out of the wonder with which man looked up to the heavens above him ...
... carry- ing our culture with us . Without conceding too much to Solar mythology , it may be pronounced tolerably clear that the earliest emotion of worship was born out of the wonder with which man looked up to the heavens above him ...
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... carried the day , and they used every ingenuity to degrade the gods of their opponents . Agathodemons were turned into kako- demons . The serpent , worshipped in many lands , might be adopted as the support of sleeping Vishnu in India ...
... carried the day , and they used every ingenuity to degrade the gods of their opponents . Agathodemons were turned into kako- demons . The serpent , worshipped in many lands , might be adopted as the support of sleeping Vishnu in India ...
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... carried to the happy Sunset Land in a whale . The story of Jonah has indeed had interest- ing variants , one of them being that legend of Oannes , the fish - god , emerging from the Red Sea to teach Babylonians the arts ( a saga of ...
... carried to the happy Sunset Land in a whale . The story of Jonah has indeed had interest- ing variants , one of them being that legend of Oannes , the fish - god , emerging from the Red Sea to teach Babylonians the arts ( a saga of ...
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... carry the coffin through , and then hurry it at full speed thrice round the house ; the Siberian Chu- washes fling a red - hot stone after the corpse is carried out , for an obstacle to bar the soul from coming back ; so Brandenburg ...
... carry the coffin through , and then hurry it at full speed thrice round the house ; the Siberian Chu- washes fling a red - hot stone after the corpse is carried out , for an obstacle to bar the soul from coming back ; so Brandenburg ...
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