Outlines of Primitive Belief Among the Indo-European RacesC. Scribner's Sons, 1882 - 534 pagina's |
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Pagina 50
... lived in caves or beneath trees , never in houses . I do not know whether they were really so primitive a race as he supposes - whether , I mean , their culture may not have declined . This is always the point difficult to decide about ...
... lived in caves or beneath trees , never in houses . I do not know whether they were really so primitive a race as he supposes - whether , I mean , their culture may not have declined . This is always the point difficult to decide about ...
Pagina 58
... lived upon roots and berries , or on the lesser animals and the vermin which he gathered from the soil , and so habit as well as nature kept his eyes fixed upon the ground . We need not therefore wonder if , in their half - glances ...
... lived upon roots and berries , or on the lesser animals and the vermin which he gathered from the soil , and so habit as well as nature kept his eyes fixed upon the ground . We need not therefore wonder if , in their half - glances ...
Pagina 62
... lived hard by one of the roots of this tree of life . The divining rod has inherited its qualities from the divining tree . The prophetic powers of mountains resided generally in their caves . The wise women , or witches , of heathen ...
... lived hard by one of the roots of this tree of life . The divining rod has inherited its qualities from the divining tree . The prophetic powers of mountains resided generally in their caves . The wise women , or witches , of heathen ...
Pagina 63
... lived than man ( nay , perhaps immortal ; for who could remember when it had not been there ? ) , so kind , so protecting ; surpassing us in size and strength , even as a god surpasses mortals ? That man was born of a god has always ...
... lived than man ( nay , perhaps immortal ; for who could remember when it had not been there ? ) , so kind , so protecting ; surpassing us in size and strength , even as a god surpasses mortals ? That man was born of a god has always ...
Pagina 64
... lived beneath the tree or hung upon its branches , and nourished himself partly on its fruits - a pygmy compared to all the rest of nature - and that later humanity , his descendants , which counted in its ranks such a race of heroes as ...
... lived beneath the tree or hung upon its branches , and nourished himself partly on its fruits - a pygmy compared to all the rest of nature - and that later humanity , his descendants , which counted in its ranks such a race of heroes as ...
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Outlines of Primitive Belief Among the Indo-European Races Charles Francis Keary Volledige weergave - 1882 |
Outlines of Primitive Belief Among the Indo-European Races Charles Francis Keary Volledige weergave - 1882 |
Outlines of Primitive Belief Among the Indo-European Races Charles Francis Keary Volledige weergave - 1882 |
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abstract Æsir Agni ancient Apollo Aryaman Aryan Aryas Ask and Embla Asvin Athênê belongs called chapter character clouds creed dawn dead death Dêmêtêr Dionysus divinity Dyâus earth goddess Edda Eleusinia Eleusis emotion example express fetich fire gods Greece Greek Hadês heaven henotheism Hêra Heracles Hermês hero history of belief holy Homer human hymns idea imagination Indian Indo-European Indra instinct Jörmungandr kind Kronos land language magic Maruts Max Müller meaning mind Mitra and Varuna moral morning mountain mysteries myth mythic mythology nations nature worship never Odhinn Odysseus once origin Persephonê phase of belief phenomena physical primitive Prithivi race religion religious Rig Veda rites river root sacred Sanskrit Savitar sense serpent soul storm story stream suppose Teutonic things Thorr thou thought tree Varuna Vedas Vedic Völuspá Vritra wanderings Wherefore wind word Yggdrasill Zeus
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Pagina 123 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!