Grecian and Roman MythologyPutnam, 1849 - 451 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xvii
... worship of nature . In Hesiod , however , much of the Orphic or mystical aspect is lost , and it all comes out without disguise a mere cosmogony , instead of a true theism or even polytheism , -in other words , a mere system of physics ...
... worship of nature . In Hesiod , however , much of the Orphic or mystical aspect is lost , and it all comes out without disguise a mere cosmogony , instead of a true theism or even polytheism , -in other words , a mere system of physics ...
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... worship that was paid to them . The Assyrians and Phoni- cians were taught by the Egyptians ; the Greeks by the Egyp tians in the first instance , and at second hand by the Thracians and Pelasgi ; and the Grecians in their turn taught ...
... worship that was paid to them . The Assyrians and Phoni- cians were taught by the Egyptians ; the Greeks by the Egyp tians in the first instance , and at second hand by the Thracians and Pelasgi ; and the Grecians in their turn taught ...
الصفحة 7
... worship had taken rise . These , the philosophers and wisest of the priests would not al- low to be gods ; such as the Theban Hercules , Esculapius , Castor and Pollux , because they had once been men . The others were the Cabeirim or ...
... worship had taken rise . These , the philosophers and wisest of the priests would not al- low to be gods ; such as the Theban Hercules , Esculapius , Castor and Pollux , because they had once been men . The others were the Cabeirim or ...
الصفحة 8
... worship . In the contest for power , as related by the poets , Giants are brought in opposition to the gods ; and from this mythological fic- . tion it may be inferred , that the ancients did not ascribe to their gods immense magnitude ...
... worship . In the contest for power , as related by the poets , Giants are brought in opposition to the gods ; and from this mythological fic- . tion it may be inferred , that the ancients did not ascribe to their gods immense magnitude ...
الصفحة 9
... worship of their deities . In the earliest instances , they were contented with erecting altars in the open air , either of earth or ashes , and sometimes resorted for purposes of worship , to the depths of solitary woods . At length ...
... worship of their deities . In the earliest instances , they were contented with erecting altars in the open air , either of earth or ashes , and sometimes resorted for purposes of worship , to the depths of solitary woods . At length ...
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الصفحة 198 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
الصفحة 170 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
الصفحة 208 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
الصفحة 166 - Aricia, &c. She was supposed to be the same as the Isis of the Egyptians, whose worship was introduced into Greece with that of Osiris under the name of Apollo.
الصفحة 141 - Eleusis by a place called the mystical entrance. On the seventh day were sports, in which the victors were rewarded with a measure of barley, as that grain had been first sown in Eleusis. The eighth day...
الصفحة 93 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
الصفحة 56 - This monster had the face of a woman, the body and feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird...
الصفحة 87 - JEther or pure invisible Fire ', the most subtle and elastic of all bodies, seems to pervade and expand itself throughout the whole universe. If air be the immediate agent or instrument in natural things, it is the pure invisible fire that is the first natural mover or spring from whence the air derives its power (sect.
الصفحة 202 - Some represent him lame and deformed, holding a hammer, raised in the air, ready to strike; while, with the other hand, he turns with pincers a thunderbolt on his anvil. He appears, on some monuments, with a long beard, dishevelled hair, half naked, and a small round cap on his head, while he holds a hammer and pincers in his hand.
الصفحة 293 - Hercules so frequently represented as the sungod, and his twelve labors regarded as the passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac. He is the powerful planet which animates and imparts fecundity to the universe, whose divinity has been honored in every quarter by temples and altars, and consecrated in the religious strains of all nations.