The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... frequent : -the character or the strength of a beast , the peculiar form or properties of a natural body , and the explanation of these things , propagated itself , according to Pausanias , as a myth . Still more occasion was furnished ...
... frequent : -the character or the strength of a beast , the peculiar form or properties of a natural body , and the explanation of these things , propagated itself , according to Pausanias , as a myth . Still more occasion was furnished ...
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... frequently an apparent similarity ; and since the antiquities of the mythical ages were so darkly and enigmatically treated by their first transmitters , who , according to all probability , knew far more than they made . known ...
... frequently an apparent similarity ; and since the antiquities of the mythical ages were so darkly and enigmatically treated by their first transmitters , who , according to all probability , knew far more than they made . known ...
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... frequently seen in the representation of the mysteries . Demeter was called the Cabiric Saviour , as we have seen Hercules in the same character . Herodotus also says that Isis means the same as the Greek Demeter ( while Plutarch frequently ...
... frequently seen in the representation of the mysteries . Demeter was called the Cabiric Saviour , as we have seen Hercules in the same character . Herodotus also says that Isis means the same as the Greek Demeter ( while Plutarch frequently ...
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... frequently confounded with Cybele . Vesta was also frequently depicted with lightnings in her hand . With this accords a remarkable picture in the work of Raoul Rochette - Monumens d'Antiquité figurée , tab . 58 - which is unmistakeably ...
... frequently confounded with Cybele . Vesta was also frequently depicted with lightnings in her hand . With this accords a remarkable picture in the work of Raoul Rochette - Monumens d'Antiquité figurée , tab . 58 - which is unmistakeably ...
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... frequently confounded , is identical with the Cabiric worship , and that the agricultural religion , which taught the all- nurturing power of mother nature in all the different seasons of the year , arose originally from an observance ...
... frequently confounded , is identical with the Cabiric worship , and that the agricultural religion , which taught the all- nurturing power of mother nature in all the different seasons of the year , arose originally from an observance ...
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