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... women's clothes , because Hercules exchanged clothes with Omphale , thus expressing the magnetic polarity attached to the same individual ; had Pliny known that this slavish Herculean strength bound to the stone can come forth as winged ...
... women's clothes , because Hercules exchanged clothes with Omphale , thus expressing the magnetic polarity attached to the same individual ; had Pliny known that this slavish Herculean strength bound to the stone can come forth as winged ...
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... woman . Wishing- women were employed precisely as Swan - maidens ; and Woutan appeared in the Wishing - cap . " In the Samothracian mysteries all the so - called greater gods stood in alliance with each other . Not only those already ...
... woman . Wishing- women were employed precisely as Swan - maidens ; and Woutan appeared in the Wishing - cap . " In the Samothracian mysteries all the so - called greater gods stood in alliance with each other . Not only those already ...
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... women celebrated the Bacchanalin with Indian and Thracian customs . From Thracia the worship spread itself towards the north as far as the Ister and to the ocean . The diffusion of his worship was repre- sented under the form of a ...
... women celebrated the Bacchanalin with Indian and Thracian customs . From Thracia the worship spread itself towards the north as far as the Ister and to the ocean . The diffusion of his worship was repre- sented under the form of a ...
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... women , of whom they carried two about with them , was of a very dubious kind , as they prophesied the end of things ; and Maximilla even asserted that no other prophetess would come after her . The interpretation of the Apostolical ...
... women , of whom they carried two about with them , was of a very dubious kind , as they prophesied the end of things ; and Maximilla even asserted that no other prophetess would come after her . The interpretation of the Apostolical ...
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... women , whom he commanded to prophesy . Montan and his disciples reckoned prophe- sying as spiritual gifts , and boasted openly of their pro- phetic visions . Irenæus did not contradict them , and Ter- tullian honoured them . He ...
... women , whom he commanded to prophesy . Montan and his disciples reckoned prophe- sying as spiritual gifts , and boasted openly of their pro- phetic visions . Irenæus did not contradict them , and Ter- tullian honoured them . He ...
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