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... mothers their sons , and the people preserved at least one rite of which a human sacrifice was part . The story of the offering of Polyxene on the tomb of Achilles , as told by the herald Talthybios in the Hekabe , shows how clearly the ...
... mothers their sons , and the people preserved at least one rite of which a human sacrifice was part . The story of the offering of Polyxene on the tomb of Achilles , as told by the herald Talthybios in the Hekabe , shows how clearly the ...
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... mother was attending , is caught by the votaries with the help of the god and torn limb from limb , while his mother , stricken with the divine madness , bears his head upon her wand , supposing it to be the head of a B boar caught in ...
... mother was attending , is caught by the votaries with the help of the god and torn limb from limb , while his mother , stricken with the divine madness , bears his head upon her wand , supposing it to be the head of a B boar caught in ...
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... mother at that moment of recognition . The poet represents the death of Pentheus as the penalty for his disbelief and for his profanation of the sacred ceremonies . It was really a sacrifice to Aióvσos wvnons , wrought by the mother of ...
... mother at that moment of recognition . The poet represents the death of Pentheus as the penalty for his disbelief and for his profanation of the sacred ceremonies . It was really a sacrifice to Aióvσos wvnons , wrought by the mother of ...
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... mother with her daughter , both fair to look upon , become the central deities . The other things , still there with their offensive associations , were explained away . The realities were Demeter and Kore . The animal god , the bird ...
... mother with her daughter , both fair to look upon , become the central deities . The other things , still there with their offensive associations , were explained away . The realities were Demeter and Kore . The animal god , the bird ...
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... mother , gloating that she has been able to inflict suffering upon him by killing them , says : οἶδ ̓ οὐκέτ ̓ εἰσί ... mother's hand that slew them has armed them with their awful power , and did not have the daring to disarm them . They ...
... mother , gloating that she has been able to inflict suffering upon him by killing them , says : οἶδ ̓ οὐκέτ ̓ εἰσί ... mother's hand that slew them has armed them with their awful power , and did not have the daring to disarm them . They ...
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Page 12 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Page 23 - Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
Page 84 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna : for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Page 168 - And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul...
Page 157 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
Page 157 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 23 - And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Page 12 - For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
Page 105 - All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Page 117 - They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; violence covereth them as a garment.