A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...J. Walker, 1807 - Folklore and history |
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... India , where they settled upon the great Erythrean Ocean . The poet has an eye to this likewise in another place , where he speaks of the flight of Bacchus . He paints him in great ter- rors , and in the utmost consternation . 97 ...
... India , where they settled upon the great Erythrean Ocean . The poet has an eye to this likewise in another place , where he speaks of the flight of Bacchus . He paints him in great ter- rors , and in the utmost consternation . 97 ...
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... of a human personage , in some degree blended with a " fish . He sometimes ap- 35 The Indian representation of Ixora , and Vish - Nou . pears alone ; sometimes with three other per- sonages similar 140 THE ANALYSIS OF.
... of a human personage , in some degree blended with a " fish . He sometimes ap- 35 The Indian representation of Ixora , and Vish - Nou . pears alone ; sometimes with three other per- sonages similar 140 THE ANALYSIS OF.
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... India . Αλλα τοι ἑσπεριοις μεν ὁμεριος ύδασιν Ινδος Ταιαν αποτμηγει νοτιον δ ' άλος οιδματ ̓ ΕΡΥΘΡΗΣ Γαγγης d ' εις αυγας , ν . 1132 . The same as the Colchic sea , or Indian Ocean . Ινδώην ἱκετευσεν Ερυθραίην Αφροδίτην . Nonni ...
... India . Αλλα τοι ἑσπεριοις μεν ὁμεριος ύδασιν Ινδος Ταιαν αποτμηγει νοτιον δ ' άλος οιδματ ̓ ΕΡΥΘΡΗΣ Γαγγης d ' εις αυγας , ν . 1132 . The same as the Colchic sea , or Indian Ocean . Ινδώην ἱκετευσεν Ερυθραίην Αφροδίτην . Nonni ...
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... India , and upon the peninsula beyond the Ganges , conferred this name upon the great Indic Ocean . The author of the Periplus wrote professedly about the history of this part of the world ; and the whole is styled the navigation of the ...
... India , and upon the peninsula beyond the Ganges , conferred this name upon the great Indic Ocean . The author of the Periplus wrote professedly about the history of this part of the world ; and the whole is styled the navigation of the ...
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... India one way ; also in the countries called Ethiopia , quite to Maurita- nia , the other . 43 Τε δε τε Χαμ πλεισα μεχρι και νυν εθνη εσιν εν αποςασιᾳ κατα γε τας ΙΝΔΙΑΣ , και Αιθιοπίας , και Μαυριτανίαν εχει δε και εν τοις κατα βοῤῥαν ...
... India one way ; also in the countries called Ethiopia , quite to Maurita- nia , the other . 43 Τε δε τε Χαμ πλεισα μεχρι και νυν εθνη εσιν εν αποςασιᾳ κατα γε τας ΙΝΔΙΑΣ , και Αιθιοπίας , και Μαυριτανίαν εχει δε και εν τοις κατα βοῤῥαν ...
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Abydenus Ægyptus æra Africanus afterwards ages Alexander Polyhistor alluded Amenophis Amosis antient Apollodorus apud Arabia Ararat Armenia Arrian Babel Babylon Babylonia Bacchus Belus Berosus Bochart called Canaan Chaldea Chron Colchis consequence Cronus Cutha Cuthites Deity deluge Diodorus Dionys dispersion dynasty earth Egypt Egyptians Erythrean Ethiopians Euseb Eusebius Gods Grecians Greece Greeks Hellenes Hence Herodotus Hesiod Ibid Indus Israelites Josephus king land language learned Manethon mankind mentioned mistake Mizraim Moses mountain nations natives Nimrod Oannes original Perieg person Præp princes Ptolemy region reign river sacred says Scythia Sethon Shepherds shew shewn Shinar signified sons of Chus speaks Strabo styled supposed Syncell Syncellus takes notice term Tigris tion Titanian Titans tower whence worship writers γαρ δε δια εις εκ εν Ενθα εξ επι και κατα μεν παρα περι προς τας τε τες τοις ύπο Χαμ
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Page 24 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Page 24 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 38 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Page 341 - Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 18 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 24 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 83 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 284 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Page 36 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Page 24 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.