Ancient Faiths and Modern: A Dissertation Upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist |
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... Greeks for obscenities prac- tised in honour of their gods ; but , at the same time , we feel sure that , had those apostles and teachers lived in the middle ages , they would have denounced , with greater warmth , the murders which ...
... Greeks for obscenities prac- tised in honour of their gods ; but , at the same time , we feel sure that , had those apostles and teachers lived in the middle ages , they would have denounced , with greater warmth , the murders which ...
Page xvii
... Greeks , temp . Aristophanes . Indian elephants in army of Darius . Roman traffic with India , B.C. 30. Buddhist missionaries . The gift of tongues . Rise of Asceticism in Western Asia . Essenes again . Collection of Buddhist writings ...
... Greeks , temp . Aristophanes . Indian elephants in army of Darius . Roman traffic with India , B.C. 30. Buddhist missionaries . The gift of tongues . Rise of Asceticism in Western Asia . Essenes again . Collection of Buddhist writings ...
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... Greek theology . The Greeks taught the Jews . The Jews never taught other nations . Greeks had a supreme god and a host of inferior deities . War in Heaven . Titans - giants . Children of the sons of God and daughters of men . Greek ...
... Greek theology . The Greeks taught the Jews . The Jews never taught other nations . Greeks had a supreme god and a host of inferior deities . War in Heaven . Titans - giants . Children of the sons of God and daughters of men . Greek ...
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... Greek ideas of demons . Hebrew and Christian ideas of good and bad spirits . The recording angel . Demigods and archangels . Greek deities not winged except Mercury . Some minor gods have pinions - Pegasus has wings . Hymen , the angel ...
... Greek ideas of demons . Hebrew and Christian ideas of good and bad spirits . The recording angel . Demigods and archangels . Greek deities not winged except Mercury . Some minor gods have pinions - Pegasus has wings . Hymen , the angel ...
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... Greek idea of Jupiter and his inferior deities ; that the Hebrews regarded Jehovah as having human passions and very human failings as loving , revengeful , stern , merry , and vacillating - as " everything by turns and nothing long ...
... Greek idea of Jupiter and his inferior deities ; that the Hebrews regarded Jehovah as having human passions and very human failings as loving , revengeful , stern , merry , and vacillating - as " everything by turns and nothing long ...
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