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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Page viii
... Roman Lucretia , who committed suicide , her body having been forcibly defiled by the embraces of another than her ... Romans and Greeks for obscenities prac- tised in honour of their gods ; but , at the same time , we feel sure that ...
... Roman Lucretia , who committed suicide , her body having been forcibly defiled by the embraces of another than her ... Romans and Greeks for obscenities prac- tised in honour of their gods ; but , at the same time , we feel sure that ...
Page xii
... Romans , Turks , Tartars , Saracens , Affghans , Maho- metans , and Hindoos , and believe that the good God drowned the whole world , and nearly every single thing that had life ; that He ordered the extermination , not only of Midi ...
... Romans , Turks , Tartars , Saracens , Affghans , Maho- metans , and Hindoos , and believe that the good God drowned the whole world , and nearly every single thing that had life ; that He ordered the extermination , not only of Midi ...
Page xvii
... 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 , 450 B.C. Degeneracy of original Faith . Missionaries from China to ...
... 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 , 450 B.C. Degeneracy of original Faith . Missionaries from China to ...
Page xviii
... Roman notions . Romulus , son of Mars and a Vestal . Augustus , son of Apollo . Modern ideas respecting Incubi . Prevalence of the belief . Its suppression . Causes of its origin . Bible made to pander to priestly lust . Dictionnaire ...
... Roman notions . Romulus , son of Mars and a Vestal . Augustus , son of Apollo . Modern ideas respecting Incubi . Prevalence of the belief . Its suppression . Causes of its origin . Bible made to pander to priestly lust . Dictionnaire ...
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... Roman mythology . Romans ' adopted the Etruscan form of angels . Christians adopted it from Romans . The Christian crozier is the Etruscan and Roman lituus , or " divining staff . " Rome and London both avid of religious novelty ...
... Roman mythology . Romans ' adopted the Etruscan form of angels . Christians adopted it from Romans . The Christian crozier is the Etruscan and Roman lituus , or " divining staff . " Rome and London both avid of religious novelty ...
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