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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... , Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist Thomas Inman. Bought 1576 . COPYRIGHTED BY J. W. BOUTON . 1875 . TO THOSE WHO THIRST AFTER KNOWLEDGE , AND ARE NOT H.D. REL . ING.
... , Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist Thomas Inman. Bought 1576 . COPYRIGHTED BY J. W. BOUTON . 1875 . TO THOSE WHO THIRST AFTER KNOWLEDGE , AND ARE NOT H.D. REL . ING.
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... KNOWLEDGE , AND ARE NOT DETERRED FROM SEEKING IT BY THE FEAR OF IMAGINARY DANGERS , THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED , WITH GREAT RESPECT , BY THE AUTHOR . “ Οὗτοι δὲ ἦσαν εὐγενέστεροι τῶν ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ , οἵτινες ἐδέξαντο τὸν λόγον μετὰ πάσης ...
... KNOWLEDGE , AND ARE NOT DETERRED FROM SEEKING IT BY THE FEAR OF IMAGINARY DANGERS , THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED , WITH GREAT RESPECT , BY THE AUTHOR . “ Οὗτοι δὲ ἦσαν εὐγενέστεροι τῶν ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ , οἵτινες ἐδέξαντο τὸν λόγον μετὰ πάσης ...
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... knowledge . Advance and retrogression . China and Japan - influence of strangers . Decadence of nations - followed by a rise . The Shemitic and Negro races . Varied religious ideas . The Negro Fetish and Obi . Jewish , Arab , and ...
... knowledge . Advance and retrogression . China and Japan - influence of strangers . Decadence of nations - followed by a rise . The Shemitic and Negro races . Varied religious ideas . The Negro Fetish and Obi . Jewish , Arab , and ...
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... knowledge . Travels of Fah Hian , their expe- rience and remarks . Quotations from their writings . Footprints of Buddha and Peter . Immaculate conception of Sakya . Old Simeon - a repetition . Wise men from the East . St Ursula . Three ...
... knowledge . Travels of Fah Hian , their expe- rience and remarks . Quotations from their writings . Footprints of Buddha and Peter . Immaculate conception of Sakya . Old Simeon - a repetition . Wise men from the East . St Ursula . Three ...
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... knowledge of natural history . To such an extent was this symbolism , to which we refer , carried , that the sexual idea of the Creator at last pervaded , to a greater or less degree , all forms of worship , and gradually degraded them ...
... knowledge of natural history . To such an extent was this symbolism , to which we refer , carried , that the sexual idea of the Creator at last pervaded , to a greater or less degree , all forms of worship , and gradually degraded them ...
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