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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... referred to . History of Carticeya . Christian parallels . Immaculate conception a Hindoo myth . The dove in India and Christendom . Agni and cloven fiery tongues . Penance and its powers . Miraculous conception by means of a dove ...
... referred to . History of Carticeya . Christian parallels . Immaculate conception a Hindoo myth . The dove in India and Christendom . Agni and cloven fiery tongues . Penance and its powers . Miraculous conception by means of a dove ...
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... referred to . Yet , though the temptation is great , and although we feel justified in reasoning from the known to the unknown , and in supplying missing links from analogy , or from our own imagination , still , we consider that it ...
... referred to . Yet , though the temptation is great , and although we feel justified in reasoning from the known to the unknown , and in supplying missing links from analogy , or from our own imagination , still , we consider that it ...
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... referred to , I may here quote , from memory , a note from Stevens ' Central America , to the effect that the bronze tools found in Yucatan , & c . , amongst the quarries whence the stone for the ancient temples was procured , are ...
... referred to , I may here quote , from memory , a note from Stevens ' Central America , to the effect that the bronze tools found in Yucatan , & c . , amongst the quarries whence the stone for the ancient temples was procured , are ...
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... referred to by us , there is a picture which represents a cock with a lingam instead of a head and beak ; on its pediment there is in Greek the words , soteer kosmou , " the saviour of the world . " This is also an epithet of Siva , and ...
... referred to by us , there is a picture which represents a cock with a lingam instead of a head and beak ; on its pediment there is in Greek the words , soteer kosmou , " the saviour of the world . " This is also an epithet of Siva , and ...
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... referred to in Ps . civ . 1-4 - they are not deities , but ministers . It will probably be said by the orthodox that these descrip- tions of the creation and the Creator are mere efforts of the human mind , and not the products of ...
... referred to in Ps . civ . 1-4 - they are not deities , but ministers . It will probably be said by the orthodox that these descrip- tions of the creation and the Creator are mere efforts of the human mind , and not the products of ...
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