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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... wings . Angels want birds ' tails . Men have tried to fly . Difference between birds and men . Arms and wings . A writer at fault about this world is not to be trusted in his accounts of another . Bats and similar mammals . The Devil ...
... wings . Angels want birds ' tails . Men have tried to fly . Difference between birds and men . Arms and wings . A writer at fault about this world is not to be trusted in his accounts of another . Bats and similar mammals . The Devil ...
Page xix
... wings . Hymen , the angel of the covenant of marriage . Genius loci and cherubim . Alcmena and Mary . Jupiter and " the power of the Highest . " Roman mythology . Romans ' adopted the Etruscan form of angels . Christians adopted it from ...
... wings . Hymen , the angel of the covenant of marriage . Genius loci and cherubim . Alcmena and Mary . Jupiter and " the power of the Highest . " Roman mythology . Romans ' adopted the Etruscan form of angels . Christians adopted it from ...
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... and omniscient - the giver of all good things , " without whom man is as nothing . " He was said to be " invis- ible , incorporeal , a being of absolute perfection and perfect purity , " " under whose wings men may find 31.
... and omniscient - the giver of all good things , " without whom man is as nothing . " He was said to be " invis- ible , incorporeal , a being of absolute perfection and perfect purity , " " under whose wings men may find 31.
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... wings men may find repose and a sure defence . " But this deity , though single , was subdivided by the Mexican theologians , much in the same way as Jehovah became separated into an innumerable host of angels , archangels , and devils ...
... wings men may find repose and a sure defence . " But this deity , though single , was subdivided by the Mexican theologians , much in the same way as Jehovah became separated into an innumerable host of angels , archangels , and devils ...
Page 278
... in another fragment from Aristophanes , ( Cory , A. F. , p . 293 ) , which tells us that " Night with the black wings first produced an aerial egg , which , in its time gave rise to love , whence sprung all creation . 278.
... in another fragment from Aristophanes , ( Cory , A. F. , p . 293 ) , which tells us that " Night with the black wings first produced an aerial egg , which , in its time gave rise to love , whence sprung all creation . 278.
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