A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...J. Walker, 1807 |
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... esteemed princely and noble . Hence the red , or scarlet , a colour appropriated to great and honourable personages , was styled Phoinic . The palm was also styled Phoinic , ov : and the an- tients always speak of it as a stately and ...
... esteemed princely and noble . Hence the red , or scarlet , a colour appropriated to great and honourable personages , was styled Phoinic . The palm was also styled Phoinic , ov : and the an- tients always speak of it as a stately and ...
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... esteemed holy by this sacred title , referred the whole to hieroglyphics , and gave out that they were all represented under the figure of a dog . And it is possible , that in later times the Grecian artists , " It is possibly alluded ...
... esteemed holy by this sacred title , referred the whole to hieroglyphics , and gave out that they were all represented under the figure of a dog . And it is possible , that in later times the Grecian artists , " It is possibly alluded ...
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... esteemed a female , and the wife of that per- sonage . Plutarch . ibid . The Ape and Monkey were held sacred , not in Egypt only , but in India , and likewise in a part of Africa . Diodorus Sicul . 1. 20 . p . 793. Maffeus mentions a ...
... esteemed a female , and the wife of that per- sonage . Plutarch . ibid . The Ape and Monkey were held sacred , not in Egypt only , but in India , and likewise in a part of Africa . Diodorus Sicul . 1. 20 . p . 793. Maffeus mentions a ...
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... esteemed it a very serious and religious mode of attestation : and under these terms made a solemn appeal to the son of 47 Zeus . The purport of the words is ob- vious and whatever hidden meaning there may have been , the oath was made ...
... esteemed it a very serious and religious mode of attestation : and under these terms made a solemn appeal to the son of 47 Zeus . The purport of the words is ob- vious and whatever hidden meaning there may have been , the oath was made ...
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... esteemed passages to the realms below . Such were in Messenia , in Argolis , in Bithynia , and at Enna in Sicily ; not to men- tion divers other places . These temples were often named Kir - Abor ; and the Deity Chan- Ades ; out of ...
... esteemed passages to the realms below . Such were in Messenia , in Argolis , in Bithynia , and at Enna in Sicily ; not to men- tion divers other places . These temples were often named Kir - Abor ; and the Deity Chan- Ades ; out of ...
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æra alluded altar Amonians antient Apollo apud Babylonia Boeotia built Byzant Cadmians Cadmus Cahen called Canaan Chaldea Chron Clemens Colchis Cuthites Cyclopes Cyclopians Deity denominated Diodorus Sic Diodorus Siculus Dionusus dragon Egypt Egyptians esteemed Euseb fire Grecians Greece Greeks Hence Hercules Hermes Herodotus Hivites Homer Hymn Ibid island Jupiter king likewise Lycophron mentioned nations natives Nonnus Odyss Ophel Ophite Orpheus Orus Osiris Pausan Pausanias Perseus person personage Phrygia Pliny Plutarch Poets priests purport rendered represented rites river sacred says Schol Scholia Scholiast Semiramis serpent Sesostris settled shepherd shew shewn Sicily Sicul signified sons of Chus speaks Steph Stephanus Strabo styled Suidas supposed swans Syria takes notice temple term Thrace tion tomb towers whence worship writers Zoroaster γαρ δε δι εις εκ εν ην και κατα μεν παρ παρα περι πολις τας τε τοις ὡς
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Página 73 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 68 - This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Página 43 - Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow : for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Página 68 - And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
Página 164 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Página 7 - The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Página 275 - Nigh the cursed shore, and listen to the lay. No more that wretch shall view the joys of life, His blooming offspring, or his beauteous wife ! In verdant meads they sport ; and wide around Lie human bones, that whiten all the ground : The ground polluted floats with human gore, And human carnage taints the dreadful shore.
Página 7 - Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments : they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
Página 274 - Next, where the Sirens dwell, you plough the seas; Their song is death, and makes destruction please. Unblest the man, whom music wins to stay Nigh the cursed shore, and listen to the lay...
Página 131 - Dissert. 8, c. vi. p. 85.) that Taxiles, a mighty prince of India, carried Alexander the Great to see a dragon, which was sacred to Dionusus, and itself esteemed a god. It was of a stupendous size, being in extent equal to five acres, and resided in a low, deep place, walled round to a great height. The Indians offered sacrifices to it, and it was daily fed by them from their flocks and herds.