Myths and DreamsChatto and Windus, 1885 - 251 páginas |
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... Darkness ( f ) The Devil IV . THE SOLAR THEORY OF MYTH V. BELIEF IN METAMORPHOSIS INTO ANIMALS VI . TOTEMISM : BELIEF IN DESCENT FROM ANIMAL OR PLANT · VII . SURVIVAL OF MYTH IN HISTORY VIII . MYTH AMONG THE HEBREWS IX . CONCLUSION • 99 ...
... Darkness ( f ) The Devil IV . THE SOLAR THEORY OF MYTH V. BELIEF IN METAMORPHOSIS INTO ANIMALS VI . TOTEMISM : BELIEF IN DESCENT FROM ANIMAL OR PLANT · VII . SURVIVAL OF MYTH IN HISTORY VIII . MYTH AMONG THE HEBREWS IX . CONCLUSION • 99 ...
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... dark sky , during the absence of the sun in the nether world . Thus originated the moon , whose paleness is owing to ... darkness around them till one of their many ancestors , who still shine from the stars , shed- ding good and evil ...
... dark sky , during the absence of the sun in the nether world . Thus originated the moon , whose paleness is owing to ... darkness around them till one of their many ancestors , who still shine from the stars , shed- ding good and evil ...
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... dark to caress her . She , wishing to find out who her lover was , blackened her hands so that the marks might be left on him , which accounts for the spots . The Khasias of the Himâlaya say that the moon falls in love every month with ...
... dark to caress her . She , wishing to find out who her lover was , blackened her hands so that the marks might be left on him , which accounts for the spots . The Khasias of the Himâlaya say that the moon falls in love every month with ...
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... darkness rested on them and their children , who debated whether they should rend them asunder or slay them . Then Tane - mahuta , father of forests , reasoned that it was better to rend them , so that the heaven might become a stranger ...
... darkness rested on them and their children , who debated whether they should rend them asunder or slay them . Then Tane - mahuta , father of forests , reasoned that it was better to rend them , so that the heaven might become a stranger ...
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... dark , wildly drifting , wildly hunting , " himself rushing on his foe , snapping the huge trees that barred his path , and strewing their trunks and branches on the ground , while the sea was lashed into high - crested waves , and all ...
... dark , wildly drifting , wildly hunting , " himself rushing on his foe , snapping the huge trees that barred his path , and strewing their trunks and branches on the ground , while the sea was lashed into high - crested waves , and all ...
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A. B. GROSART Abipones Algonquin ancestors ancient animals Aryan Aryan Nations beast bird body breath CHARLES civilised cloth extra cloth limp Coloured conception Cronus Crown 8vo custom dark dead death deity demons Demy 8vo disease doctrine dreams earth Edited Eskimo Essays existence eyes familiar spirit Fcap folk-lore folk-tales Frontispiece ghost gilt gods Greek Grimm's law heart heaven Hebrew HENRY VAN LAUN human ideas Illus illustrated boards Indian killed Koshchei language legend lest living Love man's Max Müller meaning mediæval mind moon myth mythology nature night notions Novels numerous Illustrations origin passed phenomena PICCADILLY NOVELS play Poems Portrait Post 8vo primitive prince Punchkin races relics religion round Sanskrit savage shadow Sheol sleep solar sorcerer soul spirit stone story survival tells theory things thought Three Vols tion totem tree tribes Vritra whilst wind words
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