 Hercules so frequently represented as the sungod, and his twelve labors regarded as the passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac. He is the powerful planet which animates and imparts fecundity to the universe, whose divinity has been...  Grecian and Roman Mythology - 293. oldalszerző: Mary Ann Dwight - 1849 - 451 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | John Lemprière - 1827 - 938 oldal
...learned though singular theory of Dupuis, is no other than the Sun, and his twelve labours aro only a figurative representation of the annual course of...the zodiac. He is the powerful planet which animates anJ imparts fecundity to the universe, whose divinity has been ho noured in every quarter by temples... | |
 | Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva - 1833 - 412 oldal
...Tinder this appellation was typified the sun, the twelve labors of the" hero," being nothing more than a figurative representation of the annual course of that luminary through the twelve signs of the zodiac.— See Porp. Sch. He». nity.* Strabo describes this pyratheia (xv) or... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1838 - 350 oldal
...of the sun through the twelve signs of the Zodiac ; Hercules being put for the sun, inasmuch as it is the powerful planet which animates and imparts fecundity to the universe, and whose divinity has been honoured, in every quarter, by temples and altars, and consecrated in the... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1848 - 488 oldal
...ii. 144, a.) is no other than the Sun, and that his twelve celebrated labours were nothing else than a figurative representation of the annual course of...fecundity to the universe, whose divinity has been honoured in every quarter by temples and altars, and consecrated in the religious strains of all nations.... | |
 | Mary Ann Dwight - 1864 - 356 oldal
...the goddess of eternal youth, became. according to the decree of Fate, the spouse of the new deity. Heracles, according to the theory of Dupuis and others,...annual course of that luminary through the signs of tho zodiac. He is the powerful planet which animates and imparts fecundity to the universe ; whose... | |
 | Mary Ann Dwight - 1871 - 342 oldal
...the goddess of eternal youth, became, according to the decree of Fate, the spouse of the new deity. Heracles, according to the theory of Dupuis and others,...consecrated in the religious theories of all nations. To illustrate the fable of his labors (altering the order in which they are usually given), let us... | |
 | Ellet Joseph Waggoner - 1888 - 404 oldal
...represented as the sungod, and his twelve labors regarded as the passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac. He is the powerful planet which...universe, whose divinity has been honored in every quarter by temples and altars, and consecrated in the religious strains of all nations. From Meroe, in Ethiopia,... | |
 | Alonzo Trévier Jones - 1891 - 1046 oldal
...represented as the sun-god, and his twelve labors regarded as the passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac. He is the' powerful planet which...universe, whose divinity has been honored in every quarter by temples and altars, and consecrated in the religious strains of all nations. From Meroe in Ethiopia,... | |
 | Firdawsī - 1892 - 450 oldal
...of Dupuis, Hercules is considered as no other than the sun, and his twelve labours are regarded as a representation of the annual course of that luminary through the signs of the Zodiac. In the Shah Nameh, Isfendiyar has also his seven labours as well as Rustem, and both consist in the... | |
 | H. A. St. John - 1894 - 576 oldal
...represented as the sun god, and his twelve labors regarded as the passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac. He is the powerful planet which animates and imparts fecundity to the universe. it is under the name of Hercules Astrochyton, or the god clothed with a mantle of stars, that the poet... | |
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