Demonology and Devil-lore, 1. kötetH. Holt, 1879 |
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xvi. oldal
... Ancient Persian Medal 6. Hercules and the Hydra ( Louvre ) 7. Japanese Demon 8. Cerberus ( Calmet ) 9. Canine Lar ( Herculaneum ) 10. The Wolf as Confessor ( probably Dutch ) 11. Singhalese Demon of Serpents 12. American Indian Demon ...
... Ancient Persian Medal 6. Hercules and the Hydra ( Louvre ) 7. Japanese Demon 8. Cerberus ( Calmet ) 9. Canine Lar ( Herculaneum ) 10. The Wolf as Confessor ( probably Dutch ) 11. Singhalese Demon of Serpents 12. American Indian Demon ...
3. oldal
... ancient temples are covered with symbols combining sun and snake , and no form is more familiar in Egypt than the solar serpent standing erect upon its tail , with rays around its head . Nor is this high relationship of the adored ...
... ancient temples are covered with symbols combining sun and snake , and no form is more familiar in Egypt than the solar serpent standing erect upon its tail , with rays around its head . Nor is this high relationship of the adored ...
4. oldal
... ancient Northern religions , and often recog- nised as examples of tree - worship ; but it also appeared that around the cauldron a mock zodiacal circle was drawn , and that every herb employed was alleged to have derived its potency ...
... ancient Northern religions , and often recog- nised as examples of tree - worship ; but it also appeared that around the cauldron a mock zodiacal circle was drawn , and that every herb employed was alleged to have derived its potency ...
5. oldal
... ancient hymns , the designations of exalted objects are so little descriptive of them , that we may refer them to a period anterior to the formation of that refined and com- plex symbolism by which primitive religions have acquired a ...
... ancient hymns , the designations of exalted objects are so little descriptive of them , that we may refer them to a period anterior to the formation of that refined and com- plex symbolism by which primitive religions have acquired a ...
16. oldal
... ancient tendency by which the Furies and Vices have , with scandalous con- stancy , been described in the feminine gender . The close resemblance between these two names of Hindu mythology , severally representing the best and the worst ...
... ancient tendency by which the Furies and Vices have , with scandalous con- stancy , been described in the feminine gender . The close resemblance between these two names of Hindu mythology , severally representing the best and the worst ...
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ages Agni Ahriman amid ancient angel animal appear ascribed Azazel bear beautiful belief Brimir burning called character Chimæra christian dance darkness dead death deities demonolatry Demonology demons demons and devils desert devouring diseases dragon dread Drisa earth evil eyes fables fear fiery fire flames folklore giant goat goddess gods Gog and Magog hand haunted head heaven hell Hindu holy horse human hymns India Indra Jehovah king legend light Max Müller means Moloch monster moon mountain myth mythology nature night Odin origin passed Perun popular præternatural priests primitive probably race regions religion represented Rig-Veda rock Rudra sacred sacrifice Sanskrit Saranyu Satan says seen serpent seven snake soul spirits stone story superstition survival temple teraphim terror thee thou tion tree tribes Typhon vampyre Vedic Vritra werewolf wild witch wolf word worship
Népszerű szakaszok
229. oldal - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
341. oldal - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
344. oldal - Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
332. oldal - He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
185. oldal - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat...
167. oldal - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
81. oldal - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
81. oldal - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
332. oldal - In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
386. oldal - My lord bishop, I here present you with the falchion wherewith the champion Conyers slew the worm, dragon, or fiery flying serpent, which destroyed man, woman, and child ; in memory of which, the king then reigning gave him the manor of Sockburn, to hold by this tenure, that upon the first entrance of every bishop into the county, this falchion should be presented.