 | Adolf Portmann, Rudolf Ritsema - 1977 - 496 oldal
..."if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do what men can do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses and cattle like cattle ..."8S A specific complaint against Homer and Hesiod is that they have "attributed to the gods everything... | |
 | Stanley Ned Rosenbaum - 2002 - 366 oldal
...marks inscribed on some figures express the wish for twin foals. 7 As we said, it may be so. 4 "If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able..."If triangles had a god, he would have three sides." 5 It is no accident that one name for aberrant behavior is "lunacy" ("moonstruck"). Lupus, the condition... | |
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own. 