The Veil of Isis, Or, The Mysteries of the DruidsC.J. Skeet, 1861 - 250 Seiten |
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... Greeks , the Odin of Scandinavia , the Hu of the Britons , and the Baiwe of the Laplanders . Isis also received the names of Islene , Ceres , Rhea , Venus , Vesta , Cybele , Niobe , Melissa - Nehalennia in the North ; Isi with the ...
... Greeks , the Odin of Scandinavia , the Hu of the Britons , and the Baiwe of the Laplanders . Isis also received the names of Islene , Ceres , Rhea , Venus , Vesta , Cybele , Niobe , Melissa - Nehalennia in the North ; Isi with the ...
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... Greeks and Romans who were poets , wreathed these names into legends . a person , each person was a god . Each name was From these stories of the stars originated the angels of the Jews , the genii of the Arabs , the heroes of the Greeks ...
... Greeks and Romans who were poets , wreathed these names into legends . a person , each person was a god . Each name was From these stories of the stars originated the angels of the Jews , the genii of the Arabs , the heroes of the Greeks ...
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... Greeks de- siring to preserve to posterity repaired in so many different ways , that at length there did not remain a fragment of that vessel which had borne to Colchis the conqueror of the Golden Fleece . Let us pass over a lapse of ...
... Greeks de- siring to preserve to posterity repaired in so many different ways , that at length there did not remain a fragment of that vessel which had borne to Colchis the conqueror of the Golden Fleece . Let us pass over a lapse of ...
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... Greeks , and it is probable that these ( who certainly did migrate to Britain at a remote period ) were the real aborigines , and the race alluded to in the fourth Triad . That then the war- like race of Taliesin also migrated from ...
... Greeks , and it is probable that these ( who certainly did migrate to Britain at a remote period ) were the real aborigines , and the race alluded to in the fourth Triad . That then the war- like race of Taliesin also migrated from ...
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... Greeks , so they bartered salt , earthenware and brazen trinkets with the Britons for tin , lead , and the skins of wild beasts . It was the policy of the Phoenicians ( in which they were afterwards imitated by the Dutch ) to preserve ...
... Greeks , so they bartered salt , earthenware and brazen trinkets with the Britons for tin , lead , and the skins of wild beasts . It was the policy of the Phoenicians ( in which they were afterwards imitated by the Dutch ) to preserve ...
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altar ancient Britons Antiquitates Antiquities Arch-Druid arms Bardd Bards Belenus blood body breast Britain British Cæsar called Cassiterides Celtes Celtic ceremonies Ceridwen Christian Church clothed Corineus Cornwall cross custom dark death Deity Derwydd discovered divine Druidess Druidic Druidism Druids eggs Egypt Egyptians emblem England erected eyes feast festival fire Freemasonry Freemasons Gaul Gods Greek hand harp heart heathens heaven herbs Hindoos Hiram Hiram Abiff Histoire History holy honour idolatry imitation Ireland Irish Isis island Isles Jews Jubelum Julius Cæsar King land learned light Masonic masonry mistletoe moon mysteries nations Oliver's Opera origin Osiris Ovades Pagan Phoenicians placed pray prayer priests Pythagoras religion religious resemble reverence rites robes Roman Catholics Rome Romish sacred sacrifice saint Scotland serpent serpent's egg soul stone Suetonius superstition sword symbol temple thou tree Venus vestiges Virgin Mary vulgar Wales Welsh women word worship
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Seite 201 - But if the wife should drink of it first God help the husband then ! The stranger stooped to the Well of St. Keyne And drank of the water again. " You drank of the Well I warrant betimes ?
Seite 200 - St. Keyne,' quoth the Cornish-man, 'many a time Drank of this crystal Well, And before the Angel summoned her, She laid on the water a spell. 'If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life.
Seite 199 - But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm-tree stand beside, And behind does an ash-tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops to the water below. A traveller came to the Well of St. Keyne...
Seite 191 - ... dream of the man you are to have. This we did; and to be sure I did nothing all night but dream of Mr. Blossom. The same night, exactly at twelve o'clock, I sowed hempseed in our back yard, and said to myself," Hempseed I sow, hemp-seed I hoe, and he that is my true love come after me and mow.
Seite 200 - And there was not a cloud in the sky. He drank of the water so cool and clear, For thirsty and hot was he, And he sat down upon the bank, Under the willow-tree.
Seite 187 - ... being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them: each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, "This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep; and so on.
Seite 211 - Late late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in hir arme, And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will cum to harme.
Seite 200 - I'll venture my life She has drunk of the Well of St. Keyne ." "I have left a good woman who never was here...
Seite 187 - The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation: on that every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them: each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off...
Seite 185 - There is amongst us a people who, when they go out in search of prey, carry their horses on their backs to the place of plunder ; in order to catch their prey, they leap upon their horses, and when it is taken, carry their horses home again upon their shoulders.