The Origin of Pagan Idolatry Ascertained from Historical Testimony and Circumstantial Evidence, Band 2F. and C. Rivingtons, 1816 |
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... father , as exhibited in the Osiric or Bacchic or Saivic or Brahmenical super- stition THE same person was equally venerated by the adherents of both super- stitions : they differed only in the mode . That person was the great father ...
... father , as exhibited in the Osiric or Bacchic or Saivic or Brahmenical super- stition THE same person was equally venerated by the adherents of both super- stitions : they differed only in the mode . That person was the great father ...
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... father and the great mother were represented by two gigantic statues . Various instances of this superstition 467 ( 5. ) Respecting the pillars and era of Sesostris 472 ( 6. ) The funereal birds of Memnon were his priests 476 CHAPTER VI ...
... father and the great mother were represented by two gigantic statues . Various instances of this superstition 467 ( 5. ) Respecting the pillars and era of Sesostris 472 ( 6. ) The funereal birds of Memnon were his priests 476 CHAPTER VI ...
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... father ; whence the golden age isproperly the age of the great father's manifestation at the commencement of a new world . BOOK III . Now , since world was believed to.
... father ; whence the golden age isproperly the age of the great father's manifestation at the commencement of a new world . BOOK III . Now , since world was believed to.
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... father was esteemed only a reappearance of the same personage at the opening of each mundane system ; the golden age , being the age of the great father , was of course placed at the beginning of every world and hence we perceive the ...
... father was esteemed only a reappearance of the same personage at the opening of each mundane system ; the golden age , being the age of the great father , was of course placed at the beginning of every world and hence we perceive the ...
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... father ; and they were no less aware , that the true epoch of the great father's appearance was the commencement of each Manwantara or of each grand cosmical revo- lution . If then the great father was manifested in the golden age at ...
... father ; and they were no less aware , that the true epoch of the great father's appearance was the commencement of each Manwantara or of each grand cosmical revo- lution . If then the great father was manifested in the golden age at ...
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Seite 115 - ... variety of seeds ; and, accompanied by seven saints, encircled by pairs of all brute animals, thou shalt enter the spacious ark, and continue in it, secure from the flood, on one immense ocean, without light, except the radiance of thy holy companions.
Seite 114 - I am not pleased with living miserably in this little vase ; make me a large mansion, where I may dwell in comfort.' The king, removing it thence, placed it in the water of a cistern; but it grew three cubits in less than fifty minutes, and said : 'O king, it pleases me not to stay vainly in CAB II.
Seite 115 - KeVava; who will surely deliver us from this danger, and grant us prosperity.' The god, being invoked by the monarch, appeared again distinctly on the vast ocean in the form of a fish, blazing like gold, extending a million of leagues, with one stupendous horn : on which the king, as he had...
Seite 109 - Xisuthrus sent out birds from the vessel; which not finding any food, nor any place whereupon they might rest their feet, returned to him again. After an interval of some days, he sent them forth a second time; and they now returned with their feet tinged with mud. He made a trial a third time with these birds; but they returned to him no more: from whence he judged that the surface of the earth had appeared above the waters.
Seite 242 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Seite 125 - Danoos begin to stir up the waters of the ocean for the discovery of the Amreeta. " The mighty Asoors were employed on the side of the serpent's head, whilst all the Soors assembled about his tail. Ananta, that sovereign Dew, stood near Narayan.
Seite 15 - There can arise little doubt," says Maurice, " that by the Satya age, or Age of Perfection, the Brahmins obviously allude to the state of perfection and happiness enjoyed by man in Paradise. It is impossible to explain what the Indian writers assert concerning the universal purity of manners, and the luxurious and unbounded plenty prevailing in that primitive era, without this supposition. Justice, truth, philanthrophy, were then practised among all the orders and classes of mankind.
Seite 141 - Hindus, believe this earth to have been wholly covered with water, which, in works of undisputed authenticity, they describe as flowing abundantly, then subsiding, and separating the higher from the lower age of mankind...
Seite 116 - Heri, tied the ship with a cable made of a vast serpent ; and, happy in his preservation, stood praising the destroyer of Madhu. When the monarch had finished his hymn, the primeval male, Bhagavat, who watched for his safety on the great expanse of water, spoke aloud to his own divine essence, pronouncing a sacred...
Seite 181 - ... their lands, but also to keep the country they had subjected in greater awe by being masters of the water. This building stood like a mountain above their city, and was by them esteemed so strong that they were in no apprehension of its ever failing. The water rose to the height of almost twenty fathoms, and was kept in on every side by a work so solid, that many of the inhabitants had their houses built upon it.