Researches Into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians and Babylonians, Band 2Williams and Norgate, 1900 |
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Researches Into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations of the Greeks ... Robert Brown Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2020 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
12 stars Akkad Altar Anct appears Aquila Arâtos Assurbanipal Asterism astronomical Auriga Bêl Bird Bull called Capella Capricorn celestial Chal Chariot connexion constellation constellation-figures Crab Cylinder Dilbat Dilgan divinity Eagle Ear-of-corn ecliptic Êlâm Entenamasluv Euphratean Euphratês field of Anu figures Fish Girtab Goat Goat-fish goddess Greek heaven Hommel Hyades Idkhu instance Istar Jensen Jupiter Kakkab Kaksisa kharrân King Lajard Librae Lion Lugal Lulim lunar Bull Lunar Zodiac meaning Merôdakh month Moon noticed observed original Orion Papilsak planet Pleiad Pole-star Pollux Procyon Prof reduplication River Sagittarius Scorpion scribe Semitic Serpent Sibzianna Signs Sirius solar specially connected sphere Spica star-names stellar Sugi Sum.-Ak Sun-god Tablet Thirty Stars Twins Ursae Venus Vide Brünnow Vide Ib Vide inf Vide R. B. Jr Vide sup Vide Vol W. A. I. III xlix Zamama Zodiac
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Seite 176 - I could be well mov'd, if I were as you ; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me : But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd, and resting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament. The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks, They are all fire, and every one doth shine ; But there's but one in all doth hold his place...
Seite xiv - Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head : for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Seite 126 - ... Sirius rose with the sun as the latter entered Leo, ie the hottest part of the year, was accepted by the Romans with an entire disregard of the intervening time and a different latitude. To quote Sir Edward Sherburne (Sphere of Manilius, 1675), " The greater part of the Antients...
Seite 199 - In navigation, the meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac.
Seite 102 - ... black-haired" rather than "black-headed." As, however, M. Dieulafoy's excavations on. the site of Susa have brought to light enamelled bricks of the Elamite period on which a black race of mankind is portrayed, it may mean that the primitive Sumerian population of Chaldsea was really black-skinned.
Seite 178 - The side walls run from north to south, and are not more than seven feet high. Two windows, or rather openings for windows, are left east and west, and space for a door is made on the southern side, so that the priest, when entering the edifice, has the North Star, the great object of their adoration, immediately facing him.
Seite 178 - SIDRA RABBA is laid upon the altar, folded back where the liturgy of the living is divided from the ritual of the dead. The high priest takes a live pigeon...
Seite 3 - The chiefs of the Divinities are twelve in number, to each of whom they assign a month and one of the twelve signs of the Zodiac.