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Side vii
... moon , pp . 152-154 ; moon popularly regarded as the cause of growth and the source of moisture , pp . 154-159 ; hence moon especially worshipped by agricultural peoples , p . 159 sq .; this explains association of corn - god Osiris with ...
... moon , pp . 152-154 ; moon popularly regarded as the cause of growth and the source of moisture , pp . 154-159 ; hence moon especially worshipped by agricultural peoples , p . 159 sq .; this explains association of corn - god Osiris with ...
Side 20
... moon coming down to earth to catch somebody who may relieve her of her duties in the moon while she goes away to the happy spirit - land . In Vedic India a meteor was believed to be the incarnation of a demon , and on its appearance ...
... moon coming down to earth to catch somebody who may relieve her of her duties in the moon while she goes away to the happy spirit - land . In Vedic India a meteor was believed to be the incarnation of a demon , and on its appearance ...
Side 27
... moon in the sixth month ( the end of April ) a temporary king is appointed , who for three days enjoys the royal prerogatives , the real king remaining shut up in his palace . This temporary king sends his numerous satellites in all ...
... moon in the sixth month ( the end of April ) a temporary king is appointed , who for three days enjoys the royal prerogatives , the real king remaining shut up in his palace . This temporary king sends his numerous satellites in all ...
Side 110
... moon would surely perish , if he did not raise a clamour and shoot his puny shafts into the air to defend the luminaries from the monster who threatens to devour them . Νο wonder he is terrified when in the darkness of night 110 CHAP ...
... moon would surely perish , if he did not raise a clamour and shoot his puny shafts into the air to defend the luminaries from the monster who threatens to devour them . Νο wonder he is terrified when in the darkness of night 110 CHAP ...
Side 111
... moon , whose pale sickle rose thinner and thinner every night over the rim of the eastern horizon , may have excited in his mind a fear lest , when it had wholly vanished , there should be moons no more . These and a 1 When the Kurnai ...
... moon , whose pale sickle rose thinner and thinner every night over the rim of the eastern horizon , may have excited in his mind a fear lest , when it had wholly vanished , there should be moons no more . These and a 1 When the Kurnai ...
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amongst ancient animal annually appears Ash Wednesday Athamas Athenaeus Attis Baumkultus Bavaria believed blood body buried burned Cailleach called Carnival carried ceremony clothes Corn-mother corn-spirit crops custom dance dead deity Demeter Dionysus divine dressed eaten effigy Egyptian festival field figure fire firstborn flesh flowers Folk-lore Gebräuche girls goat gods hand harvest harvest customs head Herodotus human victim Ibid Indians Isis et Osiris Khond killed king king's Kostrubonko last corn last sheaf Lityerses Maiden maize Mannhardt moon myth Mythologie observed offered Old Woman Orchomenus Osiris Pausanias person Phrixus Phrygian plants Plutarch priest Proserpine puppet reapers reaping reign Religion represented resurrection rice rites round sacred sacrifice sacrificed Sagen Shrove Tuesday singing slain sometimes soul spirit of vegetation spring straw Summer supposed Tammuz temporary king threshing throw tree tree-spirit tribe village Volkskunde winter women worship young
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Side 46 - When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire...
Side 49 - Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Side 51 - But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat...
Side 50 - Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast : it is mine.
Side 51 - Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors : the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep : seven days it shall be with his dam ; on the eighth day thou shalt give It me.
Side 46 - Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Side 48 - And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Side 47 - And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan : and the land was polluted with blood.
Side 48 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.