The Healing Gods of Ancient CivilizationsYale University Press, 1925 - 569 sider |
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Side 3
... chief priests to have practiced healing among their peoples . ' Specialists were attached to the courts of kings , and sev- eral physicians and superintendents of physicians were so renowned and respected that their names were recorded ...
... chief priests to have practiced healing among their peoples . ' Specialists were attached to the courts of kings , and sev- eral physicians and superintendents of physicians were so renowned and respected that their names were recorded ...
Side 9
... chief god were assigned shrines in the sanctuary relative to their importance , receiving appropriate shares in the worship and sacrifices . Each family , almost each individual , pos- sessed a god or fetish who had a niche or shrine in ...
... chief god were assigned shrines in the sanctuary relative to their importance , receiving appropriate shares in the worship and sacrifices . Each family , almost each individual , pos- sessed a god or fetish who had a niche or shrine in ...
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... chiefs and attendants ; but all were subject to the higher will of their leaders and of the gods and their ministers who pos- sessed the secret names and words of power . The priesthood . Egypt had numerous temples in the nomes and ...
... chiefs and attendants ; but all were subject to the higher will of their leaders and of the gods and their ministers who pos- sessed the secret names and words of power . The priesthood . Egypt had numerous temples in the nomes and ...
Side 23
... chief priest of Amon of Thebes was made primate of Egypt.78 Religious festivals . Egypt was extremely rich in festivals and fasts , up- ward of fifteen hundred for all periods and places being listed ; and these formed an important ...
... chief priest of Amon of Thebes was made primate of Egypt.78 Religious festivals . Egypt was extremely rich in festivals and fasts , up- ward of fifteen hundred for all periods and places being listed ; and these formed an important ...
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... chief magician , and Isis was his counterpart . He knew the mys- tic names , the mighty hidden words of power , the secrets of the gods ; and hence he was master of them all , having authority over heaven , earth , and the Underworld ...
... chief magician , and Isis was his counterpart . He knew the mys- tic names , the mighty hidden words of power , the secrets of the gods ; and hence he was master of them all , having authority over heaven , earth , and the Underworld ...
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abaton Ahura Mazda altar ancient Apollo appears Artemis Askle Asklepieia Asklepieion Asklepios Atharva Athens Babylonia became believed Budge celebrated century B.C. ceremonies Cheiron child-birth chthonic cult cure daimons daughter deities Demeter demons Dhanvantari Dionysos disease divine dreams early earth Egypt Egyptian Eileithyia Epidauros epithet Eshmun evil Farnell festivals Frazer functions goddess gods Greece Greek Gruppe healer healing deity held Hera Herakles hero Herodotos Hesiod hieron honor Horus Hygieia hymns incantations incubation inscriptions invoked Isis Iupiter Jastrow Korybantes Kouretes later legend magic Marduk medicine Melampous mysteries mythology myths oracle origin Oropos Osiris Paian pantheon Papyrus Pausanias pestilence physician powers practice prayers priests purification received regarded religion religious remedies represented Rigveda rites ritual Roman Rome sacred sacrifice sanctuary Sarapis serpent shrine sick spirits statue Strabo suppliants tablets Telesphoros temple Thrämer tion tradition Vedic VIII Wissowa worship Yasht Yasna Zeus
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Side 392 - The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Side 117 - I taught my country to guard the name of the god, To honor the name of the goddess I accustomed my people. The glorification of the king I made like unto that of a god, And in the fear of the palace I instructed the people.
Side 17 - I have not done evil in the place of truth. I knew no wrong. I did no evil thing. ... I did not do that which the god abominates. I did not report evil of a servant to his master. I allowed no one to hunger. I caused no one to weep.
Side vii - Press on the Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund. This Foundation was established December 12, 1922, by a gift to Yale University in pursuance of a pledge announced on Alumni University Day in February, 1922, of a Fund of $100,000 bequeathed to James Thayer McMillan and Alexis Caswell Angell, as Trustees, by Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson McMillan, of Detroit, to be devoted by them to the establishment of a memorial in honor of her husband. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, December 28, 1872,...
Side 62 - was a late development who, with Serapis and Isis, was the third member of the divine triad at Alexandria, Philae, and Fayum, and was worshipped with Isis at Panopolis.195 He had the functions of Horus, and in Ptolemaic times assumed the attributes of the local deities with whom Amon-Re had been identified, and even those of this deity at the center of his worship, at Thebes. Without temples, he was worshipped as a deity of the lower classes and of the home, and was often represented as a young...
Side 7 - Herodotus found it, a religion of innumerable external observances and mechanical usages, carried out with such elaborate and insistent punctiliousness that the Egyptians gained the reputation of being the most religious of all peoples. But such observances were no longer the expression of a growing and developing inner life, as in the days before the creative vitality of the race was extinct.
Side 225 - Ares (Mars) gets the blame. But terrors which happen during the night, and fevers, and delirium, and jumpings out of bed, and frightful apparitions, and fleeing away, — all these they hold to be the plots of Hecate, and the invasions of the Heroes...
Side 17 - I did not diminish the grain measure. I did not diminish the span. I did not diminish the land measure. I did not load the weight of the balances. I did not deflect the index of the scales.
Side 21 - Pepi, the doors of the iron which "is the ceiling of the sky open themselves to " Pepi, and he passeth through them ; he hath his "panther skin upon him, and the staff and whip are " in his hand. Pepi goeth forward with his flesh, Pepi "is happy with his name, and he liveth with his ka
Side 113 - Those who have made images of me, reproducing my features, Who have taken away my breath, torn my hairs, Who have rent my clothes, have hindered my feet from treading the dust, May the fire-god, the strong one, break their charm.