The Healing Gods of Ancient CivilizationsYale University Press, 1925 - 569 sider |
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Side xii
... divinity appears to be of such minor importance that the name has purposely been omitted . A short biographical sketch is given of those deities whose curative acts are definitely noted , and it is believed that the work of their cults ...
... divinity appears to be of such minor importance that the name has purposely been omitted . A short biographical sketch is given of those deities whose curative acts are definitely noted , and it is believed that the work of their cults ...
Side xvii
... divinity toward disease and healing . Paian and Apollo . The cradle of Greek medicine . Early healing customs . The heal- ing rituals and miracles . Magic and healing . The methods of religious healing . The direct method . Examples ...
... divinity toward disease and healing . Paian and Apollo . The cradle of Greek medicine . Early healing customs . The heal- ing rituals and miracles . Magic and healing . The methods of religious healing . The direct method . Examples ...
Side xxvi
... divinity for the preservation of health and for relief from all physical ills . The prevalence of this faith , side by side with ' new thought ' and the many variant forms of mental healing resulting from modern psychological studies ...
... divinity for the preservation of health and for relief from all physical ills . The prevalence of this faith , side by side with ' new thought ' and the many variant forms of mental healing resulting from modern psychological studies ...
Side xxx
... Divinity was , therefore , believed to be omnipresent , and in its beneficence , as the protector of mankind , gave indications of its intent for the future course of events by omens and portents , whence prognostications were of the ...
... Divinity was , therefore , believed to be omnipresent , and in its beneficence , as the protector of mankind , gave indications of its intent for the future course of events by omens and portents , whence prognostications were of the ...
Side 4
... divinity and its powers ; and many changes occurred in the religions of the several dis- tricts , or nomes , often politically detached , into which the long valley of the Nile was divided . Gods and cults were blended by peaceful ...
... divinity and its powers ; and many changes occurred in the religions of the several dis- tricts , or nomes , often politically detached , into which the long valley of the Nile was divided . Gods and cults were blended by peaceful ...
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abaton Ahura Mazda altar ancient Apollo appears Artemis Askle Asklepieion Asklepios associated Athens became believed birth Bona Dea Budge celebrated century B.C. ceremonies child-birth chthonic cult cultic cure daimons death dedicated deities Demeter demons Diana Dionysos disease divinity dreams Egypt Egyptian Eileithyia Epidauros epithet Esculapius Eshmun evil Farnell Faunus festival Fowler Frazer functions goddess gods Greece Greek Gruppe healer healing deity held Hera Herakles hero Hesiod hieron honor Horus Hygieia incantations incubation inscriptions invoked Isis Iuno Iupiter Jastrow Korybantes later legend Livy Lucina magic medicine Mithras Müller mysteries Mythology oracle origin Osiris Ovid Paian pantheon Papyrus Pausanias pestilence physician powers practice prayers priests purification religion religious remedies represented Rigveda rites ritual Roman Rome Roscher sacred sacrifice sanctuary Serapis serpent shrine sick spirits statue Strabo suppliants Telesphoros temple Thrämer tion tradition Underworld viii Wissowa women 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.