The Healing Gods of Ancient CivilizationsYale University Press, 1925 - 569 sider |
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Side xxxiii
... sin . The individual fell prey to disease in consequence of these supernatural onslaughts , while the community , in similar fashion , was visited by epidemics . The demons of disease gained entrance to the body through INTRODUCTION xxxiii.
... sin . The individual fell prey to disease in consequence of these supernatural onslaughts , while the community , in similar fashion , was visited by epidemics . The demons of disease gained entrance to the body through INTRODUCTION xxxiii.
Side xxxiv
... similar by simple changes in terms , sub- stituting those of bacteriology and parasitology for the hosts of unknown and unnamed active , living forces- the invisible beings of demonology . Diagnosis was of small importance in religious ...
... similar by simple changes in terms , sub- stituting those of bacteriology and parasitology for the hosts of unknown and unnamed active , living forces- the invisible beings of demonology . Diagnosis was of small importance in religious ...
Side 16
... similar funerary literature of the populace of the Feudal Age . The texts were written on rolls of papyrus which have 46 Budge , op . cit . , p . 165 . 47 Breasted , op . cit . , p . 94 . 48 Budge , op . cit . , p . 124 . 49 Ib . , pp ...
... similar funerary literature of the populace of the Feudal Age . The texts were written on rolls of papyrus which have 46 Budge , op . cit . , p . 165 . 47 Breasted , op . cit . , p . 94 . 48 Budge , op . cit . , p . 124 . 49 Ib . , pp ...
Side 17
... similar in many respects to that on earth ; and a text in the Book of the Dead , chap . cx , gives a man power of " doing everything even as a man doeth on earth . " " While the present life was in every way preferable , that of the ...
... similar in many respects to that on earth ; and a text in the Book of the Dead , chap . cx , gives a man power of " doing everything even as a man doeth on earth . " " While the present life was in every way preferable , that of the ...
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... similar feeling toward the gods induced them to offer ex - votos in the temples for the same purpose ( Clemens , apud Origenes , viii , 41 ) .95 94 Foucart , in ERE iv , 793-794 . 95 Id . , " Dreams and Sleep ( Egyptian ) , " in ERE v ...
... similar feeling toward the gods induced them to offer ex - votos in the temples for the same purpose ( Clemens , apud Origenes , viii , 41 ) .95 94 Foucart , in ERE iv , 793-794 . 95 Id . , " Dreams and Sleep ( Egyptian ) , " in ERE v ...
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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.