Grecian and Roman MythologyPutnam, 1849 - 451 sivua |
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Sivu xvii
... Night , and Day , together with the genealogies that follow of the clouds , and waters , and winds , and elements ... Night were born , and then again from Night came Æther ( or the fire ) and Day . " — Hesiod , Theogonia , 117 . " The ...
... Night , and Day , together with the genealogies that follow of the clouds , and waters , and winds , and elements ... Night were born , and then again from Night came Æther ( or the fire ) and Day . " — Hesiod , Theogonia , 117 . " The ...
Sivu 6
... that epithet gradually grow into a name . Of the twelve great gods , the greatest , according to the Egyp tians , was Pan , or the Universe , to whom the highest honors were paid . Next to him stood Latona or Night ; 6 INTRODUCTION .
... that epithet gradually grow into a name . Of the twelve great gods , the greatest , according to the Egyp tians , was Pan , or the Universe , to whom the highest honors were paid . Next to him stood Latona or Night ; 6 INTRODUCTION .
Sivu 7
Mary Ann Dwight. paid . Next to him stood Latona or Night ; Vulcan was next in dignity ; and then Osiris and Isis , and Orus their son . That is , the Universe , comprehending nature and all her powers , was overwhelmed in darkness until ...
Mary Ann Dwight. paid . Next to him stood Latona or Night ; Vulcan was next in dignity ; and then Osiris and Isis , and Orus their son . That is , the Universe , comprehending nature and all her powers , was overwhelmed in darkness until ...
Sivu 9
... night and darkness . Even the names of the Titans indicate the want of bounds and limits in nature . Imagination shuns this boundlessness of form , which is necessarily fluctuating and uncertain , the modern deities conquer , and the ...
... night and darkness . Even the names of the Titans indicate the want of bounds and limits in nature . Imagination shuns this boundlessness of form , which is necessarily fluctuating and uncertain , the modern deities conquer , and the ...
Sivu 26
... night of the adventures of the goddess ; and these are called by the Egyptians , mysteries ; of which , however , I will relate no more . It was from thence that these mysteries were introduced into Greece . " Admitting this even to be ...
... night of the adventures of the goddess ; and these are called by the Egyptians , mysteries ; of which , however , I will relate no more . It was from thence that these mysteries were introduced into Greece . " Admitting this even to be ...
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abode according Achilles ægis afterwards altar ancient antiquity Aphrodite Apollo appears Arês Argos arms Athenian Athens Attica Bacchos beautiful became brother Cadmos called celebrated celestial Ceres character chariot Chimæra Colchis consecrated daughter death deities Delphi descended Deucalion Diana Dionysos divine earth Egyptians Eleusis emblem erected Eurystheus fable fate father feet festival fiction gave goddess gods golden Grecian Greece Greeks groves hand head Heaven Hêra Heracles Hercules Hermês heroes Hesiod Homer honor horses human immortal Inachos island Jove Juno Jupiter killed king legend married Mêdeia Minerva Minôs monster mortal mother mountain Muses Mycena mysteries mythology nature Neptune night nymphs Odysseus offered Olympos oracle Pausanias Perseus Phorcys Pluto poets Poseidon priests Prometheus received reigned represented rites river Romans Rome sacred sacrifices sister solemn sometimes sons statue temple Thebes Theseus thou tion Trojans Troy Venus victory wings worship youth Zeus
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Sivu 198 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Sivu 170 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Sivu 208 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Sivu 166 - Aricia, &c. She was supposed to be the same as the Isis of the Egyptians, whose worship was introduced into Greece with that of Osiris under the name of Apollo.
Sivu 141 - Eleusis by a place called the mystical entrance. On the seventh day were sports, in which the victors were rewarded with a measure of barley, as that grain had been first sown in Eleusis. The eighth day...
Sivu 93 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Sivu 56 - This monster had the face of a woman, the body and feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird...
Sivu 87 - JEther or pure invisible Fire ', the most subtle and elastic of all bodies, seems to pervade and expand itself throughout the whole universe. If air be the immediate agent or instrument in natural things, it is the pure invisible fire that is the first natural mover or spring from whence the air derives its power (sect.
Sivu 202 - Some represent him lame and deformed, holding a hammer, raised in the air, ready to strike; while, with the other hand, he turns with pincers a thunderbolt on his anvil. He appears, on some monuments, with a long beard, dishevelled hair, half naked, and a small round cap on his head, while he holds a hammer and pincers in his hand.
Sivu 293 - Hercules so frequently represented as the sungod, and his twelve labors regarded as the passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac. He is the powerful planet which animates and imparts fecundity to the universe, whose divinity has been honored in every quarter by temples and altars, and consecrated in the religious strains of all nations.