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... divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape , is a dream - like vision of the little wood- land lake of Nemi , " Diana's Mirror , " as it was called by the ancients . No one who has seen that calm ...
... divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape , is a dream - like vision of the little wood- land lake of Nemi , " Diana's Mirror , " as it was called by the ancients . No one who has seen that calm ...
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... divine spirit . His whole being , body and soul , is so delicately attuned to the harmony of the world that a touch of his hand or a turn of his head may send a thrill vibrating through the universal framework of things ; and con ...
... divine spirit . His whole being , body and soul , is so delicately attuned to the harmony of the world that a touch of his hand or a turn of his head may send a thrill vibrating through the universal framework of things ; and con ...
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... divine . This appears from the custom sometimes observed of dipping the cross in the Fountain of Baranton , to procure rain ; for this is plainly a substitute for the older way of throwing the water on the stone . In Mingrelia , to get ...
... divine . This appears from the custom sometimes observed of dipping the cross in the Fountain of Baranton , to procure rain ; for this is plainly a substitute for the older way of throwing the water on the stone . In Mingrelia , to get ...
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... divine or supernatural powers , belongs essentially to that earlier period of religious history in which gods and men are still viewed as beings of much the same order , and before they are divided by the impassable gulf which , to ...
... divine or supernatural powers , belongs essentially to that earlier period of religious history in which gods and men are still viewed as beings of much the same order , and before they are divided by the impassable gulf which , to ...
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... divine knowledge , but also , at least occasionally , divine power . In Cambodia , when an epidemic breaks out , the inhabitants of several villages unite and go with a band of music at their head to look for the man whom the local god ...
... divine knowledge , but also , at least occasionally , divine power . In Cambodia , when an epidemic breaks out , the inhabitants of several villages unite and go with a band of music at their head to look for the man whom the local god ...
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Page 217 - The danger is a formidable one; for if the course of nature is dependent on the man-god's life, what catastrophes may not be expected from the gradual enfeeblement of his powers and their final extinction in death. There is only one way of averting these dangers. The man-god must be killed as soon as he shows symptoms that his powers are beginning to fail, and his soul must be transferred to a vigorous successor before it has been seriously impaired by the threatened decay.
Page 215 - ... predecessors we are indebted for much of what we thought most our own, and that their errors were not wilful extravagances or the ravings of insanity, but simply hypotheses, justifiable as such at the time when they were propounded, but which a fuller experience has proved to be inadequate. It is only by the successive testing of hypotheses and rejection of the false that truth is at last elicited. After all, what we call truth is only the hypothesis which is found to work best.
Page 5 - Accordingly if we can show that a barbarous custom, like that of the priesthood of Nemi, has existed elsewhere ; if we can detect the motives which led to its institution ; if we can prove that these motives have operated widely, perhaps universally, in human society, producing in varied circumstances a variety of institutions specifically different but generically alike...
Page 221 - Chitome were to die a natural death, the world would perish, and the earth, which he alone sustained by his power and merit, would immediately be annihilated. Accordingly when he fell ill and seemed likely to die, the man who was destined to be his successor entered the pontiff's house with a rope or a club and strangled or clubbed him to death.
Page 35 - ... prayer are the resource of the pious and enlightened portion of the community, while magic is the refuge of the superstitious and ignorant. But when, still later, the conception of the elemental forces as personal agents is giving way to the recognition of natural law ; then magic, based as it implicitly is on the idea of a necessary and invariable sequence of cause and effect, independent of personal will, reappears from the obscurity and discredit into which it had fallen, and by investigating...
Page 307 - In one of the chambers dedicated to Osiris in the great temple of Isis at Philae the dead body of Osiris is represented with stalks of corn springing from it, and a priest is depicted watering the stalks from a pitcher which he holds in his hand.
Page 113 - There is such a holiness ascribed to all the parts of his body that he dares to cut off neither his hair, nor his beard, nor his nails. However, lest he should grow too dirty, they may clean him in the night when he is asleep; because they say that what is taken from his body at that time, hath been stolen from him, and that such a theft does not prejudice his holiness or dignity.
Page 343 - ... and much clamour of the reapers, into the field, where it stands fixed on a pole all day, and when the reaping is done, is brought home in like manner. This they call the Harvest Queen, and it represents the Roman Ceres.
Page 43 - Even an infant king must not be despised, (from an idea) that he is a (mere) mortal; for he is a great deity in human form.
Page 99 - The mistress and servants of each family take a sheaf of oats and dress it up in women's apparel, put it in a large basket, and lay a wooden club by it, and this they call Briid's Bed : and then the mistress and servants cry three times, Briid is come, Briid is welcome.