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...appen if various famous dead people were put in the same room with each other. Each chapter is a short story featuring various souls from history and mythology. (Wikipedia)...

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...gists race against time to decipher an ancient truth? A deep probing mystery riddled with prophecy and danger, Secret of the Sands uses Egypt and her mythology as a backdrop to delve into the meanings of life and religion. -McNally Robinson Rai Aren and Tavius E. have crafted a fast-paced, exciting novel overflowing with mystery and intrigue. The tension is constant. The c...

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...famous Elizabethans: Essex, Marlowe, Raleigh and Donne, within the context of the history of ideas, with reference to poetry, astrology, history, and mythology including the concept of the Goddess....

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...All mythology and/or Hawthorne lovers unite! Here is a delightful collection of charming stories from Greek Mythology. This collection features some very popular characters like our beloved Jason, Ulysses, King Pluto and Theseus ...

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...The Mabinogion is a collection of eleven prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs, and early medieval historical traditions. While some details may hark back to older Iron Age traditions, each of these tales is the product of a highly developed Welsh narrative tradi...

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...ut a war against the moon. As a piece of literature it has few parallels since it sprawls across many genre boundaries including Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mythology, Epic Poem and Spiritual Text. Yet despite an overtly serious tone, The Soma Tantra is also filled with a light-hearted campiness running throughout its pages....

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...ve. He leaves only because he is forced to. (see The Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology). When after ten years of war and innumerable deaths on the bat... ...self and others a little bit more, with Athena’s help. According to Greek mythology, Poseidon is the god of the sea, the god of the marine depths. ...

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...f bad attitude clamping down upon their limbs. Dagon here is not the creature aka the demi-God from H. P. Lovecraft’s work or the Fish-God from the mythology of the ancient past as I relate but the urban legend who emerged in 1955 where it’s frighteningly plausible. ...

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................................................................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68...

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........................ 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM... ...y 5, 1840.] LECTURE I THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGAN- ISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. W E HAVE UNDERTAKEN to discourse here for a little on Great Men,... ... among several other books he wrote, a kind of Prose Synopsis of the whole Mythology; elucidated by new fragments of traditionary verse. A work constr... ...; he first has made Life alive!—We may call this Odin, the origin of Norse Mythology: Odin, or whatever name the First Norse Thinker bore while he was... ...the Past, and covering the whole Northern Heaven, is not that Scandinavian Mythology in some sort the Portraiture of this man Odin? The gigantic image... ...This, I should say, is more sincerely done in the Scandinavian than in any Mythology I know. Sincerity is the great charac- teristic of it. Superior s... ...y of the World. Of the distinctive poetic character or merit of this Norse Mythology I have not room to speak; nor does it concern us much. Some wild ...

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... the French officer who had been sent * The god of fruitfulness in Grecian mythology. In Crete he was sup- posed to be slain in winter with the decay ... ...ri- zon; but as though to prove the truth of the fanciful ideas in heathen mythology, its indiscreet rays reappeared on the summit of every wave, as i...

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...ost recalls Daedalus’ address to 41 Balzac Icarus; for where, save in old mythology, can you look for comparisons worthy of this man of antique mould...

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...or pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hun- dred thousand Patriotic Men; and...

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... propitiation, which some have thought has been derived from the Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasi...

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... The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel ... he is best recognized for the works he did not write.[1] Many of the books were illustrated by Henry J. Ford, Lancelot Speed, and G. P. Jacomb-Hood also contributed some illustrations....

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...e: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the fol...

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... English speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A bri... ...re has been taken in rendering these finely shaded verbs. A glance at the mythology of this interesting people will place the import of this remark i... ..., but at the same time were connected with them. The basic idea in Finnish mythology seems to lie in this: that all objects in nature are governed by ... ... tain, by the wicked hostess of the dismal Sariola, he, like Atlas in the mythology of Greece, relinquishes the support of the heavens, thunders alon... ...s an object in nature. Wisdom and law, virtue and justice, find in Finnish mythology no protector among the gods, who trouble themselves only about th... ...d ing snows and piercing winds of the north. Lemmas is a god dess in the mythology of the Finns who dresses the wounds of her faithful sufferers, an... ...with hungry whirlpools, and angry waterfalls. Like Helheim of Scandinavian mythology, Manala, or T uonela, was considered as corresponding to the uppe... ... him over the Finnish Styx, like Charon, the son of Erebus and Nox, in the mythology of Greece. The second daughter of T uoni is Lowyatar, black and b... ...y escape and go forth to torture and slay the children of men; as in Hindu mythology, Kali (black) sits in judgment on the dead. Various other spiritu...

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...We should praise it falsely to call it so; for the feeble, though elegant, mythology of Greece was incapable of breeding anything so deep as the myste... ...cal education, could have been so much at home in the details of the elder mythology? Tooke’s ‘Pantheon’ might have been obtained by favor of any Engl... ...T riton wind his wreathed horn;’ whether this, or the passage on the Greek mythology in ‘The Excursion.’ Whichever he means, I am the last man to deny...

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...ggles towards it, with the millstones of Syrian theology and an outrageous mythology of incarnation and resurrection about its neck. When at last our ...

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...n a very proper light by the ingenious Abbe Bannier, in his preface to his Mythology, a work great erudition and of equal judgment. “It will be easy,”... ...ader. In this the antients had a great advantage over the moderns. Their mythology, which was at that time more firmly be lieved by the vulgar than...

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...lfth chap- ter, twenty-fourth section, of his “Introduction to a System of Mythology,” says: “I have here gone on the assumption which I consider unav... ...phically or ethnographically, of its traditions, the vast labyrinth of its mythology, the deductions of its con- tradictory genealogies, the disputed ...

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...s, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer amount of it in mythology than in any history of America, so called, that I have seen. H... ...ich no Au gustan nor Elizabethan age, which no culture, in short, can give. Mythology comes nearer to it than anything. How much more fertile a Natur... ...r to it than anything. How much more fertile a Nature, at least, has Grecian mythology its root in than English literature! Mythology is the crop whic...

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...orn men, would have seemed perfectly accor- dant with the character of his mythology, and not more marvellous than the wonders of the East narrated by... ...where, ingeniously gives the impression that he is telling the truth which mythology had corrupted. The world, like a child, has readily, and for the ...

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...ipt says, “The mo appelen the *Jotunheim (Ye(r)t’-un-hime) in Scandinavian mythology was the home of the Jotun or Giants. Loki was a descendant of the...

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... the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling and i... ...rils (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I don’t know), it seems as if the earth had got a race now worthy... ...as a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what fac... ...n man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it i... ... wood; ground famous for the pranks of a demon not distinctly named in old mythology, who has acted a prominent and astounding part in our New England... ... flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there. There we worked, revising mythology, rounding a fable here and there, and building castles in the air... ...f the ground; this is Spring. It precedes the green and flowery spring, as mythology precedes regular poetry. I know of nothing more purgative of wint...

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... “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet!” To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient his tory and biography. So far from bei... ...tury was equal to a thousand years. The poet is he who can write some pure mythology to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instan... ...oirs to serve for a history,” which itself is but materials to serve for a mythology. How many volumes folio would the Life and Labors of Prometheus h... ...Him that made him? 51 HenryDavidThoreau One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,—the Christian fable. With what pains, and tea... ..., and tears, and blood these centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind. The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and... ...the memory of the race! It would seem as if it were in the progress of our mythology to de throne Jehovah, and crown Christ in his stead. If it is no... ...receded them. The mythological system of the ancients, and it is still the mythology of the moderns, the poem of mankind, interwo ven so wonderfully ... ... two or three essays on this subject in all literature. No wonder that the Mythology, and Arabian Nights, and Shakespeare, and Scott’s novels entertai... ... being converted by the precepts of a newer testament; when he forgets his mythology, and treats his Friend like a Christian, or as he can afford; the...

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...de its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Eu- rope, (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic art... ...close- ness to the faith of later ages. Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology. He is the friend of man; stands be- tween the unjust “justice” o... ...f *St. Augustine, Confessions, B. I. 59 Emerson its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for any fab... ...ense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye. In the old mythology, mythologists observe, defects are ascribed to divine natures, as... ...nning, and too bad for blessing, it reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character. ‘I overheard Jove, one d... ...an Aeolian harp,—and this supernatural tiralira restores to him the Dorian mythology, Apollo, Diana, and all divine hunters and huntresses. Can a musi... ...- ity is a most unfit tribute to Pan, who ought to be repre- sented in the mythology as the most continent of gods. I would not be frivolous before th...

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...e case where a learned antiquary unfolds historically the record of a vast mythology. Heaps of such cases, (both law and mythological records,) surviv... ...lities must have worked an extensive conformity to their own standard. The mythology sanctioned by the ritual of public worship, the features of moral... ...rship, the features of moral nature in the gods dis- tributed through that mythology, and sometimes commemo- rated by gleams in that ritual, domineere...

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...dy half spider, wretched 1 Lucifer. 2 Examples from classic and biblical mythology alternate. 3 Apollo, so called from his temple at Thymbra, not f...

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...ure represented, whether taken from bibli- cal or profane history, or from mythology; and, even if I did not always hit upon the meaning of allegorica... ...itness, led me hither and thither; when the medley of fable and his- tory, mythology and religion, threatened to bewilder me,—I liked to take refuge i...

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...the little horse- shoes on the lower branches. Why has not England a great mythology? our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the great...

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... you, and you may take it as extracted out of the profoundest mysteries of mythology, that, when the giants had enterprised the waging of a war agains...

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...r pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense- fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hundred thousand Patriotic Men; and, ...

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...ly, completing, as Henry said, the 99 The Chaplet of Pearls galimatias of mythology, a pasteboard cloud was propelled on the stage, and disclosed the...

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...r- winian, post-Schopenhaurian philosophy; Wagner in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Parisian dramaturgy. Nothi...

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...lysis of Mind have thus invested their doctrine with an air of mystery and mythology which forms a large part of its popular attractive- ness. They sp...

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...e to one of those spirits of fable-fairies, or creatures of a more antique mythology—who sometimes mingled their agency with mortal affairs, half in c...

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...the notion of a spontaneous normal development of these activities is pure mythology. The natural, or native, pow- ers furnish the initiating and limi...

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... Muhammad derived his doctrines of the Genii from the Persian and In- dian mythology, and attempted to identify them with the 231 The Koran Satan and...