Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and GravelD. Appleton, 1883 - 452 pages |
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... god of life and light . They burn or cast down their animal gods of the pre - glacial time , and then begins that world - wide worship of the sun which has continued down to our own times . And all this , too , we shall find told in the ...
... god of life and light . They burn or cast down their animal gods of the pre - glacial time , and then begins that world - wide worship of the sun which has continued down to our own times . And all this , too , we shall find told in the ...
Page 125
... gods and a son of the grizzly bears , from which union , we are told , came the In- dian tribes . These skulls represent creatures as far apart , I was about to say , as gods and bears . The " Engis skull , " with its full frontal brain ...
... gods and a son of the grizzly bears , from which union , we are told , came the In- dian tribes . These skulls represent creatures as far apart , I was about to say , as gods and bears . The " Engis skull , " with its full frontal brain ...
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... God there issued from the essence of Brahma a being shaped like a boar , white and exceeding small ; this being , in the space of an hour , grew to the size of an elephant of the largest size , and remained in the air . " That is to say ...
... God there issued from the essence of Brahma a being shaped like a boar , white and exceeding small ; this being , in the space of an hour , grew to the size of an elephant of the largest size , and remained in the air . " That is to say ...
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... gods , in a hollow cavern ; the divine , stubborn - hearted Echidna ( half - nymph , with dark eyes and fair cheeks ; and half , on the other hand , a serpent , huge and terrible and vast ) , speckled , and flesh- devouring , ' neath ...
... gods , in a hollow cavern ; the divine , stubborn - hearted Echidna ( half - nymph , with dark eyes and fair cheeks ; and half , on the other hand , a serpent , huge and terrible and vast ) , speckled , and flesh- devouring , ' neath ...
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... god ; and from his shoulders there were a hundred heads of a serpent , a fierce dragon playing with dusky tongues ... gods to understand , and at another time , again , the voice of a loud - bellowing bull , untamable in force and ...
... god ; and from his shoulders there were a hundred heads of a serpent , a fierce dragon playing with dusky tongues ... gods to understand , and at another time , again , the voice of a loud - bellowing bull , untamable in force and ...
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Page 328 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 258 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; And thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, And the moon stayed, Until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.
Page 290 - As the waters fail from the sea, And the flood decayeth and drieth up : So man lieth down, and riseth not. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 448 - Our Place among Infinities: A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around us.
Page 222 - And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation; and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light: And they did live by watchfires - and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings...
Page 419 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Page 421 - ... but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 257 - And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
Page 420 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood...
Page 277 - It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God ? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker...