The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore: A Study in Comparative ArchaeologyThe University Press, 1911 - 122 Seiten |
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... fact that no publication concerning them had hitherto appeared in literature . The greater part of the matter had first to be collected from the existing popular tradition . For all kind help rendered to him in this task , the author ...
... fact that no publication concerning them had hitherto appeared in literature . The greater part of the matter had first to be collected from the existing popular tradition . For all kind help rendered to him in this task , the author ...
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... facts and details , which will afford a support for the explanation , may come to light . In the first place , we must turn to the kindred peoples in the east and north , and to the neighbouring country in the south . In Norway the ...
... facts and details , which will afford a support for the explanation , may come to light . In the first place , we must turn to the kindred peoples in the east and north , and to the neighbouring country in the south . In Norway the ...
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... fact seems rather to be that the thunderstone , being already beneficial in so many cases , has come to be included in the motley collection of remedies employed by popular medi- cine ; other remedies are used in conjunction with it for ...
... fact seems rather to be that the thunderstone , being already beneficial in so many cases , has come to be included in the motley collection of remedies employed by popular medi- cine ; other remedies are used in conjunction with it for ...
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... rarer occurrence in the lowlands than in the mountains . " I am confirmed , " he says , " in this idea by the fact that in all the villages in the Shevaroy Hills , where the planter had removed stone axes from the altars ,
... rarer occurrence in the lowlands than in the mountains . " I am confirmed , " he says , " in this idea by the fact that in all the villages in the Shevaroy Hills , where the planter had removed stone axes from the altars ,
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... fact , the case . It is of little significance that thunderstones and a certain number of the features of the beliefs described above are occasionally referred to in medieval literature ; but in ancient Greece we meet with traditions ...
... fact , the case . It is of little significance that thunderstones and a certain number of the features of the beliefs described above are occasionally referred to in medieval literature ; but in ancient Greece we meet with traditions ...
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Aalborg Adad altar amongst amulet ancient ancient Greece Asia Assyrian Babylonian belemnites bronze age bronze axe called thunderstones CARTAILHAC classical coins Communicated in 1909 countries cult cult-object Danish depicted double-axe earth East Prussia echinites evidence fire flint axes flint wedges fossilized sea-urchins Funen Greece Greek Hittite house against lightning idea inscription Juppiter keraunos Knossos later lightning Löventhal milk Mjölnir MONTELIUS Mycenæan Mylasa National Museum natural nord Nyland origin Öster parish pass for thunderstones peasants Perkuno pierced places popular belief Poseidon primitive prongs protected the house protection against lightning regarded as thunderstones religion religious representation Revue archéol roof round Rügen shape similar Småland southern India stone antiquities stone axes stone implements strokes of lightning struck by lightning supposed Sveriges forntid Thor's hammer thunder-arrow thunderbolt thundergod thunderstone belief thunderweapon traditions triaina trident trisula trolls Usener Vendsyssel weapon worship Zeus
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Seite 107 - Sotacus et alia duo genera fecit cerauniae, nigrae rubentisque; similes eas esse securibus; ex his quae nigrae sint ac rotundae, sacras esse; urbes per illas expugnari et classes; baetulos vocari; quae vero longae sint, ceraunias. Faciunt et aliam raram admodum, Magorum studiis expetitam, quoniam non aliubi inveniatur quam in loco fulmine icto.
Seite 112 - Vt illa palam prima postrema ex illis tabulis ceraue recitata sunt sine dolo malo, utique ea hic hodie rectissime intellecta sunt, illis legibus populus Romanus prior non deficiet. Si prior defexit publico 8 consilio dolo malo, tum tu ille Diespiter populum Romanum sic ferito ut ego hunc porcum hic hodie feriam ; tantoque magis ferito quanto magis potes pollesque.
Seite 111 - Jörns lapis gewesen sein: lapidem silicem tenebant juraturi per Jovem haec verba dicentes: 'si sciens fallo turn me Dispiter salva urbe arceque bonis ejiciat, uti ego hunc lapidem...
Seite 110 - fulguritum, id quod est fulmine ictum ; qui locus statim fieri putabatur religiosus, quod eum Deus sibi dicasse videretur.
Seite ii - The Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series is supervised by an Editorial Committee consisting of MR JAMES, Litt.D., FBA, Provost of Kings College, P.
Seite 112 - Carthaginiensibus redderet. fetiales cum in Africam ad foedus feriendum ire iuberentur , ipsis postulantibus senatus consultum factum est in haec verba, ut privos lapides silices privasque verbenas secum ferrent: uti praetor Romamis imperaret, ut foedus ferirent, illi praetorem sagmina poscerenL herbae id genus ex arce sumptum fetialibus dari solet.
Seite 57 - ... ancient seat of civilization. Together with the axe (in Western Asia Minor the double-edged, and towards the centre of Asia the single-edged, axe) it became a regular attribute of the Asiatic thunder-gods . . . The Indian trisula and the Greek triaina are both its descendants
Seite 110 - The custom was to bury in such places a stone to represent the lightning (' in usu fuit ut augures vel aruspices adducti de Etruria certis temporibus fulmina transfigurata in lapides infra terram absconderent '). Pliny expressly says that this had been done at the spot in question in the comitium (HN 15.
Seite v - Greece, were made the starting-point in the exposition, was the fact that no publication concerning them had hitherto appeared in literature. The greater part of the matter had first to be collected from the existing popular tradition. For all kind help rendered to him in this task, the author now gives his best thanks. Many communications have been received through the Dansk Folkemindesamling (Danish Folklore Collection) in answer to an appeal in the papers. Another part of the material, which proved...
Seite 19 - Many points go to prove that the double-axe is a representation of the lightning (see USENER, p. 20). The worship of it was kept up in Tenedos and in several cities in the south-west of Asia Minor, and it appears in later historical times in the cult of the thundergod of Asia Minor (Zeus Labrayndeus). An impression from a seal-stone shows the double-axe placed together with a zigzag line, which represents the flash of lightning (EVANS, Knossos, 1902, p.