An Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and FolklorePaul, 1881 - 380 Seiten |
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... father , Laios , the Theban king ; of Cyrus , who slays the Median king Astyages ; and of Romulus and Remus , who slay Amulius . These heroes are all brought up in great simplicity and poverty ; but their real rank is in each case made ...
... father , Laios , the Theban king ; of Cyrus , who slays the Median king Astyages ; and of Romulus and Remus , who slay Amulius . These heroes are all brought up in great simplicity and poverty ; but their real rank is in each case made ...
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... father , Laios . It told how , by a wisdom peculiar to himself , he understood the language of the Sphinx , how he solved her riddles , and delivered his country from the plague of drought and sickness caused by the presence of the ...
... father , Laios . It told how , by a wisdom peculiar to himself , he understood the language of the Sphinx , how he solved her riddles , and delivered his country from the plague of drought and sickness caused by the presence of the ...
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... father Laios . The great dragon shuts up the rain , and brings plague upon the city . The Sphinx can be con- quered only by him who can expound her riddles . Oidipous interprets them , and discomfits the dragon . The hero wins the wife ...
... father Laios . The great dragon shuts up the rain , and brings plague upon the city . The Sphinx can be con- quered only by him who can expound her riddles . Oidipous interprets them , and discomfits the dragon . The hero wins the wife ...
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... father ; but it would be rash , perhaps , to assign priority in order of time to myths of the heaven over those of the sun , or to the latter over the former . The Hesiodic Theogony , which gives a long ancestry to Zeus , the supreme ...
... father ; but it would be rash , perhaps , to assign priority in order of time to myths of the heaven over those of the sun , or to the latter over the former . The Hesiodic Theogony , which gives a long ancestry to Zeus , the supreme ...
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... Father of all men ; and thus we have the prayer : ' Let me not yet , O Varuna , enter into the house of clay ; have mercy , Almighty , have mercy . 1 The name Varuna corresponds to the Greek Ouranos , and is built up on the same root ...
... Father of all men ; and thus we have the prayer : ' Let me not yet , O Varuna , enter into the house of clay ; have mercy , Almighty , have mercy . 1 The name Varuna corresponds to the Greek Ouranos , and is built up on the same root ...
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