 Isis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele of the Phrygians, the Ceres of Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Bellona of the Romans, &c.  The Oriental Herald - Page 3341828Full view - About this book
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1825 - 848 pages
...ancient deities, as some authors observe, comprehended alj nature and all the gods of the heathens. Isis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele of the Phrygians, the Ceres of Eletisis, the Proserpine o'f Sicily the Diana of Crete, the Bellona of the Romans, &c. Osiris and Isis... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1827 - 938 pages
...ancient deities, as some authors observe, comprehended all nature and all the gods of the heathen;. Isis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens,...Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Bellona of the Romans. &c. Osiris and Isis reigned conjointly in Egypt ; but the rebellion of Typhon,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 856 pages
...Plutarch says Isis married her brother Osiris, and mentions some other absurd traditions respecting her. ery body knows, And, new or old, still hasten to a...N ܱ "< 1829 Printed for T. Tegg" Curtis Thomas" Thom the Bellona of the Romans, &c. Osiris and Isis reigned jointly in Egypt, but Typhon, the brother of... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pages
...MORTALS HAS HITHERTO TAKEN OFF MY VFJL." Isis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybelc of the Phrygians, the Ceres of Eleusis, the Proserpine...the Diana of Crete, and the Bellona of the Romans. Mr. Maurice gives the following account of this fabulous divinity, the reading of which will serve... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1852 - 800 pages
...ancient deities, as some authors observe, comprehended all nature, and all the gods of the heathens. Isis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens,...Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Kellona of the Romans Ac. Osiris and Isis reigned conjointly in Egypt; but the rebellion of Typhon,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pages
...her human form in Egypt, where sue taught agriculture, and received divine honours after death. lais was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the...Cybele of the Phrygians, the Ceres of Eleusis, the l*roserpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Bellona of the Romans, &c. The Egyptians believed that... | |
 | Joseph Catafago - Arabic language - 1873 - 1146 pages
...great deity of the world. The Ansariah assert that this Zuhra is the same as the Isis of the Egyptians, the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele...the Phrygians, the Ceres of Eleusis, the Proserpine '•' Sicily, the Diana of Crete, and the Bellona oi the Komans ; that she appeared in the time of... | |
 | Christian life - 1876 - 952 pages
...represented as comprehending all nature, and in some sort all the goddesses of heathendom. Thus she was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the...Phrygians, the Ceres of Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, and the Diana of Crete. The architecture of her temple at Philae was in the light and graceful form... | |
 | J. Richardson Parke - Paraphilias - 1906 - 428 pages
...Babylonia," p. 485, et seq. 1 She was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele of Phrygia, the Ceres of Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete; the eternal, mysterious One, whose veil no mortal has lifted; and the sexual concept concerning whom,... | |
 | Joseph Richardson Parke - Sex - 1906 - 500 pages
...correctly observes, " I venture to express 1 Jastrow, "Religion of Babylonia," p. 485, et seq. 1 She was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele of Phrygia, the Ceres of Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete; the eternal, mysterious... | |
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