The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable". (1855).Charles Mills Gayley |
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... stones and clods ; it was the horned huntress Artemis , coursing through the upper ether , or bathing herself in the clear lake ; or it was Aphrodite , protectress of lovers , born of the sea - foam in the East , near Cyprus . The ...
... stones and clods ; it was the horned huntress Artemis , coursing through the upper ether , or bathing herself in the clear lake ; or it was Aphrodite , protectress of lovers , born of the sea - foam in the East , near Cyprus . The ...
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... , Mythology . Mannhardt , Antike Wald- und Feldkultus , Berlin , 1877. E. B. Tylor , Anthropology ; Primitive Culture . and stones on the same level of personality and life ORIGIN AND ELEMENTS OF MYTH . 135 Theory of Progress.
... , Mythology . Mannhardt , Antike Wald- und Feldkultus , Berlin , 1877. E. B. Tylor , Anthropology ; Primitive Culture . and stones on the same level of personality and life ORIGIN AND ELEMENTS OF MYTH . 135 Theory of Progress.
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... stones on the same level of personality and life . " The forces of nature , animals , and things have for these Polynesians and Bushmen the same powers and attributes that men have ; and in their opinion men have the following ...
... stones on the same level of personality and life . " The forces of nature , animals , and things have for these Polynesians and Bushmen the same powers and attributes that men have ; and in their opinion men have the following ...
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... stone weapons- are peculiar to no one national taste or skill , they are what might have been expected of human conditions and intelligence . " Many myths may be called ' human ' in this sense . They are the rough product of the early ...
... stone weapons- are peculiar to no one national taste or skill , they are what might have been expected of human conditions and intelligence . " Many myths may be called ' human ' in this sense . They are the rough product of the early ...
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... stone at Tune in Norway . From such an alphabet the Anglo- Saxon runes were derived . Inscriptions in later Scandinavian runes have been discovered in Sweden , Denmark , and the Isle of Man . The characters are of the stiff and angular ...
... stone at Tune in Norway . From such an alphabet the Anglo- Saxon runes were derived . Inscriptions in later Scandinavian runes have been discovered in Sweden , Denmark , and the Isle of Man . The characters are of the stiff and angular ...
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