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... chapter on the griffin : they are Ch'u Tz and Shan Hai Ching , which include magical material from the Yangtze Valley . A poem from the first of these , Chao Hun , dates from about the third century BC . Oh soul come back ! for the west ...
... chapter on the griffin : they are Ch'u Tz and Shan Hai Ching , which include magical material from the Yangtze Valley . A poem from the first of these , Chao Hun , dates from about the third century BC . Oh soul come back ! for the west ...
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... CHAPTER FOUR : THE BEAST OF LASCAUX Bataille , G .: Lascaux , or the Birth of Art . Lausanne , 1955 . Breuil , Henri : Four Hundred Years of Cave Art . Montignac , 1952 . Brodrick , Alan Houghton : Lascaux , a Commentary . London , 1949 ...
... CHAPTER FOUR : THE BEAST OF LASCAUX Bataille , G .: Lascaux , or the Birth of Art . Lausanne , 1955 . Breuil , Henri : Four Hundred Years of Cave Art . Montignac , 1952 . Brodrick , Alan Houghton : Lascaux , a Commentary . London , 1949 ...
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... CHAPTER TWENTY - ONE HERALDIC CREATURES Allen , John Romilly : Early Christian Symbolism in Great Britain and Ireland . London , 1887 . Anderson , Mary D .: Animal Carvings in British Churches . Cam- bridge , 1938 . Imagery in British ...
... CHAPTER TWENTY - ONE HERALDIC CREATURES Allen , John Romilly : Early Christian Symbolism in Great Britain and Ireland . London , 1887 . Anderson , Mary D .: Animal Carvings in British Churches . Cam- bridge , 1938 . Imagery in British ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
Copyright | |
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