A Book of the Beginnings: Containing an Attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the Lost Origines of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols, Religion and Language, with Egypt for the Mouthpiece and Africa as the Birthplace, Volume 1Williams & Norgate, 1881 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 66
Page 2
... truths of mythology as the two factors of being , and how they personified breath and water , we shall more or less perceive the initiatory import of this wonderful arrangement of wind and tide , and its combination of descending and ...
... truths of mythology as the two factors of being , and how they personified breath and water , we shall more or less perceive the initiatory import of this wonderful arrangement of wind and tide , and its combination of descending and ...
Page 6
... truths of all Egypt's teaching , the two sources of existence ultimately called flesh and spirit , the blood source and breathing soul . About the time when the Nile began to rise in Lower Egypt , there alighted in the land a remarkable ...
... truths of all Egypt's teaching , the two sources of existence ultimately called flesh and spirit , the blood source and breathing soul . About the time when the Nile began to rise in Lower Egypt , there alighted in the land a remarkable ...
Page 9
... Truths before the time of Taht ; Sut was the first form of Hermes the Heaven - born . From almost the remotest monumental times , dated by Bunsen as the seventh century after Mena , or according to the present reckoning nearly 4,000 ...
... Truths before the time of Taht ; Sut was the first form of Hermes the Heaven - born . From almost the remotest monumental times , dated by Bunsen as the seventh century after Mena , or according to the present reckoning nearly 4,000 ...
Page 22
... truth . He tells us they had sacred books transmitted to them from ancient times , in which the historical accounts were recorded and kept and then handed on to their successors . In the inscription of Una belonging to the sixth dynasty ...
... truth . He tells us they had sacred books transmitted to them from ancient times , in which the historical accounts were recorded and kept and then handed on to their successors . In the inscription of Una belonging to the sixth dynasty ...
Page 25
... truth which is eternal . In our researches we shall find that at the remotest vanishing points of the decaying races we continually come upon the passing presence of Egypt , diminishing on the horizon in the far - off distance from the ...
... truth which is eternal . In our researches we shall find that at the remotest vanishing points of the decaying races we continually come upon the passing presence of Egypt , diminishing on the horizon in the far - off distance from the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according ancient Ankh appears applied Bear become beginning belonging birth boundary breath British called carried child circle common corn crossing custom dead denotes derived determinative divided divine double earlier earth Egypt Egyptian English equinox equivalent extant female feminine figure fire followed four genitrix give goddess gods Greek hand head heaven Hebrew hence hieroglyphics hill Horus identified ideograph Irish island isles Kêd kind king known land language later light living lord lower male means measure monuments mother mythology nature nine origin pass period person present probably race Rekh relation represented river root round sacred says seat sense seven signifies solar soul spirit stone symbol temple thing tree Truths turn typical Welsh woman word