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 |
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... dead Egypt as it were the embalmed body of an early time eternized . Once a year the deluge comes down from above , flowing from the lakes lying far away , large as inland seas , and transforms the dry land into a garden , making the ...
... dead Egypt as it were the embalmed body of an early time eternized . Once a year the deluge comes down from above , flowing from the lakes lying far away , large as inland seas , and transforms the dry land into a garden , making the ...
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... dead , is the degraded form in the Egyptian eschatology of the Great Mother who in the earlier mythology had been doubly - first in heaven in her twin starry types of the Great Bear and Sothis the Dog - Star , the types of Sut - Typhon ...
... dead , is the degraded form in the Egyptian eschatology of the Great Mother who in the earlier mythology had been doubly - first in heaven in her twin starry types of the Great Bear and Sothis the Dog - Star , the types of Sut - Typhon ...
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... dead , the persons of their priests and kings , the statues of their gods ; anointing with unguents being an ordinary mode of welcome to guests on visiting the houses of friends . This glorifying by means of grease is essentially an ...
... dead , the persons of their priests and kings , the statues of their gods ; anointing with unguents being an ordinary mode of welcome to guests on visiting the houses of friends . This glorifying by means of grease is essentially an ...
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... Dead that Taht , the recorder of the gods , was otherwise Sut , who had preceded Taht in the character of the scribe . How this was so remains to be unravelled . Enough for the present to say that it was so , and to refer here to the ...
... Dead that Taht , the recorder of the gods , was otherwise Sut , who had preceded Taht in the character of the scribe . How this was so remains to be unravelled . Enough for the present to say that it was so , and to refer here to the ...
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... dead were held in the heart of the living , and their place of preservation was the earliest sanctuary . The tomb of one life was the womb of the next . The meskhen , or place of new birth for the sun in heaven , furnished the type of ...
... dead were held in the heart of the living , and their place of preservation was the earliest sanctuary . The tomb of one life was the womb of the next . The meskhen , or place of new birth for the sun in heaven , furnished the type of ...
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abode Akkadian ancient Ankh Annwn Atum Bear birthplace breath Brithon British bull cake called cave child circle corn Cornish crossing dead denotes derived divine Druidic Druids Dyved earth Egypt Egyptian mythology Egyptian name enclosure English equinox equivalent extant female feminine festival figure fire Gaelic genitrix goddess gods Greek Gwydion Hathor heaven Hebrew hence hieroglyphics hill hippopotamus Horus identified ideograph inundation Irish island isles Kêd khat Kheb Khebt Kheft Khekh Khem Khen Khent Khepr Khept Kherp Khet Kymry land language lord male means monuments mother mythology Nile nine origin Osiris Ptah Pwyll race reckoning Rekh Renn represented river root round sacred Sanskrit says seat seven signifies solar soul spirit stone Stonehenge symbol Taht Taliesin temple tree Typhon typical Uskh vernal equinox Wales Welsh whence womb word