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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... head a sign which Wilkinson thought indicated " cultivated land , " but it means the land created from the waters , determined by the sign of marshland or land recovered from the waters . The sign is the de- terminative of Hat , chaos ...
... head a sign which Wilkinson thought indicated " cultivated land , " but it means the land created from the waters , determined by the sign of marshland or land recovered from the waters . The sign is the de- terminative of Hat , chaos ...
Page 7
... head of a procession of life that is illimitably vast . It is as if it always had been . There it stands in awful ancientness , like its own pyramid in the dawn , its sphinx among the sands , or its palm amid the desert . From the first ...
... head of a procession of life that is illimitably vast . It is as if it always had been . There it stands in awful ancientness , like its own pyramid in the dawn , its sphinx among the sands , or its palm amid the desert . From the first ...
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... head , except the single lock that remained drooping down . This was the emblem of Horus the Child , continued as the type of childhood from those children of the human race , the Africans . Yet the Egyptians held the Libyans in ...
... head , except the single lock that remained drooping down . This was the emblem of Horus the Child , continued as the type of childhood from those children of the human race , the Africans . Yet the Egyptians held the Libyans in ...
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... head of the Gorillidæ had time to grow and bulge into the frontal region and climb into the human crown , until Egypt at length produced and sent forth her long - heads , the melanochroid type found in divers parts of the world ...
... head of the Gorillidæ had time to grow and bulge into the frontal region and climb into the human crown , until Egypt at length produced and sent forth her long - heads , the melanochroid type found in divers parts of the world ...
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... head of the Nile was known to the Egyptians many thousand years since , and that the fact is stereotyped in the triple ideograph of the inundation . Professor Oppert assures us from his standpoint , that in all cases we may take for ...
... head of the Nile was known to the Egyptians many thousand years since , and that the fact is stereotyped in the triple ideograph of the inundation . Professor Oppert assures us from his standpoint , that in all cases we may take for ...
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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