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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... 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 ascending ...
... 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 ascending ...
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... mythology . We may rest assured , says Brugsch Bey , that at the basis of the designations Muzur ( Assyrian ) , Mizr ( Arabic ) , Mitzraim ( Hebrew ) , there lies an original form consisting of the three letters mr s , all 1 Egyptian ...
... mythology . We may rest assured , says Brugsch Bey , that at the basis of the designations Muzur ( Assyrian ) , Mizr ( Arabic ) , Mitzraim ( Hebrew ) , there lies an original form consisting of the three letters mr s , all 1 Egyptian ...
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... mythology , a typology , absolutely autochthonous . We see no sign of Egypt in embryo ; of its inception , growth , development , birth , nothing is known . It has no visible line of descent , and so far as modern notions go , no ...
... mythology , a typology , absolutely autochthonous . We see no sign of Egypt in embryo ; of its inception , growth , development , birth , nothing is known . It has no visible line of descent , and so far as modern notions go , no ...
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... mythology . The Stone Age of Egypt is visible in the stone knife continued to be used for the purpose of circumcision , and in the preparation of their mummies . The stone knife was a type persisting from the time of the stone ...
... mythology . The Stone Age of Egypt is visible in the stone knife continued to be used for the purpose of circumcision , and in the preparation of their mummies . The stone knife was a type persisting from the time of the stone ...
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... mythology founded on the observation of natural phenomena at that time established , but the mythology had then passed into the final or eschatological phase , and a system of spiritual typology was already evolved from the primordial ...
... mythology founded on the observation of natural phenomena at that time established , but the mythology had then passed into the final or eschatological phase , and a system of spiritual typology was already evolved from the primordial ...
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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