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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... nature ( save man ) has conspired to preserve the works of art , and make 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 ...
... nature ( save man ) has conspired to preserve the works of art , and make 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 ...
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... Nature's chemistry , aided by the Hatches or Dams . The Assyrians called Egypt Muzr . Muzau is source , an issue of water , a gathering or collecting . It is the Egyptian mes , the product of a river . Now it is important for the ...
... Nature's chemistry , aided by the Hatches or Dams . The Assyrians called Egypt Muzr . Muzau is source , an issue of water , a gathering or collecting . It is the Egyptian mes , the product of a river . Now it is important for the ...
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... 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 matter of mythology . The text of chapter ...
... 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 matter of mythology . The text of chapter ...
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... nature of the people is not likely to be found contemporary with the perfection of their art . The ascent is out of sight , and the Stone Age of Egypt is buried beneath a hundred feet of Nile sediment , but the opponents of evolution ...
... nature of the people is not likely to be found contemporary with the perfection of their art . The ascent is out of sight , and the Stone Age of Egypt is buried beneath a hundred feet of Nile sediment , but the opponents of evolution ...
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... nature of the typology and hieroglyphics that this is almost an impossibility for any but an African people . The camel being a late importation into Egypt and other African ' Brugsch , History of Egypt , vol . i . p . 2 , Eng . Tr ...
... nature of the typology and hieroglyphics that this is almost an impossibility for any but an African people . The camel being a late importation into Egypt and other African ' Brugsch , History of Egypt , vol . i . p . 2 , Eng . Tr ...
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