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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... of the waters was added layer by layer to the soil . Three months inun- dation and nine months dry made up the year . 1 Euseb . Praep . Evang . B. 9 . The nine months coincided with the human period of gestation , a fact EGYPT . 5.
... of the waters was added layer by layer to the soil . Three months inun- dation and nine months dry made up the year . 1 Euseb . Praep . Evang . B. 9 . The nine months coincided with the human period of gestation , a fact EGYPT . 5.
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... period of gestation , a fact most fruitful in suggestion , as everything seems to have designedly been in this birth - place of ideas . They dated their year from the first quicken- ing heave of the river , coincident with the summer ...
... period of gestation , a fact most fruitful in suggestion , as everything seems to have designedly been in this birth - place of ideas . They dated their year from the first quicken- ing heave of the river , coincident with the summer ...
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... period who went back to re - conquer Æthiopia . They mark the height of attainment of the Egyptians before they came down into the Nile valley . Art does not go back in that way , nor is it a question of retrogression but of development ...
... period who went back to re - conquer Æthiopia . They mark the height of attainment of the Egyptians before they came down into the Nile valley . Art does not go back in that way , nor is it a question of retrogression but of development ...
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... period of twenty - six thousand years . And he does not doubt that on their line the ethnologists will ultimately demand 1 Journ . of Ethnol . Soc . 1871. * Owen , Journ . of Anthrop . Soc . 1874 . VOL . I. C IL as great a length of ...
... period of twenty - six thousand years . And he does not doubt that on their line the ethnologists will ultimately demand 1 Journ . of Ethnol . Soc . 1871. * Owen , Journ . of Anthrop . Soc . 1874 . VOL . I. C IL as great a length of ...
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... period dominated by Egypt , and conscribed for her armies . In this , one of the oldest historical documents , the negroes from Nam , the negroes from Aruam , the negroes from Uaua ( Nubia ) , the negroes from Kau , the negroes from the ...
... period dominated by Egypt , and conscribed for her armies . In this , one of the oldest historical documents , the negroes from Nam , the negroes from Aruam , the negroes from Uaua ( Nubia ) , the negroes from Kau , the negroes from the ...
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