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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... races as with The hieroglyphics are older than letters , they come next to the living gesture signs that preceded speech . But less - developed stages are found out of Egypt than in it because Egypt went on growing and sloughing off ...
... races as with The hieroglyphics are older than letters , they come next to the living gesture signs that preceded speech . But less - developed stages are found out of Egypt than in it because Egypt went on growing and sloughing off ...
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... race . The most ancient portion known of the ritual , getting on for 7,000 years old , shows that not only was the Egyptian mythology founded on the observation of natural phenomena at that time established , but the mythology had then ...
... race . The most ancient portion known of the ritual , getting on for 7,000 years old , shows that not only was the Egyptian mythology founded on the observation of natural phenomena at that time established , but the mythology had then ...
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... races and languages . But not a vestige of evidence has been adduced for the pre - existence of the Egyptian civilisation , art , hieroglyphics , in any other land before these are discovered ready - made in the valley of the Nile ...
... races and languages . But not a vestige of evidence has been adduced for the pre - existence of the Egyptian civilisation , art , hieroglyphics , in any other land before these are discovered ready - made in the valley of the Nile ...
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... race ready - made bag and baggage in the old cataclysmal fashion . But where , he asks , " is the modern Hir - Seshta to lift the veil which still hides the origin of these men of yore ? " Where , indeed ! The Egyptian language , he ...
... race ready - made bag and baggage in the old cataclysmal fashion . But where , he asks , " is the modern Hir - Seshta to lift the veil which still hides the origin of these men of yore ? " Where , indeed ! The Egyptian language , he ...
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... races of the dark land , and in no other . All the four colours , black , red , yellow , and white , meet upon the monuments , and they all blend in Egyptian types . The red men and the yellow are there as Egyptians , with the ...
... races of the dark land , and in no other . All the four colours , black , red , yellow , and white , meet upon the monuments , and they all blend in Egyptian types . The red men and the yellow are there as Egyptians , with the ...
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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