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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Page 17
... Seven years of additional inves- tigation , together with greatly increased materials , have convinced me that they are neither Asiatics nor Europeans but aboriginal and indigenous inhabitants of the Nile or some contiguous region ...
... Seven years of additional inves- tigation , together with greatly increased materials , have convinced me that they are neither Asiatics nor Europeans but aboriginal and indigenous inhabitants of the Nile or some contiguous region ...
Page 21
... Seven hundred miles in length , by seven wide , fruitful and fertile for man and beast . Life was easy there from the first . 66 They gather in the fruits of the earth with less labour than other people , for they have not the toil of ...
... Seven hundred miles in length , by seven wide , fruitful and fertile for man and beast . Life was easy there from the first . 66 They gather in the fruits of the earth with less labour than other people , for they have not the toil of ...
Page 34
... seven days . * Plutarch also says Egypt was at one time sea . Diodorus Siculus affirms that in primitive times , that which was Egypt when he wrote , was said to have been not a country , but one universal sea.5 A persistent Greek ...
... seven days . * Plutarch also says Egypt was at one time sea . Diodorus Siculus affirms that in primitive times , that which was Egypt when he wrote , was said to have been not a country , but one universal sea.5 A persistent Greek ...
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... Seven Stars , was represented as the bringer - forth from the waters in the shape of a hippopotamus , and when Kush , or Æthiopia , was named as the North , the hinder part , literally the hinder thigh , as a sign of the birthplace , it ...
... Seven Stars , was represented as the bringer - forth from the waters in the shape of a hippopotamus , and when Kush , or Æthiopia , was named as the North , the hinder part , literally the hinder thigh , as a sign of the birthplace , it ...
Page 42
... seven great gods as reckoned by the Chaldeans , and the great mother of all who is synonymous with the number seven , and who was personified as the goddess of the Great Bear . What- soever truth there may be in the statement , there ...
... seven great gods as reckoned by the Chaldeans , and the great mother of all who is synonymous with the number seven , and who was personified as the goddess of the Great Bear . What- soever truth there may be in the statement , there ...
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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