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 1
... turns over as leaves in a book , revealing strange readings of the past ; every chip and shard of the frag- ments not yet ground down to dusty nothing may possibly have their secret to tell.1 The Great Pyramid is built at the northern ...
... turns over as leaves in a book , revealing strange readings of the past ; every chip and shard of the frag- ments not yet ground down to dusty nothing may possibly have their secret to tell.1 The Great Pyramid is built at the northern ...
Page 14
... turn the face to the east , the quarter of the rising sun , and accordingly they called the east the front side , ' the west the ' hinder side , ' the south the ' right , ' and the north the ' left . ' In opposition to all this the ...
... turn the face to the east , the quarter of the rising sun , and accordingly they called the east the front side , ' the west the ' hinder side , ' the south the ' right , ' and the north the ' left . ' In opposition to all this the ...
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... turning point , and the quarter whence came the breath of life to the parched people of the southern lands . This accounts for the south being the Akkadian " funereal point " and the hinder part . When the namers from the south had ...
... turning point , and the quarter whence came the breath of life to the parched people of the southern lands . This accounts for the south being the Akkadian " funereal point " and the hinder part . When the namers from the south had ...
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... turns swine into it , and when the seed has been trodden in by the swine , he waits for harvest time . " But the land was a fixed quantity on the surface , however much it increased in depth , and the supply of food was therefore ...
... turns swine into it , and when the seed has been trodden in by the swine , he waits for harvest time . " But the land was a fixed quantity on the surface , however much it increased in depth , and the supply of food was therefore ...
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... turn for the birth of language , the beginnings of all human creation , and , as the Arabic saying puts it , let us " honour the first although the followers do better . " Among the Æthiops of many thousand years ago there lived and 1 ...
... turn for the birth of language , the beginnings of all human creation , and , as the Arabic saying puts it , let us " honour the first although the followers do better . " Among the Æthiops of many thousand years ago there lived and 1 ...
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abode Akkadian ancient Ankh Annwn Atum Bear birthplace breath Brithon British bull cake called cave child circle corn Cornish crossing dead denotes derived divine Druidic Druids Dyved earth Egypt Egyptian mythology Egyptian name enclosure English equinox equivalent extant female feminine festival figure fire Gaelic genitrix goddess gods Greek Gwydion Hathor heaven Hebrew hence hieroglyphics hill hippopotamus Horus identified ideograph inundation Irish island isles Kêd khat Kheb Khebt Kheft Khekh Khem Khen Khent Khepr Khept Kherp Khet Kymry land language lord male Maori means monuments mother mythology Nile nine origin Osiris Ptah Pwyll race reckoning Rekh Renn represented river root round sacred Sanskrit says seat seven signifies solar soul spirit stone Stonehenge symbol Taht Taliesin temple tree Typhon typical Uskh vernal equinox Wales Welsh whence womb word