Outlines of Primitive Belief Among the Indo-European RacesC. Scribner's Sons, 1882 - 534 pages |
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abstract Æsir Agni ancient Apollo Aryaman Aryan Aryas Ask and Embla Asvin Athênê belongs called chapter character clouds creed dawn dead death Dêmêtêr Dionysus divinity Dyâus earth goddess Edda Eleusinia Eleusis emotion example express fetich fire gods Greece Greek Hadês heaven henotheism Hêra Heracles Hermês hero history of belief holy Homer human hymns idea imagination Indian Indo-European Indra instinct Jörmungandr kind Kronos land language magic Maruts Max Müller meaning mind Mitra and Varuna moral morning mountain mysteries myth mythic mythology nations nature worship never Odhinn Odysseus once origin Persephonê phase of belief phenomena physical primitive Prithivi race religion religious Rig Veda rites river root sacred Sanskrit Savitar sense serpent soul storm story stream suppose Teutonic things Thorr thou thought tree Varuna Vedas Vedic Völuspá Vritra wanderings Wherefore wind word Yggdrasill Zeus
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Page 123 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!