The Doctrine of the Deluge: Vindicating the Scriptural Account from the Doubts which Have Recently Been Cast Upon it by Geological Speculations, Volume 1Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838 - Bible |
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... called Sima because they were a Sama or Symbol of the two - peaked Mountain and of the crescent - shaped Ship . Hence , Sama was the Name of insulated Mountains . The Shem of the Builders of Babel Explained . - A Star between Horns a ...
... called Sima because they were a Sama or Symbol of the two - peaked Mountain and of the crescent - shaped Ship . Hence , Sama was the Name of insulated Mountains . The Shem of the Builders of Babel Explained . - A Star between Horns a ...
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... called ' Owhyhee , ' which it is very difficult to recognise in the dress given it by the missionary . He writes it ' Hawaii . ' In like manner , English writers on Hin- doo mythology are accustomed to describe a certain incarnation of ...
... called ' Owhyhee , ' which it is very difficult to recognise in the dress given it by the missionary . He writes it ' Hawaii . ' In like manner , English writers on Hin- doo mythology are accustomed to describe a certain incarnation of ...
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... called Roifollet , went from the village into the woods at Christmas , bawling out , " Ou gui menez . " Hence , says Professor Ro- binson , in his work on Natural Philosophy , " the Guiscarts of Edinburgh , who were persons dis- guised ...
... called Roifollet , went from the village into the woods at Christmas , bawling out , " Ou gui menez . " Hence , says Professor Ro- binson , in his work on Natural Philosophy , " the Guiscarts of Edinburgh , who were persons dis- guised ...
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... called the Gudeman's Croft , was never ploughed or cultivated , but suffered to remain waste , like the temenos of a pagan temple . There must be still many alive who in childhood have been taught to look with wonder on knolls and ...
... called the Gudeman's Croft , was never ploughed or cultivated , but suffered to remain waste , like the temenos of a pagan temple . There must be still many alive who in childhood have been taught to look with wonder on knolls and ...
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... called immediate which may be considered at least 3000 years old ) is undoubtedly from Hindostan ; for there the Sanscrit books speak much of the happy island in the west where the progenitors of man- kind reside and Marco Polo reports ...
... called immediate which may be considered at least 3000 years old ) is undoubtedly from Hindostan ; for there the Sanscrit books speak much of the happy island in the west where the progenitors of man- kind reside and Marco Polo reports ...
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Ammon ancient antiquity Apollodorus Arabic Ararat Arkite Ayeen Akbery Baris Bochart Budha bull called Celtic Celts Chaldee Champollion character constellation crescent Cronus dæmon deity deluge derived Deucalion diluvian divine Doorga dragon earth Egypt Egyptian emblem etymology fable father fire flood gods Grecian Greeks head Hebrew hence Hercules hieroglyphic hill Hindoos Hist honour horns Horus Ibid idol idolatry Indian Irish Isis island Jupiter king lake language meaning Menu Mizraim moon Moor's Hindu Pantheon Mount mountain mysteries mythology Neptune Nile Noah observes ocean Ogyges origin Orion Osiris Ovid Patriarch Pausanias Pelasgi Pelasgian Persian Phut Pleiades Plutarch preserved priests religion remarkable Remphan represented rites river rock sacred Sanscrit Saturn says serpent ship signifies Siva sometimes stars stone Strabo superstition supposed temple Thebes Thoth tradition Typhon Vallancey word worship zodiac δὲ καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῦ τῶν