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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Page 51
... lake five miles off and Ceres came from her temple on the opposite side of the city to pay an annual visit to her daughter . The same custom still prevails ; for the Madonna is removed from the Chiesa della Madre to that of the Padri ...
... lake five miles off and Ceres came from her temple on the opposite side of the city to pay an annual visit to her daughter . The same custom still prevails ; for the Madonna is removed from the Chiesa della Madre to that of the Padri ...
Page 69
... Lake of Killarney , there grows a tree called the eye of the needle , from a hole caused by its rising with a double trunk , and uniting again above . When the visitor asked the use of squeezing through it , the guide replied , I ...
... Lake of Killarney , there grows a tree called the eye of the needle , from a hole caused by its rising with a double trunk , and uniting again above . When the visitor asked the use of squeezing through it , the guide replied , I ...
Page 70
... we need not wonder , if in a country , which 1 Legends of the Lakes by Crofton Croker . 2 Roberts's Popular Antiquities of Wales , p . 238 . 1 has enjoyed less advantages of education and fewer opportunities 70 PERMANENCE OF ANCIENT.
... we need not wonder , if in a country , which 1 Legends of the Lakes by Crofton Croker . 2 Roberts's Popular Antiquities of Wales , p . 238 . 1 has enjoyed less advantages of education and fewer opportunities 70 PERMANENCE OF ANCIENT.
Page 96
... Lake of the Gods , Amara , between some mountains which seem to be part of Somagiri , the Mountains of the Moon ; the country round being Chandre- stan , or Moonland , and most of the mountains and rivers in it having appellations ...
... Lake of the Gods , Amara , between some mountains which seem to be part of Somagiri , the Mountains of the Moon ; the country round being Chandre- stan , or Moonland , and most of the mountains and rivers in it having appellations ...
Page 111
... lake . The in- habitants of Pulo Nias worship Batu Ba Danaw.2 Batu is the name of a hill , like the rock in Ceylon , which is called Prabat . The history of this name . is explained by a passage in Kampfer . Wistnu , " says he , " is ...
... lake . The in- habitants of Pulo Nias worship Batu Ba Danaw.2 Batu is the name of a hill , like the rock in Ceylon , which is called Prabat . The history of this name . is explained by a passage in Kampfer . Wistnu , " says he , " is ...
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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