Conversations on the Mythology of the Ancients, Or, A History of the Heathen Deities, 第 2 卷Carlton & Phillips, 1854 |
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Achilles adoration afterward altar ancient appeared arms beautiful became blood body born brother brought called carried cause cents changed Christian crown daughter dead death dedicated deities described earth especially evil eyes father feet fell fire gave give given goddess gods golden governed hand head heaven held hell Hercules honour horn horses human idol infernal island Italy Juno Jupiter killed king labour Latin light lived manner married means mentions mind mother mountain observed obtained offered opened oracle Pluto poets present Price punished received regions represented right hand river Romans Rome sacrificed Saxons sent seven shape ship side signifies sister sometimes souls stars stones stood supposed temple Theseus things thought took Troy turned unto virtue whence wife Woden women wood worshipped young
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第 97 頁 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue; The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
第 101 頁 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
第 84 頁 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
第 96 頁 - At tables playing Don Gaiferos sits, For Melisendra is forgotten now.2 And that personage who appears there with a crown on his head and a sceptre in his hand...
第 97 頁 - Typhon huge ending in snaky twine ; Our Babe, to show his Godhead true, Can in his swaddling bands control the damned crew.
第 93 頁 - They were mounted on swift horses, with drawn swords in their hands; and in the throng of battle selected such as were destined to slaughter, and conducted them to Valhalla, the hall of Odin, or paradise of the brave; where they attended the banquet, and served the departed heroes with horns of mead and ale.
第 96 頁 - Juggernaut. No record of ancient or modern history can give, I think, an adequate idea of this valley of death ; it may be truly compared with the ' Valley of Hinnom.' The idol called Juggernaut has been considered as the Moloch of the present age ; and he is justly so named, for the sacrifices offered up to him by self-devotement are not less criminal, perhaps not less numerous, than those recorded of the Moloch of Canaan. Two other idols accompany Juggernaut, namely, Boloram and Shubudra, his brother...
第 14 頁 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
第 96 頁 - I have seen Juggernaut. The scene at Buddruck is but the vestibule to Juggernaut. No record of ancient or modern history can give, I think, an adequate idea of this valley of death ; it may be truly compared with the ' Valley of Hinnom.' The idol called Juggernaut has been considered as the Moloch of the present age ; and he is justly so named, for the sacrifices offered up to him by self-devotement are not less criminal, perhaps not less numerous, than those recorded...
第 52 頁 - ... antidote that Mercury had given him, and then ran into her cave with his sword drawn, and forced her to restore his companions to their former shapes again.