The Jonah Legend: A Suggestion of InterpretationG.Richards, 1899 - 182 頁 |
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Abydos abyss according ancient animal antelope appears assumed Atargatis Avatar Babylon baptism becomes Berosus Book of Jonah boys Brahmanical called celebrated ceremony Chaldea character Church connected cult Dagon dead death deities deluge descend described divine doubt dramatic Duk-duk early earth Egypt Egyptian Eleusinian mysteries Eridu evidence existed explain fish fish-god goddess gods Golden Bough Greek Hades heaven Herodotus Hibbert Lectures hieroglyphics holy Horus Ibid idea implied India initiation initiatory legend initiatory rites Jonah legend knowledge known Matsya means Mirkhond mysteries myth mythology Nineveh novitiate Oannes origin Osiris performed Persephone piece of acting practised priests primitive probably Professor Sayce prophet Purâna rebirth reference represented resurrection ritual sacred says sculptures Semites Sheol ship skin Smith's Dictionary soul story of Jonah supposed swallowed symbolism Talmudic temple theory things Tiamat tion took place totem Vishnu Womb of Sheol word worship writer
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第 123 頁 - And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord ; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold : only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
第 100 頁 - The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast Thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
第 105 頁 - An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas : for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly ; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
第 90 頁 - And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
第 2 頁 - Every honey contains a certain amount of these colloids, and it is only within the last few years that we have begun to realize the significance of this exceedingly important group of substances in honey research.
第 61 頁 - ... poets. All the Greek religious poetry treating of death and the world beyond the grave refers to the deities whose influence was supposed to be exercised in the dark region at the centre of the earth, and who were thought to have little connexion with the political and social relations of hutmm life.
第 62 頁 - the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology and its attendant rites, grounded on a view of nature, less fanciful, more earnest, and better fitted to awaken both philosophical thought and religious feeling.
第 144 頁 - Her temple is destroyed, but the Sacred Doves — sacred by immemorial legends on the spot, and celebrated there even as late as Eusebius — still fill with their cooings the luxuriant gardens which grow in the sandy hollow within the ruined walls.
第 64 頁 - TO BE INITIATED. THE FIRST STAGE IS NOTHING BUT ERRORS AND UNCERTAINTIES ; LABORIOUS WANDERINGS ; A RUDE AND FEARFUL MARCH THROUGH NIGHT AND DARKNESS. AND) NOW ARRIVED ON THE VERGE OF DEATH AND INITIATION, EVERY THING WEARS A DREADFUL ASPECT : IT IS ALL HORROR, TREMBLING, SWEATING, AND AFFRIGHTMENT. BUT THIS SCENE ONCE OVER, A MIRACULOUS AND DIVINE LIGHT DISPLAYS ITSELF ; AND SHINING PLAINS AND FLOWERY MEADOWS OPEN ON ALL HANDS BEFORE THEM.
第 61 頁 - ... considered as typifying the changes in the lot of man ; otherwise Persephone would have been merely a symbol of the seed committed to the ground, and would not have become the queen of the dead. But when the goddess of inanimate nature had become the queen of the dead, it was a natural analogy, which must have early suggested itself, that the return of Persephone to the world of light also denoted a renovation of life and a new birth to men. Hence the Mysteries of Demeter, and especially those...