The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids, Ascertained by National Documents; and Compared with the General Traditions and Customs of Heathenism, as Illustrated by the Most Eminent Antiquaries of Our Age. With an Appendix, Containing Ancient Poems and Extracts, with Some Remarks on Ancient British Coins...J. Booth, 1809 - 648 strán (strany) This 1809 volume contains a study of the mythology and rites of the British Druids ascertained bynational documents and compared with the general traditions and customs of heathenism. |
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Strana 181
... Hengist , and Taliesin , the president of the Bards in the sixth century ; that great repository of tradition , which was ancient in his days ; that bigot to the religion of his forefathers , which he was not ashamed openly to profess ...
... Hengist , and Taliesin , the president of the Bards in the sixth century ; that great repository of tradition , which was ancient in his days ; that bigot to the religion of his forefathers , which he was not ashamed openly to profess ...
Strana 306
... Hengist , the Saxon king of Kent , furnished the ancient British writers with occasion , for the frequent mention of this venerable pile . The story of this massacre is familiar to the old writers of England and Wales ; but by way of ...
... Hengist , the Saxon king of Kent , furnished the ancient British writers with occasion , for the frequent mention of this venerable pile . The story of this massacre is familiar to the old writers of England and Wales ; but by way of ...
Strana 307
... Hengist sent to assure that monarch , that his purpose of coming into Britain was not to offer any violence to the kingdom , but only to make a vigorous opposition against his son Vortimer , whom he artfully pretended , he thought to ...
... Hengist sent to assure that monarch , that his purpose of coming into Britain was not to offer any violence to the kingdom , but only to make a vigorous opposition against his son Vortimer , whom he artfully pretended , he thought to ...
Strana 308
... Hengist , they were placed with his train , alternately at the tables , under the pretence of con- fidence , and of a friendly intercourse with each other . When the festivity was at the height , and probably , in the unguarded moments ...
... Hengist , they were placed with his train , alternately at the tables , under the pretence of con- fidence , and of a friendly intercourse with each other . When the festivity was at the height , and probably , in the unguarded moments ...
Strana 309
... Hengist's plot , with a quick - beam truncheon . * The Welsh chronicles of Tyssilio and Geoffry , which in this æra , may be allowed to blend some true history with their fable , limit the num- ber which he slew , to seventy men . But ...
... Hengist's plot , with a quick - beam truncheon . * The Welsh chronicles of Tyssilio and Geoffry , which in this æra , may be allowed to blend some true history with their fable , limit the num- ber which he slew , to seventy men . But ...
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Strana 529 - Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Strana 475 - Godhead; so that they arc ** without excuse : because that, when they knew God, they " glorified him not, as God, neither were thankful; but " became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart *' was darkened. " Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, *' and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an. *' image, made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and " four-footed beasts, and creeping things...
Strana 475 - Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves : *3 who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature " more than the Creator, who is or, rather.
Strana 217 - I have fed out of the drum I have drunk out of the cymbal I have entered your bridal chamber; and lo, I am the sole witness to my homecoming.
Strana 175 - And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil : but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us ; it was a chance that happened to us.
Strana 224 - ... on all sides, were at length quenched by a shower of cloudborne water, poured down by the immortal Eendra. And now a heterogeneous stream of the concocted juices of various trees and plants ran down into the briny flood.
Strana 459 - He was companion of Canawon Cynllaith, the' offspring of the goddess of slaughter, whom Aneurin thus commemorates, in the songs of the Gododin : " If, in the banquet of mead and wine, the Saxons sacrificed to Slaughter, the mother of Spoliation; the energetic Eidiol also honoured her before the mount, in the presence of the god of victory, the king who rises in light, and ascends the sky.
Strana 246 - To the brave, to the magnanimous, to the amiabk, to " the generous, who boldly embarks, the ascending stone of " the Bards will prove the harbour of life ! It has asserted the "praise of HEILYN, the mysterious impeller of the sky: '•' and, till the doom shall its symbol be continued.
Strana 175 - And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart ; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
Strana 413 - An egg, containing in it the elements of life, was thought no improper emblem of the ark, in which were preserved the rudiments of the future world : hence, in the Dionusiaca, and in other mysteries, one part of the nocturnal ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg. By this, as we are informed by Porphyry, was signified the world. It seems to have been a favourite symbol, and very ancient, and we find it adopted among many nations.