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Symbolism of the East and West Harriet Georgiana Maria Murray-Aynsley,George C M Birdwood No preview available - 2015 |
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altar amongst ancient appear arms Asia ASIATIC SYMBOLISM believe belonging body Brahmans Bredwardine Brittany Bronze Age brooch Buddha Buddhist called celts centre century Christian church colours connection cross cup-marks curious custom dances district divine dolmen dress emblem Europe European Evil Eye exists feet figure Fire symbols Greek Guernsey hand head Hindû idea idol inches India inhabitants Iron Age Junnar Kashmir kind Ladakh latter legend living Maisûr menhir Mithra monolith monuments Moon Muhammedan Museum Nâga Naples natives Norway object Odin origin ornaments Pagoda parish pass Persian Plate possession present day priest probably races represented resemblance Roman round sacred tree Scandinavia sculptured seems seen serpent side similar singular Śiva slab snake snake worship so-called souls Spain Spiti spot stone styled Sun symbols superstition supposed Svastika temple Tibet tomb tumulus valley village W. C. Lukis woman women worship
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Page xvii - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Page 194 - I will wash my hands in innocency, O Lord : and so will I go to thine altar ; 7 That I may shew the voice of thanksgiving : and tell of all thy wondrous works.
Page 76 - Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering.
Page 81 - For health he calleth upon that which is weak; for life prayeth to that which is dead; for aid humbly beseecheth that which hath least means to help...
Page 51 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Page 150 - The bridegroom goes in procession to the house where the bride's father resides, and is there welcomed as a guest. The bride is given to him by her father in the form usual at every solemn donation, and their hands are bound together with grass. He clothes the bride with an upper and lower garment, and the skirts of her mantle and his are tied together. The bridegroom makes oblations to fire, and the bride drops rice on it as an oblation. The bridegroom solemnly takes her hand in marriage.
Page 107 - ... on which it lay, and removed into a wooden coffin by six of his most intimate friends, after being first wrapped in linen, the face and hands alone being bare. " In one hand they put a purse with some money, to pay the fee of the porter at the gate of paradise ; in the other a certificate, signed by the priest, directed for St. Peter, to witness that the defunct was a good Christian, and deserved admission into heaven. At the head of the coffin was placed a picture of St. Nicholas, a saint greatly...
Page 32 - Taylor says, that in day* of yore, when a church was to be built, they watched and prayed on the vigil of the dedication, and took that point of the horizon where the sun arose for the east, which makes that variation, so that few stand true, except those built between the two equinoxes.
Page 81 - ... hath carved it diligently, when he had nothing else to do, and formed it by the skill of his understanding, and fashioned it to the image of a man; or made it like some vile beast, laying it over with vermilion, and with paint colouring it red, and covering every spot therein...
Page 203 - Bheki (the frog) was a beautiful girl, and that one day, when sitting near a well, she was discovered by a king, who asked her to be his wife. She consented, on condition that he should never show her a drop of water. One day, being tired, she asked the king for water ; the king forgot his promise, brought water, and Bheki disappeared.