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... solar myth . It is by the simplest poetic adaptation of the Sun's daily life , typifying Man's life in dawning beauty , in mid- day glory , in evening death , that mythic fancy even fixed the belief in the religions of the world , that ...
... solar myth . It is by the simplest poetic adaptation of the Sun's daily life , typifying Man's life in dawning beauty , in mid- day glory , in evening death , that mythic fancy even fixed the belief in the religions of the world , that ...
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... solar myth , Amenti , the region of the departed , is an under - world or Hades ; the dead passes the gate of the setting sun to traverse the roads of darkness , and behold his father Osiris ; and with a like solar thought the Egyptian ...
... solar myth , Amenti , the region of the departed , is an under - world or Hades ; the dead passes the gate of the setting sun to traverse the roads of darkness , and behold his father Osiris ; and with a like solar thought the Egyptian ...
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... solar myth is manifest , and the description of the fiery abyss in the region of sunset may be compared with one from our own country , in the Anglo- Saxon dialogue of Saturn and Solomon . " Saga me forhwan byth seo sunne read on æfen ...
... solar myth is manifest , and the description of the fiery abyss in the region of sunset may be compared with one from our own country , in the Anglo- Saxon dialogue of Saturn and Solomon . " Saga me forhwan byth seo sunne read on æfen ...
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... solar idea , the modern Iroquois speak of the soul going upward and westward , till it comes out on the beauteous plains of heaven , with people and trees and things as on earth . In South America the Guarayos , representatives in some ...
... solar idea , the modern Iroquois speak of the soul going upward and westward , till it comes out on the beauteous plains of heaven , with people and trees and things as on earth . In South America the Guarayos , representatives in some ...
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... solar myth in such ideas , placing the land of Death in the land of Evening or of Night , and its entrance in the gates of Sunset . Barbaric poets of many a distant land must have gazed into the West to read the tale of Life and Death ...
... solar myth in such ideas , placing the land of Death in the land of Evening or of Night , and its entrance in the gates of Sunset . Barbaric poets of many a distant land must have gazed into the West to read the tale of Life and Death ...
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