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Página 383 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 384 - If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Página 89 - ... signs, of which the Sun travels over one in each month. This inference shall become a demonstration by the comparison which we shall make of each of the labors with each one of the months, or with the signs and constellations which mark the division of time in the heavens during each of the months.
Página 232 - ... and decreases until he has finally arrived at the term of the career allotted to him by Nature to travel over. The God of Day, personified in the sacred allegories, had therefore to submit to the whole destiny of man : he had his cradle and his tomb. He was a child at the winter solstice, at the moment when the days begin to grow. Under this form they exposed his image in the ancient temples, in order to receive the homage of his worshippers; "because," says Macrobius, " the day being then the...
Página 87 - Nonnus designates the Sun-god worshipped by the Tynans. The titles of the King of Fire, or Lord of the World and of the Planets, of nourisher of mankind, of the God whose glowing orb revolves eternally around the Earth, and who while followed in his track by the Year, the daughter of Time and mother of the Twelve Months, draws along in regular succession the seasons, which renew and reproduce themselves, are so many traits of the Sun, that we should recognize them even if the poet had not given to...
Página 61 - C'est Jupiter arme' pour effrayer la terre. Un orage terrible aux yeux des Matelots, C'est Neptune en courroux qui gourmande les flots ; Echo n'est plus un son qui dans l'air retentisse, C'est une Nymphe en pleurs qui se plaint de Narcisse.
Página 89 - Sun to this point that the Greeks fixed the celebration of their Olympic feasts, the establishment of which was attributed to Hercules ; this was the origin of the most ancient era of the Greeks. We shall therefore fix the departure of the Sun Hercules there, in its annual route. The sign of the Lion, domicil of that star which furnishes it with its attributes, having formerly occupied that point, — his first labor shall be his victory over the Lion; and it is indeed the one which has been placed...
Página 252 - ... figure of a lamb," to which sometimes a vase was added, into which his blood flowed, and at other times couched at the foot of a cross. This custom subsisted up to the year 680, and until the pontificate of Agathon, during the reign of Constantine Pogonat. By the sixth synod of Constantinople (canon 82) it was ordained that instead of the ancient symbol, which had been the LAMB, the figure of a man fastened to a cross (such as the Pagans had adored), should be represented. All this was confirmed...
Página 87 - Cadiz, where they had also consecrated a temple to the Year and to the Month, which divided it into twelve parts, or in other words, to the twelve labors, or twelve victories, which conducted Hercules to immortality. It is under the name of Hercules Astrochyton, or of the God clad in a mantle of Stars, that the poet Nonnus designates this Sun-God, worshipped by the Tyrians.
Página 99 - I take the fable fromL'Origine de tous les Cultes, par Dupuis. Explanation of the Travels of Isis, or the Moon. The moon was associated, by the ancient Egyptians, with the sun in the general administration of the world, and it is she who represents the character of Isis in the sacred fable, known by the title of the history of Osiris and Isis. The first men who inhabited Egypt, says Diodorus of Sicily, struck with the grandeur of the heavens, and the admirable order of the universe, thought they...