Cory's Ancient Fragments of the Phoenician, Carthaginian, Babylonian, Egyptian and Other AuthorsReeves & Turner, 1876 - 214 pàgines |
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Cory's Ancient Fragments of the Phoenician, Carthaginian, Babylonian ... Isaac Preston Cory,Edward Richmond Hodges Visualització completa - 1876 |
Cory's Ancient Fragments of the Phoenician, Carthaginian, Babylonian ... Isaac Preston Cory Visualització completa - 1876 |
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ABYDENUS ALEXANDER POLYHISTOR Altogether Amenophis ancient animals Apion Apollodorus army Artæus Assyrian Astarte Babylon Babylonian Behistun Inscription Belus Berosus Book brother called Chaldeans Chron consecrated cuneiform Cyrus Damascus Darius death decipherment deity demigod descent Diodorus Siculus Diospolite DYNASTY earth empire Eratosthenes Esarhaddon Ethiopian Eusebius Evang father Flood fragments Genesis gods Greek heaven Hebrew Hecataeus Hercules Hermes Hiromus Hiram honour Horus inhabitants inscriptions island Jews Josephus Jupiter kingdom Kronus land language lived Manětho Medes Megasthenes Memphite mentioned months Moses mountains Moyses Nabonidus Nabuchodonosor Nanarus Nebuchadnezzar Oannes Orelli Ouranos Parsondēs perished Persian Philosophers Phoenician pillars Præp priest Ptolemy reigned 18 Rhamestes sacred sacrifice sailed Sanchoniathon sari Saturn says scholars Sennacherib sent Shepherds Sippara Sir Henry Rawlinson succeeded Syncellus Syria temple Theban Theban Egyptian kings Theban kings things Thoth took translation Tyre Tyrian whence words worship writing Xisuthrus
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Pàgina 62 - ... judged that the surface of the earth had appeared above the waters. He therefore made an opening in the vessel, and upon looking out found that it was stranded upon the side of some mountain; upon which he immediately quitted it with his wife, his daughter, and the pilot. Xisuthrus then paid his adoration to the earth: and having constructed an altar, offered sacrifices to the gods, and, with those who had come out of the vessel with him, disappeared.
Pàgina 126 - Syria; but that as they were in fear of the Assyrians, who had then the dominion over Asia, they built a city in that country which is now called Judea, and that large enough to contain this great number of men, and called it Jerusalem.
Pàgina 125 - Beon, for forty-four years; after him reigned another, called Apachnas, thirty-six years and seven months ; after him Apophis reigned sixty-one years, and then Janias fifty years and one month ; after all these reigned Assis forty-nine years and two months. And these six were the first rulers among them, who were all along making war with the Egyptians, and were very desirous gradually to destroy them to the very roots.
Pàgina 133 - Egyptians, treated the inhabitants with such barbarity, that those who witnessed their impieties believed that their joint sway was more execrable than that which the Shepherds had formerly exercised alone. For they not only set fire to the cities and villages, but committed every kind of sacrilege, and destroyed the images of the gods, and roasted and fed upon those sacred animals that were worshipped ; and having compelled the priests and prophets to kill and sacrifice them, they cast them naked...
Pàgina 56 - And he mentions that there were written accounts, preserved at Babylon with the greatest care, comprehending a period of above fifteen myriads of years...
Pàgina 21 - It was the custom among the ancients, in times of great calamity, in order to prevent the ruin of all, for the rulers of the city or nation to sacrifice to the avenging deities the most beloved of their children as the price of redemption: they who were devoted this purpose were offered mystically.
Pàgina 58 - They had one body but two heads: the one that of a man, the other of a woman: and likewise in their several organs both male and female. Other human figures were to be seen with the legs and horns of goats: some had horses...
Pàgina 18 - Ouranus, represented also the countenances of the gods Cronus, and Dagon, and the sacred characters of the elements. He contrived also for Cronus the ensign of his royal power, having four eyes in the parts before and in the parts behind, two of them closing as in sleep ; and upon the shoulders four wings, two in the act of flying, and two reposing as at rest.
Pàgina 54 - ... God. Upon the third day after the cessation of the rain Sisithrus sent out birds, by way of experiment, that he might judge whether the flood had subsided. But the birds passing over an unbounded sea, without finding any place of rest, returned again to Sisithrus. This he repeated with other birds. And when upon the third trial he succeeded, for the birds then returned with their feet stained with mud, the gods translated him from among men. With respect to the vessel, which yet remains in Armenia,...
Pàgina 61 - Xisuthrus sent out birds from the vessel, which, not finding any food, nor any place whereupon they might rest their feet, returned to him again. After an interval of some days he sent them forth a second time, and they now returned with their feet tinged with mud. He made...