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Bible Folk-Lore; A Study in Comparative Mythology

James Edwin Thorold Rogers

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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE TWELVE TRIBES. The reader has perhaps by this time begun to see that very close resemblances exist between the legends of Genesis and the myths of Chaldea, Egypt, and India. The present chapter brings yet more fully before us the connection between these various systems, and the astronomical character of the twelve descendants of that great triad which represents the seasons of the year. The Accadians do not appear to have had any complete astronomical hierarchy in their pantheon. Local gods, representing the sun, or pairs symbolising the older nature worship, existed in various great cities of which they were the special patrons, and each tribe worshipped its own god (like the modern Indian sects) without denying the existence of others. It was only when Chaldea and Babylon had been united by Sargon I., that any attempt seems to have been made to arrange in one system the whole pantheon, and to collect the classical works?religious, liturgic, and astronomical?which represented the philosophy and faith of Babylonia.1 Thus, by about 2OOO B.C., the various Accadian sun-gods were assigned each to one of the seven planets, and made subordinate to the great national triad; and this system mainly differed from the Assyrian in the omission of the original pair of love-godsAsshur and Sheruya, whom the Assyrians at their capital Asshur regarded as the parents of all creation.1 1 Lenormant's Origines, p. 264. The seven planets were also connected with the solar year of twelve months.2 The sun and moon ruled a month each; to the other five were assigned two months a piece; and thus the sacred seven were reconciled with the twelve zodiacal signs. It is this system which we must keep in view in examining the twelve sons of the triad, who, on the mythical ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bible Folk-Lore; A Study in Comparative Mythology. To get started finding Bible Folk-Lore; A Study in Comparative Mythology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 114

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0217691633

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE TWELVE TRIBES. The reader has perhaps by this time begun to see that very close resemblances exist between the legends of Genesis and the myths of Chaldea, Egypt, and India. The present chapter brings yet more fully before us the connection between these various systems, and the astronomical character of the twelve descendants of that great triad which represents the seasons of the year. The Accadians do not appear to have had any complete astronomical hierarchy in their pantheon. Local gods, representing the sun, or pairs symbolising the older nature worship, existed in various great cities of which they were the special patrons, and each tribe worshipped its own god (like the modern Indian sects) without denying the existence of others. It was only when Chaldea and Babylon had been united by Sargon I., that any attempt seems to have been made to arrange in one system the whole pantheon, and to collect the classical works?religious, liturgic, and astronomical?which represented the philosophy and faith of Babylonia.1 Thus, by about 2OOO B.C., the various Accadian sun-gods were assigned each to one of the seven planets, and made subordinate to the great national triad; and this system mainly differed from the Assyrian in the omission of the original pair of love-godsAsshur and Sheruya, whom the Assyrians at their capital Asshur regarded as the parents of all creation.1 1 Lenormant's Origines, p. 264. The seven planets were also connected with the solar year of twelve months.2 The sun and moon ruled a month each; to the other five were assigned two months a piece; and thus the sacred seven were reconciled with the twelve zodiacal signs. It is this system which we must keep in view in examining the twelve sons of the triad, who, on the mythical ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bible Folk-Lore; A Study in Comparative Mythology. To get started finding Bible Folk-Lore; A Study in Comparative Mythology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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