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... cause may be found in the destruction and total loss of all the written memorials of the secret knowledge of the remotest antiquity , so that , besides the votive tables and certain scattered relics of signs and hieroglyphics , nothing ...
... cause may be found in the destruction and total loss of all the written memorials of the secret knowledge of the remotest antiquity , so that , besides the votive tables and certain scattered relics of signs and hieroglyphics , nothing ...
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... causes it is not to be wondered that all the remains of ancient natural science were destroyed with the temples and their libraries . Natural philosophy , poetry , and religion , from their very nature were closely united in the ...
... causes it is not to be wondered that all the remains of ancient natural science were destroyed with the temples and their libraries . Natural philosophy , poetry , and religion , from their very nature were closely united in the ...
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... caused him to be styled the many - placed , Toλíтрооs ; the crafty , dóλios , the deceiver ; the god and captain of thieves . When Hermes , after many stratagems and much resistance , was compelled to return the cattle to Apollo , he ...
... caused him to be styled the many - placed , Toλíтрооs ; the crafty , dóλios , the deceiver ; the god and captain of thieves . When Hermes , after many stratagems and much resistance , was compelled to return the cattle to Apollo , he ...
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... arts- From the same cause , Athena comes much into connection with Prometheus , as she who counselled him to steal the fire from heaven . VOL . II . E According to Orphic hymns , Athene is the personified productive MINERVA . 49.
... arts- From the same cause , Athena comes much into connection with Prometheus , as she who counselled him to steal the fire from heaven . VOL . II . E According to Orphic hymns , Athene is the personified productive MINERVA . 49.
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... causes . Originally , a daughter of heaven and the wife of time - Saturn - she has her name , according to Strabo and Suidas , from a mountain in Phrygia , where a sanctuary was first erected to her ( or ἀπὸ τοῦ κυβισᾶν ) because her ...
... causes . Originally , a daughter of heaven and the wife of time - Saturn - she has her name , according to Strabo and Suidas , from a mountain in Phrygia , where a sanctuary was first erected to her ( or ἀπὸ τοῦ κυβισᾶν ) because her ...
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