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... father with the rest of his children , and again vomited forth . The eagle soaring to the sun is the bird of Jupiter ; while the earthly , colour - reflecting peacock is the attendant of Juno . In the interior of the earth , the hidden ...
... father with the rest of his children , and again vomited forth . The eagle soaring to the sun is the bird of Jupiter ; while the earthly , colour - reflecting peacock is the attendant of Juno . In the interior of the earth , the hidden ...
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... father of 3000 streams and as many small seas . According to Homer , Oceanos is the Great , the earth - encompassing world - stream . He is the original fountain of all that is , the origin even of the gods - sev yévɛoɩç ( Il . xiv ...
... father of 3000 streams and as many small seas . According to Homer , Oceanos is the Great , the earth - encompassing world - stream . He is the original fountain of all that is , the origin even of the gods - sev yévɛoɩç ( Il . xiv ...
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... father Apollo , the title of physician , healer . Others give Mercury as the father of Esculapius ( Cicero de nat . deor . c . 22. ) Of just as much importance to us is the god Mercury , -Hermes . He is a son of Jupiter and the nymph ...
... father Apollo , the title of physician , healer . Others give Mercury as the father of Esculapius ( Cicero de nat . deor . c . 22. ) Of just as much importance to us is the god Mercury , -Hermes . He is a son of Jupiter and the nymph ...
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... father of the Cabiri , and Poseidon with Hercules and Jupiter , united under the name of the greater gods . Thus we have seen that these · symbolical divinities were originally but representations of natural appearances WISHING - ROD ...
... father of the Cabiri , and Poseidon with Hercules and Jupiter , united under the name of the greater gods . Thus we have seen that these · symbolical divinities were originally but representations of natural appearances WISHING - ROD ...
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... father Ætes . Strange and terrible as is her aid in the combat between Jason and the Hydra , she was not in the older times by any means the terrible and necromantic child murderess , ( Wachsmuth , a . a . O. ) According to later ...
... father Ætes . Strange and terrible as is her aid in the combat between Jason and the Hydra , she was not in the older times by any means the terrible and necromantic child murderess , ( Wachsmuth , a . a . O. ) According to later ...
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