Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
The following sheets make no claim to present a _system_ of Hebrew Mythology. I have left out much that would necessarily be included in a system, and confined myself to a limited portion of what can be proved to be the matter of the Hebrew myths. Even within the actual domain...
If we limit the term _Myth_ to those old sentences which the ancients used in speaking of physical changes and phenomena, then the period with which we have to do in this chapte...
9. CHAPTER V.Battle and bloodshed, pursuit and suppression on the one side, love and union, glowing desire and coy evasion on the other, are the points of view from which the Myth regards th...
8. CHAPTER IV.The basis of all modern Comparative Mythology, and the principle from which we start on the present studies, is that the Myth is only the expression in language of the impressio...
10. CHAPTER VI.§ 1. In close connexion with that stage of development of the myth-producing faculty which is inaugurated by the beginnings of agricultural life, is found a natural consequence...
12. CHAPTER VIII.§ 1. We have seen a new feeling aroused in the breast of the Hebrews, and gaining such force and intensity as to fill their souls with a new thought and impart spiritual signifi...
11. CHAPTER VII.§ 1. The nomadic stage of the Hebrew tribes reached its end at the moment when a large part of them gained a land for themselves on the right bank of the river Yardên (Jordan);...
13. CHAPTER IX.§ 1. The most brilliant point in the history of Hebrew Religion is distinguished by an ingenious original idea, imported by the Hebrews into the development of religion—a single...
5. CHAPTER I.§ 1. At the very foundation of the investigations to which this book is devoted, we find ourselves in opposition to a wide-spread assumption: that in regard to Mythology nations...
6. CHAPTER II.§ 1. If it is now established that we are justified in speaking of a Hebrew Mythology, in the same sense as of the mythologies of Indians, Hellenes, Germans, &c., then the quest...
15. PART III. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, _New_Industrial Chemistry; a Manual for Manufacturers and for Colleges or Technical Schools. Being a Translation of Professors Stohmann and Engler’s German Edition of Payen’s ‘Préci...
4. CHAPTER X.The following sheets make no claim to present a _system_ of Hebrew Mythology. I have left out much that would necessarily be included in a system, and confined myself to a limit...
7. CHAPTER III.§ 1. The method of investigation is intended to discover—how the original myth is to be reached through the sources described in the preceding chapter, how the primitive germ of...
2. CHAPTER VII.1. CHAPTER VI.3. CHAPTER VIII.