The naming of the children after the days of the week, the counting of them by the Mother, and the artifice of the eldest Daughter, in the London version, who gets counted twice, are archaic points.
Subiya is one of the most archaic of Bantu languages, more so than Tonga.
Ba- or Aba-, is, in the most archaic Bantu speech (the languages of Mt.
The archaic Makonde or Mabiha of the lower Ruvuma, and the coast between Lindi and Ibo; this might conceivably be attached to the Swahili branch.
The sixteen original prefixes of the Bantu languages are given below in the most archaic forms to be found at the present day.
Ci-bodzo of the Zambezi delta is also anarchaic type of great interest.
Yet in the mostarchaic Bantu dialects to the north of the Victoria Nyanza it is nowhere found in the form of Pa-.
In archaic Greek work it has already disappeared in the Doric order, but in the Ionic and Corinthian orders it is more or less richly moulded, the most elaborate examples being those found in the temple of Apollo at Branchidae in Milesia.
Illustration] It will be seen by a glance at this map that the areas in which are spoken Bantu languages of typical structure and archaic form are somewhat widely spread.
Naturally enough, the pages of Raleigh seem archaic to the modern reader, yet passages are not wanting which show the shrewd practical insight of the courtier and statesman.
Cambridge, 1893; Egypt in the Neolithic and Archaic Periods.
Its essential attitude of mind appears peculiarly archaic in our day, evidencing the utterly changed point of view from which history is regarded in our generation.
The writing is in a beautifully clear archaic script often used for royal inscriptions, even after the cursive writing came into use.
Temples and statues at Abu Simbel--on the knee of one of the statues, some Greek mercenaries of Psamthek I cut an inscription in archaic Greek.
The known connection between these monuments and the archaic forms of Greek art renders this part of the inquiry both important and interesting.
In the Archaic period independent kings ruled in the Delta region (Kings of the Red Crown) and in Upper Egypt (Kings of the White Crown).
All this strengthens materially the claim heretofore made, that in mind, and especially in religious culture, the Zuñi is almost as strictly archaic as in the days ere his land was discovered.
Most men who write thus of another time try to give the effect of actuality by an excessive use of archaic forms.
There is little of story, little of action, little consideration of the deeper passions and motives of life: there is rather an artless presentation of the archaic provincial types and surroundings that he had known in his boyhood.
Only one who has tried to write inarchaic English without committing anachronisms can realize its tremendous difficulty.
And yet, archaic in word and form as her compositions are, there is something very modern in her way of thought and in her attitude toward nature.
Next is the absolute purity, with the sometimes archaic quality, of the English.
But while the archaic form of her speech and writings is an evidence of her genuineness, and she so considers it, she does not approve of its analysis as a philological amusement.
Man's young will and reason need some reinforcement, some helping power, if they are to conquer and control his archaic impulsive life.
Further, using perpetually as it does and must symbols of the most archaic sort, directly appealing to the latent primitive in each of us, it offers us a perpetual temptation to fall back into something below our best possible.
Different levels of mind will find here magic, theology, deep mystery, the commemoration under archaic symbols of an event.
If the social organisation of the Arunta were peculiarly primitive, if their beliefs and ceremonials were of the most archaic type, there might be some ground for Mr. Spencer's opinion.
In Gippsland, and in a section round Melbourne, there were "anomalous" arrangements which need not now detain us; the archaic systems tended to die out altogether.
But Arunta society is, in many points, so obviously highly organised, and so confessedly advanced, that I am quite unable to accept this tribe as an example of the most archaic state of affairs extant.
The names of the Australian matrimonial classes appear to be tabued or archaic names of animals and other objects, as we have shown that some phratry names also are.
It is an archaic word of the same significance, used only in this connection with the tabued name-giving object of the kin.
He accepts Pirrauru as "group marriage," and holds that the Arunta retain the mostarchaic form of totemism now known to exist.
Last of all came the talk with his curate whom, despite his bunny hood and his archaic theological tenets, Brenton had grown to love.
It is not unreasonable therefore to suppose that in Western Asia the superiority of the Mother Goddess to the Father God originated in the same archaicsystem of mother-kin.
It seems likely that this was in turn indebted to a still more archaic version, which probably recounted the earliest type of the myth.
As a matter of fact the Nimrod legend seems to be very much more archaic than any piece of tradition connected with Merodach, who indeed is a god of no very great antiquity.
But it is also true that non-Christian bodies of archaic law entail penal consequences on certain classes of acts and on certain classes of omissions, as being violations of divine prescriptions and commands.
The figures, the theophany itself, are not necessarily archaic, but are more probably moulded onarchaic models.
We see in this, too, the reason of Joel’s archaic style, both of conception and expression: that likeness of his to early prophets which has led so many to place him between Elijah and Amos.
There are the usual marks of poetic diction in it—elliptic phrases, the frequent absence of the definite article, archaic forms and an order of the syntax different from that which obtains in prose.
It is due also in large measure to the fact that courts of justice are growing reluctant to administer such archaic laws.
The housekeeper clings to her archaic kitchen, firmly believing that if she gave it up, tried to replace it by any form of co-operative living, the pillars of society would crumble and the home pass out of existence.
They are correct and melodious, and contain few of those archaic or experimental eccentricities of diction which we shall find abounding a little later in Keats's work.
What he says of Chatterton's words and idioms seems paradoxical enough, as applied to the archaic jargon concocted by the Bristol boy out of Kersey's Dictionary[54].
Mathew, and the use of the archaic 'teen' in the stanzas professedly Spenserian.
The vestals, to whose indiscretions no one had paid much attention, learned the statutes of an archaic law, and were buried alive.
The sculpture is archaic in type,--an imitation of Greek imitations of still earlier models.
Framing the panels, while also indicating the separation in time of their stories, stand archaic figures of Hermes, such as the ancients employed to mark distances on the roads.
In the minds of primitive people all which is archaic is sacred and all which is novel is questionable.
Such is the case with all archaic usages which are perpetuated on account of their antiquity, although they are not accordant with modern standards.
In all these cases it is evident that the mores extend their protection over archaic and sacred things, and preserve them instead of forbidding them.
Therefore religion holds and consecrates whatever is archaic and traditional.
Our children have to be taught that "that is in the Bible," that is, they have to learn the conventionalization by which the archaic forms are covered.
In the English translation of the Bible words and phrases are used which are archaic and now under taboo in everyday life.
All people were accustomed to the phallus as the archaic symbol of the servants of Dionysus.
The mannerisms of his style, if they show that he was not altogether emancipated from archaic rudeness, afford evidence also of the prolific fertility of his genius.
It largely employs, especially in the poems which express his coarser feelings, common, often archaic and provincial words, forms, and idioms.
The workmanship was archaic, older than any Aztec art Kirby knew, older than Toltec, older far, he ventured to guess, than even earliest archaic Mayan carvings.
It was this archaic pile of stone, he finally decided, which was causing his depression.
Chapter Nine ~~ The Conservation of Archaic Traits The institution of a leisure class has an effect not only upon social structure but also upon the individual character of the members of society.
Those individuals who in spiritual development eventually reach man's estate, therefore, ordinarily pass through a temporary archaic phase corresponding to the permanent spiritual level of the fighting and sporting men.
The professed grounds on which it has been sought, as far as might be, to maintain the received standards and methods of culture intact are likewise characteristic of the archaic temperament and of the leisure-class theory of life.
A loyal attachment to the person of an anthropomorphic divinity endowed with such an archaic human nature implies the like archaic propensities in the devotee.
The man of the hereditary present is slightly archaic as judged for the purposes of the latest exigencies of associated life.
The early ascendency of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments.
In these communities thearchaic ideal is similarly approached as regards the esteem accorded to manners as a fact of intrinsic worth.
It may also be noted that the devout edifices are invariably of an archaic cast in their structure and fittings.
So the archaicidiom of the English language is spoken of as "classic" English.
Yet I should like to know if he would refuse as useless the treasures of King Priam because made of gold that belongs to the archaic times--what gold does not?
The triumphal arches present the same proportions as the temple I have just described, which is by no means the earliest archaic structure.
When the curtain first rises upon archaic times, we find those far-off Pharaohs struggling with the Libyans who had penetrated into the Delta from Tripoli and elsewhere.
But in Egypt the subjects of archaic Pharaohs, it seems certain, were exactly similar to those of the modern Khedives, and new blood has never been introduced into the nation to an appreciable extent, not even by the Arabs.
