The diluvian waters, he supposed, may have issued from the interior of the earth into which they had retired, when in the beginning the land was separated from the sea.
Those accumulations of gravel and loose materials, which, by some geologists, are said to have been produced by the action of a diluvian wave or deluge sweeping over the surface of the earth.
Mr. Rendell is an author as well as a preacher; he has dived into anti-diluvian history, and has tried to bring up mystic treasures from the post-diluvian period.
One of the earliest prophetic utterances directly bearing upon this subject is that of Enoch, the ante-diluvian prophet, unto whom the Lord revealed His purposes for all time.
The author of the treatise "On the Syrian Goddess" acquaints us with the diluvian tradition of the Arameans, directly derived from that of Chaldea, as it was narrated in the celebrated Sanctuary of Hierapolis, or Bambyce.
Six days and as many nights passed; the wind, the water-spout, and the diluvian rain were in all their strength.
The cause of these similarities between the diluvian traditions of the nations of the New World and that of the Bible remains therefore unexplained.
Throws overboard all the diluvian hypothesis; is vexed he ever lost time about such a complete humbug; says he lost two years by having also started a Wernerian.
On other days, diluvian storms broke in cascades over bare mountains, vomiting forth impetuous torrents, thundering in the valleys.
From between them, large drops of rain escaped, and then came more and more, to be followed at last by a diluvian downpour.
Think of the food necessary for the monsters of the ante-diluvian world!
Poebel is right in assuming that the Nippur copies of the Dynastic List begin with the Post-diluvian period.
We have here in fact recovered traditions of Post-diluvian kings.
We saw that the new Dynastic List took us back in the legendary sequence at least to the beginning of the Post-diluvian period.
Among the more recent in formation of fossil vegetables, are the bituminized woods; these are often buried to great depths by diluvian action, but are never found in perfect rock.
The catastrophes which produced the secondary strata and diluvian depositions could not have been local and partial phenomena, but must have extended over the whole, or a great part of the surface, of the globe.
And you speak of a diluvian formation, which I conclude you would identify with that belonging to the catastrophe described in the sacred writings, in which no human remains are found.
Six days and as many nights passed; the wind, the waterspout, and the diluvian rain were in all their strength.
Where Mortal never breathed I dare to sit Among the interior Alps, gigantic crew, 20 Who triumphed o'er diluvian power!
To any one who rightly grasps the bearing of the argument, the appositeness of this quotation will, I think, be rather strengthened than diminished by the evidence that the lines of Hesiod plainly refer to post-diluvian times (vide ch.
May not the eight stools be representative of the eight diluvian survivors.
But Sanchoniathon's statement, as we have seen, refers to the ante-diluvian period, in which it is borne out by Genesis vi.
A tradition of the constellations, a proof from tradition that they were so named in the ante-diluvian period.
If these are not traditions of fusions of races, they can only be diluvian traditions of the four couples who came out of the ark, which was the conjecture of the Spaniards in the case of Manco Capac.
This tree is situated in the midst of the universe, as the great Meru is placed in the middle of the earth; it is as firm and fixed as the Mandara mountain, and is immovable even by the force of the diluvian winds.
Sikhidhwaja then brought out all his sacred vessels and seats from his grotto, and collected them all in one spot; as the great ocean yielded up all her submerged treasures, after the diluvian flood was over.
Valmiki said:--As the sage was saying in this manner, the royal garrison tolled the trumpet of the departing day with beat of drum; which filled the sky with the loud roar of diluvian clouds.
According to the Hindus the universal destruction, takes place by the Violent concussion of all the elements, and by the diluvian floods also).
When the diluvian winds blow with full force, and shatter and scatter the huge mountains all around, it is then by minding the parvati mantra, that I remain as fixed as a rock.
In Phrygia the diluvian tradition was as natural as in Greece.
We also hear of a diluvian story among the Eulets or Kalmuks, where it seems to have come in with Buddhism.
We must, however, observe that Buddhist missionaries appear to have introduced the diluvian tradition of Judea into China.
We see, therefore, that Ixtlilxochitl was perfectly acquainted with the diluvian tradition, and if he does not enter into its details, he assigns it an important place in his series of ages.
The most essential feature of all traditions properly called diluvian is wanting here.
As to the theory of Don Jose Ramirez, about the symbolic pictures that have been interpreted as expressing the diluvian tradition, it is very ingenious and scientifically presented, but not so absolutely proved as M.
Therefore we must needs acknowledge the diluvian tradition to be really indigenous in Mexico and not an invention of missionaries.
However, such are the facts, and one might suppose himself transported to the extraordinary epochs of the diluvian period.
The air penetrated freely to the interior of the cone, and with it some flashes of lightning, and the loud noises of that storm, that a diluvian rain could not extinguish.
Then later, he seemed interested in my collection of prints illustrating the living world of the ante-diluvian period.
It would be otherwise if we could identify them with the anti-diluvian Atlantes, or find their diluvial remains.
This practice is supposed to have originated with the Cainites in the ante-diluvian world; but for high and prudential reasons, it was tolerated rather than approved under the Patriarchal dispensation and the Mosaic law.
In the race of Cham, however, which perpetuated so many traditions of the early Cainites, some fragments of this ante-diluvian science of evil were preserved; and traces of it may still be discerned among the worshippers of Siva in India.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diluvian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
