They had no human form; they had not the human heart with its virtues and vices.
One of her feet, so says the German addition, was of human form, but the other like the foot of a water-bird up to the moment when she took it out of the brook.
Sif could therefore present herself now in human form, and again in the guise of the most beautiful swimming bird, the swan.
In this way the solar myths were elaborated and developed among the Aryan peoples and other races; their aspects became much more anthropomorphic and anthropopathic in proportion as the typical myths assumed a human form.
It must be noted, as my experiment has already proved, that in this first sketch of a phantasm in human form, a general, though indefinite type of the whole figure has spontaneously arisen, to which it is made to correspond.
The three elements appear in their proper sequence even in the amorphous phantasms which these types first shadow forth, and which are subsequently perfected and embodied in human form.
Angels appear in human form on special occasions, but usually they are invisible.
Sometimes an angel in human form spoke to me and, whilst he was speaking, I learnt what was said.
Given the desire to represent the character and individuality of the gods in human form, the next question we have to consider is how far their art, and especially the art of sculpture, was capable of giving effect to this desire.
But the ordinary Greek believed that the gods actually existed in human form, and even that their characters and passions and moods were like those of human beings.
The types borrowed by sculpture from foreign art are almost exclusively of human form.
These images are completely in human form, and, if male, are usually nude.
When a Goldi or a Gilyak shaman has cast out the devil that caused disease, an abode has to be provided for the homeless devil, and this is done by making a wooden idol in human form of which the ejected demon takes possession.
It is a happy day when a boa-constrictor deigns to visit the village which he formerly inhabited in human form.
Footnote 1} Inasmuch as each angel is a recipient of Divine order from the Lord, he is in a human form, perfect and beautiful in the measure of his reception (n.
When these were being separated from the angels I saw that the entire society appeared at first like a single indistinct body, then by degrees in a human form, but still indistinctly, and at last clearly as a man.
No angel in the heavens ever perceives the Divine as being in any other than a human form; and what is remarkable, those in the higher heavens are unable to think of the Divine in any other way.
I observed him attentively, and he had a human form in all completeness.
Incarnation of gods in human form temporary or permanent, i.
Guelele, king of Dahomey, represented partly in lion, partly in human form, iv.
At length this [human form] appeared in a flaming radiance, encompassed with small stars of the same colour.
There is no woman also on earth except one like me, a celestial of human form, to become their mother.
From the stomach of that fish came out a male and a female child of human form.
For this, of Jove’s superior might afraid, Neptune in human form conceal’d his aid.
When a child is born, a star descends and appears on earth in human form; after death it reascends and appears as a star in heaven" (433.
In one of the Mussulman stories of King Solomon, the Angel of Death descends in human form to take the soul of an aged man, whose wish was to die when he had met the mightiest prophet.
He is a personality such as were the heathen deities, who passed as general cosmic powers without prejudice to their appearing in human form.
But there are also statues of him in human form, save that his body is surmounted by a bird's head, with the tongue projected.
Like Selene amongst the Greeks, Mama Quilla, and her incarnation in human form, Mama Ogllo, were weavers.
To his surprise, when he removed the bridle, his wife stood before him in human form, wearing horseshoes on her hands and feet.
In the Faroe Isles the seals are said to appear once a year in human form, and in 1872 a writer to the journal of the Anthropological Institute tells the story of an Irish girl who was transformed into a seal.
I have never seen an Indian who believed the Supreme Being to have other than a human form, or to be of less than Almighty power and dimensions.
Carver says "the Indians appear to fashion to themselves corporeal representations of their Gods, and believe them to be of a human form.
Wennebea, one of the Indian chiefs seen by Long in his expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, thought the Great Spirit had a human form, and wore a white hat.
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