The primaeval victory of light and order over darkness and chaos, which seems to be repeated whenever the sun bursts through a storm-cloud, was similarly expressed in a mythical form.
Assur, in fact, became the divine impersonation of the power and constitution of Assyria; at the same time he was also 'the gracious' god and the primaeval firmament of heaven.
Let us see if we can get some glimpses of the primaeval inhabitants of the world, that lived and died while as yet there were no men and women having authority over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the air.
Hence these high gods were said to be born of Night or the primaeval darkness (Po).
Besides the high primaeval deities, born of the Night, the Society Islanders believed in a host of inferior divinities, many of whom were said to have been created by Taaroa, the supreme god.
Both classes of deities, the primaeval and the human, were credited with the power of making people ill.
The gods of Hawaii fell into two classes, according as they were believed to have been primaeval deities born of Night (Po), or the souls of men who had been deified after death.
We have no right to suppose he had plotted to avenge himself for the poet's refusal to collaborate with him on the theme ofprimaeval man.
He had begun a series of paintings on the theme of primaeval man.
Tischbein suggested a great poem on the theme of primaeval man--a volume of engravings after Tischbein, with running poetic commentary by Goethe.
What inferences, then, can be drawn from this skull as to the intellectual rank of primaeval man?
The coolness of the atmosphere was delicious, and the beauty of the jungle seemed to increase the further we penetrated these primaeval forests.
Harran and Ur were two of the gifts which passed to Canaan from the speakers of the primaeval language of Chaldæa.
In the fragments of Berosus it was Belus who smote asunder the primaeval darkness, and divided Omorka, and caused the creation of men and beasts; while according to the clay tablets of the flood, El was unwilling to save even Sisit.
The Titans in general symbolize the dark and mysterious powers of primaeval nature and mind; the younger gods, whatsoever enters more immediately within the circle of consciousness.
He had been taken in by a primaeval "sell" which the junior day-room invariably sprang on the new-comer.
Wrykyn, except on Market Day, was wont to be wrapped in a primaeval calm which very nearly brought tears to the strenuous eyes of the man from Manhattan.
So, turning, I ascended an elevated north-eastern extremity of Mount Abundance, and from it beheld the finest country I had ever seen in a primaeval state.
An Australian morning is always charming,--amid these scenes of primaeval nature it seemed exquisitely so.
The work is very profusely illustrated; and is one of the best contributions which have recently been made to the history of our primaeval antiquities.
The phenomenon of the submerged forest is a very general one, being traced along almost all the sea-coasts of Western Europe, where shelving shores and sheltered bays favour the preservation of patches of this primaeval forest.
Flat, swampy tracts of shrub and spruce alternated with dark woods, where gigantic firs, weird pines, and primaeval oaks raised their branches to the sky.
How the spirit soars at the trill of a blackbird beneath the leafy roof of mighty primaeval oaks!
She is the primaeval mother who works, bears children, and gives them nourishment.
A sombre, melancholy, primaeval maze was what he had expected, and there lay before him a soft, luxuriant, and cultivated country.
May some few outlandish nooks and corners of Europe be left as God made them, where primaeval conditions may yet survive, and wild nature reign in uncontaminated glory--at least during our time.
The primaeval throes, the grand stupendous imagery of Nature should be held in more reverence.
Here is developed garden-craft, and development almost invariably means multiplicity of forms and a marked departure from primaeval simplicity.
Nor does this primaeval excess of its aboriginal beings strike us more forcibly than does the utter quiescence (if I may so express it) which has been going on amongst them since the remote era of their birth.
Surely they tell us plainly of what we have already so often insisted upon,--namely, the redundancy of this once continuous land with specific foci of its own, and the sluggish or sedentary nature of those primaeval radiating forms.
We lived on terms of primaeval intimacy with our cow, for if we lay down on our lawn she did not scruple to take a sniff at the book we were reading, but then she gave us her own sweet breath in return.
The primaeval forest still occupies a considerable portion of the ground, and hangs in solemn grandeur from the cliffs; but it is broken by frequent settlements, where we were cheered by the sight of herds and flocks.
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