The tradition brought to {208} light by archaeology forms an episode in an epic which narrates the exploits of Gilgamesh and occupies the eleventh of the twelve parts into which the epic is divided.
It is true of these chapters, as of other parts of the record, that "the only care of the prophetic tradition is to bring out clearly the religious origin of humanity.
Moreover, an inspired book does not lose its inspiration because it is discovered that the human agent inspired is one different from the man to whom tradition has been accustomed to assign the book.
The tradition of its founding lies hidden in the mists of heroic legend, and is the more momentous because it is so impressively vague.
Popular tradition declares that the crusaders brought him home with them from the Indies!
The tradition hints that Noah had been drinking; at any rate, their absence was not noticed, and the Ark went on without them the next day.
And I was still more interested when, later, the Vidame informed me that it is the Provençal custom at the Christmas festival for the old thus to instruct the young and so to keep familytradition alive.
It is interesting to note that this tradition does very little violence to the individual facts of the case, and yet rearranges them in such a fashion that they are at sixes and sevens with the truth as a whole.
The humanistic tradition of Charlemagne has died out, and the intellectual ideal is represented by Vincent of Beauvais and the Speculum Historiale.
It is in no small measure due to him that the tradition of Horace's text is so comparatively good.
He would be lending Steve the same kind of emotional support he had received from his own Ordeal sponsor, whenever and wherever tradition allowed it.
He swore briefly at the traditionthat demanded a candidate spend the first night where he was dropped off, but it was a minor inconvenience, and he'd be travelling the next day anyway.
While it was the Ka'ruchaya's choice, tradition suggested that the oldest male present perform that final service for the dead.
He'd often wondered why he shouldn't be, but tradition insisted his Ka'ruchaya was wiser than he in such matters.
No one knew what they exactly were, for the old woman had outlived her contemporaries, and the tradition was imperfect, but she had been handed down to the next generation as one to be avoided as a basilisk.
Whether the observance of this rite in Devonshire is of Roman date, or whether it goes farther back, to a remoter tradition of preclassical times, it is difficult to say.
Locally this phenomenon is called the "earthquake," and the popular tradition of the island ascribes its appearance to the great earthquake at Lisbon in 1755; but it is certainly older than that date.
Tradition has it that Alfred held this camp against the Danes, not that he built it, for even in his day its foundation had become legendary and was ascribed to "men of old time.
Certainly the Saxon Chronicle records contests bloody and pitiless enough, and tradition lingers still in many places where history has no record.
Like the Welsh, they have the devouttradition that they never were conquered, but yielded to circumstances when these became too strong for them.
Algeciras had other claims which it urged day after day more winningly upon us as the last place where we should feel the charm of Spain unbroken in the tradition which reaches from modern fact far back into antique fable.
Their tradition is our inheritance; their achievement is our gain.
If their traditions belong to us, so also ourtradition belongs to them.
Every morning until his death I watched anxiously for the report of his condition; for something in me responded to that singular repetition, and, though I never heard any tradition concerning it, undoubtedly there is one.
He was according to tradition a man of colossal size, who ruled Cumberland before Saxon times, when "there were giants in the land," and no giant killer had appeared.
Perhaps the earliest mention of this tradition may be found in the writings of Fray Toribio de Paredes, surnamed Motolinia.
These notions even assume the form of tradition in the tale of the Seven Caves,[1] whence the Mexicans and the Tezcucans, as well as the Tlaxcaltecans, are said to have emigrated to Mexico.
The sacred embers disappeared, tradition being, according to the Hon.
These young bloods, by the way, began to mutter now of the desirability of banding together to beard old Tasman in his den, and rid themselves of the shadow and tradition of tyranny, as well as its actuality.
Tasman was feared on that range rather as a tradition than as a killer; Lupus was feared and obeyed as an actual, living ruler.
Popular tradition says, not very probably, that Grainger and his wife were booted (that is, tortured with the engine called the boots).
The tradition is probably false, but it made its impression on Hawthorne, who continues, "I could wish that the grave might be opened; for I would fain know whether either of the skeleton soldiers has the mark of an axe in his skull.
Hotel construction has quite kept pace with the times, but hotel location is a tradition of the dark ages, when to catch patrons it was necessary to get in their way.
Does unwritten history or traditiontell us anything of the people to whose invention we owe them?
The Phœnicians are said by tradition to have invented the manufacture of glass.
Such a discovery as we have imagined would suggest the possibility that some remote channel of tradition had fathered an old myth upon Harold and William.
To understand the use of words in an agglutinative language, therefore, a great deal less of tradition and memory would be required than are wanted to preserve an inflected language.
Yet the tradition was remembered; for, as I might say it, we lived very close about the place; and Memory had no room whereby she might escape.
Tradition says, that the Figget Whins, formerly a forest, afforded shelter and a place of rendezvous to Sir William Wallace and his myrmidons, when they were preparing to attack Berwick.
There is a tradition among the common people, that Sir William Wallace hid himself in this hole of the rock, when he absconded for some time.
Tradition tells that the house where Wallace resided was at the head of the Castlegate, opposite the church, where a new house has lately been erected.
He introduces it in language calculated to inspire doubt into the mind of the reader; observing that “the populartradition is, that his friend Sir John Menteth betrayed him to the English.
The tradition at Biggar is, that it was in the old church there that Wallace was chosen Guardian of Scotland.
They say that they have the tradition that this Inca was of gentle presence, grave, and of imposing mien.
In spite of the loss of Britain, and cut off by that loss from direct succor, Ireland preserved the tradition of civilization.
There istradition of something of the sort at Pevensey (the old port of Anderida in Sussex) and for some time a forgery lent the same distinction to Wroxeter under the Wrekin.
It is explicable as a challenge to the tradition of Europe.
The Catholic alone is in possession of the tradition of Europe: he alone can see and judge in this matter.
The real point was that one and only one of the old Roman provinces with their tradition of civilization, letters, persuasive power, multiple soul--one and only one went over to the barbaric enemy and gave that enemy its aid.
All this tallies with the old and distorted legends and traditions, as it does with the direct story of Gildas, and also with whatever of real history may survive in the careful compilation of legend and tradition made by the Venerable Bede.
To say that Britain lost hold of tradition in the sixteenth century because Britain is "Teutonic," is to talk nonsense.
The deeds of the Canadians, the Australians, the New Zealanders, have added a new and imperishable tradition to British history.
Tradition and moral count even more afloat than ashore; we possess both.
This was the practice in Chios and Tenedos;(101) and at Potniae in Boeotia the tradition ran that it had been formerly the custom to sacrifice to the goat-smiting Dionysus a child, for whom a goat was afterwards substituted.
Whether the custom and the tradition are connected with the idea of the fox as an embodiment of the corn-spirit is doubtful.
M220) In the light of the foregoing discussion the Egyptian tradition of Busiris admits of a consistent and fairly probable explanation.
Have we not in this tradition a reminiscence of a custom of sacrificing the king's son in place of the father?
Tradition ran that once on a time the whole world was desolated by a famine, and that to remedy the evil the Pythian oracle bade the Athenians offer the sacrifice of the Proerosia on behalf of all men.
When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a sentiment of his infancy, a prayer of his youth, he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institutions.
When we have broken our god of tradition and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.
Wailing, or Wayland Wood, a large cover near Walton in Norfolk is the place which tradition assigns to the tragedy, but the people of Wood Dalling also claim the honour for their village.
Robert Bikez tells us that he learned his story from an abbot, and that 'noble ecclesiast' stood but one further back in a line of tradition which curiosity will never follow to its source.
He says that tradition points out the "green wood" of the ballad in the ancient forest of Dundaff in Stirlingshire.
These tribes have the same tradition in regard to the flood, that I heard among the Algonquins at the gates of Montreal, some trifling incidents excepted.
I have had every opportunity of investigating the question, and able interpreters wherever I wintered; but I never could learn that any such tradition existed.
It is affirmed by some writers that the Indians have a tradition among them of the migration of their progenitors from east to west.
The diminished economic vitality of England must be partly traced to her tradition of political and social subserviency, which serves to rob both the ordinary and the exceptional Englishmen of energy and efficiency.
The integrity and energy of American intellectual life has been impaired for generations by the tradition of national irresponsibility.
A national tradition has been established which prevents individuals from desiring freedom; and if they should desire and obtain it, they are prevented from using it.
The several contracting states must possess permanent and genuinely national political organizations; and no such organization is possible as long as the tradition and habit of revolution persists.
But the consequence of the Bismarckian tradition of bullying and browbeating one's opponents has been that of intensifying the opposition to the national policy and of compromising its success.
They exist wherever the individuals constituting a community, as at present in the South, are more divided by social or class ambitions and prejudices than they are united by a tradition of common action and mutual loyalty.
The difficulty raised by European political and economic development hangs chiefly on a necessary loyalty to a national tradition and organization which blocks the advance of democracy.
They uprooted a national institution which had existed, with but one brief interruption, for more than forty years; and they entirely altered the tradition of appointment in the American civil service.
He had no knowledge of the school--its tradition or heritage.
Our criminal tradition is not theft--among ourselves, at least," said little Hartopp.
But the tradition of the school is that the prefects can't move in any matter affecting the whole school without the Head's direct order.
The seniors--for the school had no tradition of deference to prefects outside compulsory games--told them succinctly to go about their business.
