Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, Volume 17

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De Gruyter., 1920
 

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Pagina 12 - Ruman, who was dwelling in Egypt, so that he came to the country of Iran with severe cruelty and war and devastation ; he also slew the ruler of Iran, and destroyed the metropolis and empire.
Pagina 83 - ... significantly, ignored in the Middle Persian writings. The theory has been advanced that Artaxerxes I. Longimanus is mentioned in the Pahlavi texts under the name of 'Ardashir the Kayan, whom they call Vohuman, son of Spend-dad,' who, according to Bahman Ya&t, ii. 17, ' separates the demons from men, scatters them about, and makes the religion current in the whole world.
Pagina 91 - The Hovas of Madagascar present the first sheaves of the new grain to the sovereign. The sheaves are carried in procession to the palace from time to time as the grain ripens. So in Burma, when the pangati fruits ripen, some of them used to be taken to the king's palace that he might eat of them: no one might partake of them before the king...
Pagina 142 - Galliarum admiratio. nihil habent Druidae — ita suos appellant magos — visco et arbore, in qua gignatur, si modo sit robur, sacratius. iam per se roborum eligunt lucos nee ulla sacra sine earum fronde conficiunt, ut inde appellati quoque interpretatione Graeca possint Druidae videri. enimvero quidquid adgnascatur illis e caelo missum putant signumque esse electae ab ipso deo arboris.
Pagina 44 - At tibi prima, puer, nullo munuscula cultu errantis hederas passim cum baccare tellus mixtaque ridenti colocasia fundet acantho. 20 ipsae lacte domum referent distenta capellae ubera, nee magnos metuent armenta leones; ipsa tibi blandos fundent cunabula flores, occidet et serpens, et fallax herba veneni occidet; Assyrium vulgo nascetur amomum.
Pagina 100 - Opfer der Sonne, dem Mond, der Erde, dem Feuer, dem Wasser und den Winden...
Pagina 14 - Plato machagistiam esse uerbo mystico docet, diuinorum incorruptissimum cultum, cuius scientiae saeculis priscis multa ex Chaldaeorum. arcanis Bactrianus addidit Zoroastres, deinde Hystaspes rex prudentissimus Darei pater.
Pagina 6 - Wenn er es wollte, könnte der Heilige seine Kraft auf den König der Berge, den Himavant richten, daß er Gold würde, und der Berg würde Gold sein.
Pagina 166 - Mashyoi, then those of the rest of mankind; in the fifty-seven years of Soshyans they prepare all the dead, and all men stand up; whoever is righteous and whoever is wicked, every human creature, they rouse up from the spot where its life departs.

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