1892. Herein is found the world's most illuminating penetration into every aspect of the inner, mystical, meaning behind ancient art forms and mythology. Over 75 chapters! If you have ever wondered what spiritual wisdom was purposely hidden in myth and art, this book will completely satisfy your unquenchable thirst for this knowledge. The ancient mystics understood the cosmic forces of the universe and recorded it in myth and art. This book reveals that knowledge. Extremely important! It's all here! With 348 illustrations. Scarce!
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1. As all the most interesting and important subjects of ancient art are taken from the religious or poetical mythology of the times, a general analysis of the principles and progress of that mythology will afford a more complete, as well as more concise, explanation of particular monuments than can be conveyed in separate dissertations annexed to each. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
symbolical composition, destroying attribute, generative attribute, subordinate emanations, accessory symbols, productive attribute, personified attributes, mystic system, symbolical language, male personification, symbolical figures, tutelar deity, ancient worship, olive wreath Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Select Specimens, Ancient Faiths, Hunterian Museum, Payne Knight, Supreme Being, Jacob Bryant, Alexander the Great, Asia Minor, Asiatic Researches, Mother Goddess, Indian Antiquities, Nature of the Gods, Roman Museum, Roman Questions, Hebrew Scriptures, New Testament, North America, Paphian Venus, Prometheus Bound, The Golden Ass, The Symbolical Lang New!
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1. As all the most interesting and important subjects of ancient art are taken from the religious or poetical mythology of the times, a general analysis of the principles and progress of that mythology will afford a more complete, as well as more concise, explanation of particular monuments than can be conveyed in separate dissertations annexed to each. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
symbolical composition, destroying attribute, generative attribute, subordinate emanations, accessory symbols, productive attribute, personified attributes, mystic system, symbolical language, male personification, symbolical figures, tutelar deity, ancient worship, olive wreath Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Select Specimens, Ancient Faiths, Hunterian Museum, Payne Knight, Supreme Being, Jacob Bryant, Alexander the Great, Asia Minor, Asiatic Researches, Mother Goddess, Indian Antiquities, Nature of the Gods, Roman Museum, Roman Questions, Hebrew Scriptures, New Testament, North America, Paphian Venus, Prometheus Bound, The Golden Ass, The Symbolical Lang New!
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- Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names (1868) by Thomas Inman on page 176 (1), page 176 (2), and page 270
- Ancient Art by Margaret Ellen Mayo in Front Matter, and page 176
- The Golden Ass (Dodo Press) by Lucius Apuleius on page 175, and page 305
- The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics) by Apuleius on page 175, and page 305
- The Theology of Plato by Proclus on page 39, and page 51
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- Apollonius of Tyana by Daniel M. Tredwell on 4 pages
- The Artificial Empire: The Indian Landscapes of William Hodges by G. H. R. Tillotson on page 133, and Back Matter
- Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art by Partha Mitter in Back Matter
- Evil Eye The Origins and Practices of Superstition by Frederick Thomas Elworthy on page 180
- Sex or Symbol?: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome by Catherine Johns on page 25
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