In the Alexander Romance, a fictional account of Alexander the Great’s exploits, the biblical names Gog and Magog are reinvented as kings of so-called “Unclean Nations” deep within Asia who practice cannibalism—essentially the equivalent of the faraway Andropophagi imagined by Herodotus. Hundred...
“America has no counterpart of that strange mixture, thick as pea soup, the color of faded green, sticky and smutty against the human skin and the facade of buildings, with a taste something like stale beer, which serves much of the time as ...
as it seems to me (unreasonably, of course, because a solar eclipse could not take place at the time of the full moon, and it was at the season of the Paschal full moon that Christ died).
Though Barth is what some describe as ‘Neo- Orthodox’ [the strong Reformed teachers don’t appreciate Barth very much] yet he did bring the church back to the biblical doctrines of original sin and mans inability to ‘save himself’. Barth saw the reality of the WW1 and rejected the Ut...
These names are shown in Table 2; the majority are of biblical/Hebrew origin, and most of the surnames are patronymic derived (with Cohen and Levy/Levi referring to descent from the priest class or the tribe of Levi, respectively), though some ‘modern’ names popular in the wider ...
Pierre de Nolhac announced his discovery of a new manuscript of Petrarca’sDe viris illustribusthat differed significantly from manuscripts of the work then known in that it began with a long preface followed by twelvevitaeof biblical and mythological figures from Adam to Hercules [24,25]. Nolhac...
The Sumerian version of the history of our people as a tribe in this story predates the biblical account by several hundred years. Rather than opting for either extreme of complete dependence or no contact whatever, it is best to see the Genesis narratives as freely using the metaphors and sy...
11. Properly speaking, these ought to be called “Geological Races,” so as to be easily distinguished from their subsequent evolutions—theroot-races.The Occult doctrine has nothing to do with the Biblical division of Shem, Ham and Japhet, and admires, without accepting it, the latest Huxley...