| Diodorus (Siculus.) - 1814 - 686 páginas
...even cleaving to the soil whence they are produced. The first generation of men in Egypt, therefore, contemplating the beauty of the superior world, and...first of which they called Osiris, and the other Isis, botli names having proper etymologies; for Osiris, in the Greek language, signifies a thing with many... | |
| Diodorus (Siculus.) - 1814 - 686 páginas
...even cleaving to the soil whence they are produced. The first generation of men in Egypt, therefore, contemplating the beauty of the superior world, and...say, the sun and the moon, the first of which they callud Osiris, and the other Isis, both names having proper etymologies ; for Osiris, in the Greek... | |
| 1831 - 746 páginas
...down to us with such a latitude of opinion, who shall direct or fix our belief? Diodorus tells us that the first generation of men in Egypt, contemplating...Gods that were eternal, that is to say, the Sun and Moon, the 1831.] On the Early Annals of History, and M. Niebuhr. 415 first of which they called Osiris,... | |
| 1831 - 722 páginas
...down to us with such a latitude of opinion, who shall direct or fix our belief? Diodorus tells us that the first generation of men in Egypt, contemplating...order of the universe, supposed there were two chief Gnda that were eternal, t in! is ' -ml Moon, the 1831.] On the Early Annals of History, and M. Niebukr.... | |
| Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1841 - 486 páginas
...they are wrong in assigning to Osiris and Isis the characters of the Sun and Moon.t Diodorust says, " The first generation of men in Egypt, contemplating...astonishment the frame and order of the universe, imagined that there were two chief Gods, eternal and primary, the Sun and Moon, the first of whom they... | |
| sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1841 - 484 páginas
...they are wrong in assigning to Osiris and Isis the characters of the Sun and Moon.t Diodorust says, " The first generation of men in Egypt, contemplating...astonishment the frame and order of the universe, imagined that there were two chief Gods, eternal and primary, the Sun and Moon, the first of whom they... | |
| Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1841 - 482 páginas
...they are wrong in assigning to Osiris and Isis the characters of the Sun and Moon.t Diodorust says, " The first generation of men in Egypt, contemplating...astonishment the frame and order of the universe, imagined that there were two chief Gods, eternal and primary, the Sun and Moon, the first of whom they... | |
| sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1844 - 502 páginas
...On the subject of ancient mythology, Diodorus Siculus tells us, that " The first generation of men, contemplating the beauty of the superior world, and...astonishment the frame and order of the universe, judged there were two chief gods that were eternal, the sun and moon ; the first of which they called... | |
| John Gardner Wilkinson - 1847 - 548 páginas
...they are wrong in assigning to Osiris and Isis the characters of the Sun and Moon.t Diodorust says, " The first generation of men in Egypt, contemplating...astonishment the frame and order of the universe, imagined that there were two chief Gods, eternal and primary, the Sun and Moon, the first of whom they... | |
| Thomas S. Millington - 1873 - 320 páginas
...contemplating the glory of the world above, judged that there were two chief gods which were eternal — viz. the Sun and the Moon, the first of which they called Osiris, and the other Isis" (1. I, c. n). Plutarch says — " Horus, the son of Isis, was the first who sacrificed to the sun.... | |
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