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Page 241
... myth , actual warfare takes place as a result of the separation . Over against the primordial union of the world parents , there is the desire for knowledge and a different orienta- tion in space . After the separation , lesser deities ...
... myth , actual warfare takes place as a result of the separation . Over against the primordial union of the world parents , there is the desire for knowledge and a different orienta- tion in space . After the separation , lesser deities ...
Page 242
... myth , one of the twins from the cosmic egg must be sacrificed to bring about a habitable world . In the Norse Prose Edda , the cosmos is formed from the body of the dismembered great Ymir , and , in the Indian Rgveda , the cosmos is a ...
... myth , one of the twins from the cosmic egg must be sacrificed to bring about a habitable world . In the Norse Prose Edda , the cosmos is formed from the body of the dismembered great Ymir , and , in the Indian Rgveda , the cosmos is a ...
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... myth of Yoskeha and Tawiskaron — a myth curiously reminiscent of cer- tain aspects of the Iranian Zurvanite mythology . Other ethnological polarities , or pairs of opposites ( east- ern - western , celestial - terrestrial , solar ...
... myth of Yoskeha and Tawiskaron — a myth curiously reminiscent of cer- tain aspects of the Iranian Zurvanite mythology . Other ethnological polarities , or pairs of opposites ( east- ern - western , celestial - terrestrial , solar ...
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