In the mythologic tales of the Iroquois, the child appears frequently as. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Oh and another thing, the name Gandalf is from a Norwegian mythologic tale. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Would Gandalf stay the course?] Reference
Ultimately Tylor distinguishes what he calls “two principles of mythologic science.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Death evidently had an important significance in the mythologic conceptions of the Mayas. From Wordnik.com. [Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1] Reference
The serpent appears in the mythologic conceptions of the Mayas chiefly as the symbol of water and of time. From Wordnik.com. [Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1] Reference
Essentially the same deities and the same mythologic ideas are, without question, to be found in all the manuscripts. From Wordnik.com. [Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1] Reference
Riddle-making is not left alone by the purveyors of nursery yarns, though belonging to the mythologic state of thought. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
So, by comparing the mythologic legends of these later races, we may, with strictest accuracy, determine what was the parent stem. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The representations on the reliefs from the Maya region, it is true, give evidence of dealing with kindred mythologic conceptions. From Wordnik.com. [Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1] Reference
Together with these are a number of animal figures, some with human bodies, dress and armor, which likewise have a mythologic significance. From Wordnik.com. [Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1] Reference
Such are the thaumaturgics of mythologic philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56] Reference
Sikyatki serpents with modern mythologic representatives. From Wordnik.com. [Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744] Reference
You may call this mythologic or scientific, as you please. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56] Reference
The mythologic gods are no longer worth talking about for serious men. From Wordnik.com. [The Chief End of Man] Reference
Here the word is used to indicate a period of remote mythologic antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula] Reference
There are two grand stages of philosophy -- the mythologic and scientific. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56] Reference
Fetichism, then, is a religious means, not a philosophic or mythologic state. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56] Reference
The mythologic significance of the different colors is well shown in this formula. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference
It seldom occurs in the formulas and its mythologic significance is as yet undetermined. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference
Zeus is not always the questionable son of Cronus, nor the gods always the mythologic Olympians. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
According to Goldzhier, long locks of hair and a long beard are mythologic attributes of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The Italian power of abstraction into one mythologic personage -- Holbein's death is only literal. From Wordnik.com. [Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving] Reference
Perhaps the most common figures on modern food bowls is the head of a mythologic being, the Corn-maid. From Wordnik.com. [Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744] Reference
When these bodies were removed, the spectacle was a series of mythologic pictures, -- Cæsar's own idea. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
The Red Man lives in the east, in accordance with the regular mythologic color theory, as already explained. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference
A set of legendary tales undoubtedly there was, connected with the mythologic history of each separate deity. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference
Time relations are often hopelessly confused and the narratives are greatly incumbered with mythologic details. From Wordnik.com. [Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference
Throughout India there are stories of dwarf tribes descended from the monkey-God, or Hoonuman of the mythologic poems. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Brown in this instance has probably no mythologic significance, but refers to the color of the stone used in the ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference
In mythologic philosophy the phenomena of the outer physical world are supposed to be the acts of living, willing, designing personages. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56] Reference
I believe there can be no doubt that both these designs represent the same idea, and that a mythologic bird was intended in each instance. From Wordnik.com. [Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744] Reference
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