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Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions (1919)

Bayley, Harold · London : Chapman & Hall ltd. · leaf 154

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The ancients generally supposed the All Good as wan-dering abroad and peering unobserved into the thoughtsand actions of his children. This proclivity was a con-spicuous characteristic of Jupiter, and also of the Scandin- IV.] ALBION 143 avian All Father, one of whose titles was Gangrad, or The… … Fig. 26.—Figure of Time with Three Faces. Fi-om a French Miniatureof the XIV. cent. From Christian Iconography (Didron). the probability that the rambling tendencies of Gangrad and other gods were similarly assigned by the British totheir Giant, jeyantt, or Good John. Jaunty or Jantymeans full of…

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