Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 407
aat Florence—one of the finest interpretations of a mytho-logic subject ever painted—may comprehend what to theearly explorer and colonist were the fascinations of thoserumoured regions where nature was fair but girt roundwith terrors. The Gorgons head alone is given, with itsfearful tangle of… … Fig. 31.—Bellerophon and Chimera (Corinthian). nondescript creatures. Here is the malaria of undrainedcoasts, the vermin of noxious nature. The source of thesemust be destroyed before man can found his city ; it is thefiery poisonous breath of the Colonial Dragon. Most of the Dragon-myths of Great…
Demonology · Mythology · Occultism
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