The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day (1899)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co.; London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner · leaf 228
the tales of divine saviours may be ulti-mately founded upon local Greek traditions, but manyfeatures of these religiousmyths indicate that theywere introduced earlyfrom the Orient whosereligions began to influ-ence the occidental na-tions at the very dawn oftheir civilisation. ThusHercules is the… … The Lion-Killing Hero of KHORSABAD.f vice on shields. The original of the upper illustration on p. 207 is colored,—whichadds to the frightful appearance of this picture found on the Acropolis at Athens, *The statue reproduced on p. 208 belongs to an older period of Greek art. andthe horse Pegasus…
Devil · Demonology · Good and evil
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