The Calendar Plant of China, the Cosmic Tree, and the Date Palm of Babylonia

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David Nutt, 1890 - Mythology - 22 pages
 

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Page 13 - This book is a preservation photocopy produced on Weyerhaeuser acid free Cougar Opaque 50# book weight paper, which meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO
Page 5 - mother." (There is the home) of the mighty mother who passes across the sky. In the midst of it was Tammuz. ^ There is the shrine ?) of the two (gods
Page 2 - grew on each side of the palace stairs. On the first day of the month it produced one pod, and so on, every day a pod to the
Page 7 - or Zigarum, the heaven (WAI II, 48, 26 ; 50, 27), whom a mythological list describes as " the mother that has begotten heaven and earth
Page 19 - the means whereby he is to cure a man who is possessed of the seven evil spirits,
Page 4 - In Eridu a stalk grew overshadowing ; in a holy place did it become green
Page 2 - to the last day of the month ; and if the month was a short one (of
Page 20 - daughter commanded I Ti to make wine, and it was good. She gave of it to Yii
Page 20 - tasted of it, poured the liquid upon the ground, and sent I Ti
Page 2 - When the Emperor Yao had been on the throne seventy years, .... a kind of plant, called

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