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That's why the American crime show's favorite bad guy is the serial killer, a mythologically exaggerated monster whose existence lets filmmakers titillate and terrify while declining to engage with society at large. The problem with American remakes of British shows 2011-02-09T15:01:00Z
With mythologically named characters sometimes voicing their stage directions and inner narration, the plays seemed mannered, and the productions felt groomed to slickness. Review | ‘Moonlight’ writer McCraney’s writing still glows in ‘The Brothers Size’ 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z
Marvel’s recent work with its version of Hercules has been very entertaining, and mythologically accurate as well. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: George O'Connor On Greek Myths 2012-02-24T17:49:29Z
“These are not normal families, not happy or sad families, but families so cracked and mythologically weird that they are more like interesting old ruins,” Rebecca Lee writes in her review. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z
Sutra in Sanskrit means the thread that binds things together, and Le Sutra aims to tie up mythologically inspired art and hospitality into a restful whole. An Oasis in Mumbai: Le Sutra 2010-08-26T08:35:00Z
Here, for instance, is a mythologically inflected description of a visit Chris pays to his mother, who’s just entered a nursing home. Review | ‘The Latinist’ is the perfect suspense novel to kick off your reading year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z
Because, what does Isis do, what is she known for mythologically? The search for decolonial love 2012-07-02T20:54:00Z
These are not normal families, not happy or sad families, but families so cracked and mythologically weird that they are more like interesting old ruins. A Cyclops With a Dating Profile and Other Fanciful Characters 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z
The wind’s mythologically sexual aspect can be aggressive, relentless and even, in some legends, germinative. Experimental Literature That Tests Family Bonds and Routines 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z
But I’ll go even deeper and explain mythologically what god or goddess rules over which planet. How to banish the bad energy from your workday, according to an astrologer 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z
It lay as far to the east as one could get in Mesoamerica, linking it to the mythologically potent rising Sun. ‘Astounding new finds’ suggest ancient empire may be hiding in plain sight 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z
But his presence is everywhere in corridors and committee rooms; there is even a mythologically charged cycle of 19 lithographs, Alpha and Omega, which he designed while recovering from his breakdown. Edvard Munch: booze, bullets and breakdowns 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z
But even the book’s mythologically justified racism, which had Gilead deporting black citizens because of the Curse of Ham, would seem toothless today. The Handmaid’s Tale doesn’t quite get modern American misogyny 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z
But Orphan Black was critically lauded for basically its entire run, and even the relative low points in the mythologically dense third season were still excellent TV, even in today's oversaturated market. Orphan Black’s series finale is the show in a microcosm 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z
It’s pure America, mythologically big, designed to produce a maximum perception of power and darker and more troubled than its image. 9 songs you can proudly crank on July 4th (but only on July 4th) - Golf Digest 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z
With mythologically germane accessories, exercise restraint when channeling your inner goddess. Grecian Formulas: Modern Goddess Style for Spring 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z
The long tradition of mythologically driven historiography, alive now in the endless river of hagiographic stories by writers such as David McCullough, does not count. Our glorious Thanksgiving unraveling: Race, protest, patriotism — and the forming, finally, of a true American spirit 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z
To these three personages, different functions are assigned, in the Hindoo system of mythologic superstition, corresponding to the different significations of their names. The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z
The mythologic story of Mithras was probably Assyrian in detail, though Persian in first conception. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z
They were unable for the reason that the mythologic account was unknown to them, or had been lost or was unconsidered; whatever the reason, neither papyrus nor inscription explains it. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z
Minerva and the Muses were virgins; and in this and other fabulous traditions, we find the ancients illustrating in their mythologic allegories many physical facts and observations. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
At the beginning, religion, consisting chiefly of emotions, presentiments, movements of the heart, clothed itself in mythologic forms.... Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z
His pictures are mostly Scriptural or mythologic in subject, and between two and three hundred of them are to be found in various European collections—more than a hundred of these containing life-sized figures. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z
In the midst of the enclosure was a tomb, and the walls of the enclosure itself were adorned within and without with a great series of reliefs, mostly of mythologic purport. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z
Farinato executed some sculptures, and various etchings of sacred and mythologic subjects; his works of all kinds were much in request, including the wax models which he wrought as studies for his painted figures. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z
It tells of 412 the poet’s delight in that late, exquisitely and spiritually symbolic product of the mythologic spirit of expiring paganism, the story of Cupid and Psyche. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z
These strange divisions of spirit and world according to some dim and mythologic hierarchy were with Blake matters at once serious and commonplace. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z
He seemed the impersonation of an Apollo—or, to speak less mythologically, a well-behaved gentleman waiting for some ceremony, of which he was to be a simple spectator. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z
"Even that chubby little cuss is enlarged mythologically." The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z
The notions just mentioned are in themselves too shadowy and vague, they bear too plainly the marks of their mythologic pedigree, to admit of being worked into such a coherent and closely reasoned theory. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z
Aztlan must pass through all the fated field Of mythologic peculence and lore, And to their sturdy priestcraft blindly yield, To cipher out the destinies in store. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation
Thus is it with the Titan Albion and all his race of mythologic men, when for them “Vala supplants Jerusalem,” the husk replaces the fruit, the mutable form eclipses the immutable substance. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z
“Mrs. Gerome, will you be so kind as to explain this mythologic design?” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part
To that tendency for personification which marks the early life of man are due many of the mythologic conceptions. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition
He has “no figures nor no fantasies, which busy passion draws in the brains of men:” neither the gorgeous machinery of mythologic lore, nor the splendid colours of poetic diction. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature
I have recollections which date several months ere the completion of my third year; but, like those of the golden age of the world, they are chiefly of a mythologic character. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education.
Allegory, here as always, is interfused with myth in a manner at once violent and intricate; but in this book the mere mythologic fancy of Blake labours for the most part without curb or guide. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z
The ancient races were accustomed to conceive of the vessel as the body of an animal, an idea originating in the association of mythologic conceptions with art. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188
In Hindustan, says Maurice, "the veneration of the serpent is evident in every page of their mythologic history, in which every fabulous personage of note is represented as grasping or as environed with a serpent." Bible Romances First Series
Great tempests, inundations, eclipses, earthquakes, thunder and lightning, famine and pestilence, the births of monsters, or the rare visitation of strange fishes or wild animals, come all to be included in the mythologic domain. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
Psychologically and mythologically the breeze has the value of a spermatic symbol. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts
In earnest, the externals of this poem are too incredibly grotesque—the mythologic plan too incomparably tortuous—to be fit for any detailed coherence of remark. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z
Elements from art, being mechanical, are meaningless or non-ideographic; those from nature are in early stages of art usually associated with mythologic conceptions, and hence are ideographic. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188
The Italian power of abstraction into one mythologic personage—Holbein's death is only literal. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
With festivities in representation of mythologic scenes, Majorca welcomed the Lord of Spain and the Indies, of Germany and of Italy, who now happened to be suffering from gout and other infirmities. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan
In savagery the observed facts of the universe, relating alike to physical nature and to the humanities, are explained mythologically, and these mythic conceptions give rise to a great variety of practices. Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891
The whole stage is elemental, the scheme one of patriarchal vapour, and the mythologic actors mere Titans outlined in cloud. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z
Why do the caterpillars of our giant moths—the mythologically named Cecropia, Polyphemus, Luna, and Prometheus—show such individuality in the position which they choose for their temporary shrouds? The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
In this way the drama slowly came into being, comedy from the jovial by-play of the rustic actors, tragedy from their crude efforts to reproduce the serious side of mythologic story. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
So, by comparing the mythologic legends of these later races, we may, with strictest accuracy, determine what was the parent stem. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Thus the east, north, west, and south are respectively the Sun Land, the Frigid Land, the Darkening Land, and Wă´hală´, while their respective mythologic colors are Red, Blue, Black, and White. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398
It is against the mythologic scenery, if I may use the term, rather than against the life and substance of religion, that Science enters her protest. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
Riddle-making is not left alone by the purveyors of nursery yarns, though belonging to the mythologic state of thought. A History of Nursery Rhymes
Perhaps the most common figures on modern food bowls is the head of a mythologic being, the Corn-maid, Calako-mana, but this picture, or any which resembles it, is not found on the bowls from Sikyatki. 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
Sixthly, Is without proper station and function in the general economy of the universe; or is mythologically displaced. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
The instrument used is selected in accordance with the mythologic theory, excepting in the case of the piece of glass, which is merely a modern makeshift for the flint arrowhead. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398
The mythologic gods are no longer worth talking about for serious men. The Chief End of Man
Theistic Society.—Again, the actors in mythologic philosophy are personages, and we always find them organized in societies. 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
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. 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
He also gives an original and acute suggestion to account for the persistence of the structural plan of the kivas by its religious or mythologic signification. Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891
Brown in this instance has probably no mythologic significance, but refers to the color of the stone used in the ceremony. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398
Zeus is not always the questionable son of Cronus, nor the gods always the mythologic Olympians. Short Studies on Great Subjects
Thaumaturgics.—The gods of mythologic philosophies are created to account for the wonders of nature. 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
There can be no reasonable doubt that the decoration of the food basin shown in plate cxxxvii, a, represents a bird, and analogy would indicate that it is the picture of some mythologic personage. 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
It was composed of mythologic episodes spectacularly treated. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
It seldom occurs in the formulas and its mythologic significance is as yet undetermined. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398
Time relations are often hopelessly confused and the narratives are greatly incumbered with mythologic details. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228
Hence, religion, which has to do with the relations which exist between the gods and man, is the legitimate offspring of mythologic philosophy. 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
Love, a mythologic image of the grand secret and the grand agent, 732-m. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
A variety of singular and interesting occurrences attended this great event—mythologic rites, gambling, horse and foot racing, general merriment, and curing the sick, the latter being the prime cause of the gathering. Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians
The mythologic significance of the different colors is well shown in this formula. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398
Your wisest scholars lose themselves in trying to unthread the mazes and mysteries of those incomprehensible depths of diabolical worship and intertwined beauty and honor, now known only from trebly diminished mythologic reflection. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Still further in the study of mythologic philosophy we see that more and more supremacy falls into the hands of the few, until monotheism is established on the plan of the empire. 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
Besides, the hieroglyphs of other known deities occur each time in the above-mentioned places, so that definite mythologic relations must be assumed to exist here between the women repsented and the deities in question. Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1
The figure probably represents one of the mythologic personages of the Moki pantheon or some otherwise important priestly functionary, wearing the characteristic headdress of the ceremony in which the plaque was to be used. A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252)
The prayer possesses a special interest, as it brings out several new points in the Cherokee mythologic theory of medicine. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398
This fellow repeated aloud and he must have been going over the mythologic lore of his family for very many generations, and yet he did not sleep.  Adventures in New Guinea
There are two grand stages of philosophy—the mythologic and scientific. 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
The great abundance of symbolism renders difficult the characterization of the deity, and it is well-nigh impossible to discover that a single mythologic idea underlies the whole. Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1
In the more advanced stages of Pueblo art the ornament of nearly all the textiles is pervaded by ideographic characters, generally rude suggestions of life forms, borrowed, perhaps, from mythologic art. A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252)
This unit in their organization has a mythologic basis, and is chiefly used for religious purposes, in the preparation of medicines, and in festivals and games. Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society Bureau of American Ethnology
The peculiar geologic and geographic character of the country surrounding them, as well as its aridity, furnishes ample sources from which a barbarous people would derive legendary and mythologic history. The Religious Life of the Zuñi Child
In mythologic philosophy the phenomena of the outer physical world are supposed to be the acts of living, willing, designing personages. 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
Essentially the same deities and the same mythologic ideas are, without question, to be found in all the manuscripts. Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1
For these men turned their faces away from the poetical and mythologic way of accounting for things, which had obtained up to their time, and set their faces toward Science. An Introduction to Philosophy
If I declared the Constancy of Nature's Laws, and sought therein great argument for the Constancy of God, all the miracles came and held their mythologic finger up. The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
Before entering upon the purely mythologic phases of Zuñi child life I will present a brief sketch of some of the Zuñi beliefs. The Religious Life of the Zuñi Child
You may call this mythologic or scientific, as you please. 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
A mythologic significance also seems to belong to the bee which plays so prominent a part of the Codex Troano. Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1
We compare it with the dry mythologic blossoms of the classical hortus siccus, and with Greek ritual and temple legend, and with Märchen in the scholiasts, and we think the comparisons very illuminating.  Modern Mythology
When it had not actually a mythologic subject to deal with, it paganized Christian themes. Italian Journeys
There are thirteen secret orders in Zuñi, in many of which women and children are conspicuous, besides the purely mythologic order of the Kōk-kō. The Religious Life of the Zuñi Child
Abstractly, the plane of demarkation between the two methods of philosophy can be sharply drawn, but practically we find them strangely mixed; mythologic methods prevail in savagery and barbarism, and scientific methods prevail in civilization. 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
Such legends, which have lost any mythologic elements they may originally have possessed and have become merely contes, are not uncommon in the folk-lore of many countries. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
At the left were more attractions: another menagerie, a heap of ostensible gold representing the five milliards paid by France, a gallery of astonished wax soldiers representing the Franco-Prussian war, a cook-shop with "mythologic" confectionery. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
Their white skins, large eyes with wide gaze, their lovely children appear in religious and mythologic pictures at every turn you make in this museum. Promenades of an Impressionist
One I will call the practical or domestic; the other, the mythologic or religious. The Religious Life of the Zuñi Child
The three stages of mythologic philosophy that are still extant in the world must be more thoroughly characterized, and the course of their evolution indicated. 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
They fulfill, however, one very definite though not obviously important function which is indicated by the mythologic name they have received. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
From this mythologic past of the ancients was reflected upon their present every-day existence a peculiar glory; but it was not the glory of humanity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863
It seems strange in the presence of a Cézanne picture to realise that he, too, suffered his little term of lyric madness and wrestled with huge mythologic themes—giant men carrying off monstrous women. Promenades of an Impressionist
Or Bacchus; mythologically said to be the son of Zeus and Semele. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
But in order to do this clearly, certain outgrowths from mythologic philosophy must be explained—certain theories and practices that necessarily result from, this philosophy, and that are intricately woven into the institutions of mankind. 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
Certainly his features were altogether too regular, his head and body too perfectly moulded into that dark and graceful symmetry which she had hitherto vaguely associated with things purely and mythologically Olympian. Ailsa Paige
The terms nim and auk, dance and tree, and the local ong, are introduced to describe the particular locality and circumstances of the mythologic dances. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
He has "no figures nor no fantasies, which busy passion draws in the brains of men:" neither the gorgeous machinery of mythologic lore, nor the splendid colours of poetic diction. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
In subject they are either erotic, mythologic, or descriptive of nature. Ballads of a Bohemian
If the world's opinions were governed only by the principles of mythologic philosophy, affirmatization would become so powerful that nothing would be believed but the anciently affirmed. 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
With all his sovereign sound sense, Ambrose Pare has loaded his book with references to impossibly strange, and even mythologic cases. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The epic fastens upon some event of such commanding importance that it marks a main current of history; some story, historic, or mythologic; some incident susceptible of extended narrative treatment. The Book of Old English Ballads
Why dancing should be associated with bridges I cannot tell for certain, but there is probably some mythologic origin. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
There is in regard to them a most wonderful fact: In nearly all the theologies, mythologic and religious, the devils have been much more humane and merciful than the gods. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc.
Thus we see that out of mythologic philosophy, as branches of the great tree itself, there grow ancientism, theistic society, spiritism, thaumaturgics, mythic tales, and religion. 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
According to Goldzhier, long locks of hair and a long beard are mythologic attributes of the sun. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The long winter evenings of an Indian camp are usually devoted to the relation of mythologic stories, which purport to give a history of an ancient race of animal gods. Canyons of the Colorado
In the mythologic tales of the Iroquois, the child appears frequently as a hero and an adventurer. 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
Since that feat an almost mythologic awe had attached itself to her locally. From a Bench in Our Square
Fetichism, then, is a religious means, not a philosophic or mythologic state. 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
How opposite and remote from each other are the mythologic ages and the nineteenth century! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859
His most famous work was his "Metamorphoses," mythologic legends involving transformations,--a most poetical and imaginative production. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations
Now, so long as he paints only indifferent objects,—Nymphs, and Fauns, and mythologic divinities,—I had no objection. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2
Writing is the great source of historical confusion, because falsehoods accumulate in books, persons are confounded, and fictions assume, as in the mythologic genealogies of India, Persia, Greece, and Rome, a regular and systematic form. First Footsteps in East Africa
Meanwhile, you gentlemen, to whom human affairs are not sufficient occupation, may solicit the insertion of divine fingers into your mythologic pie.' Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
There is a certain grotesque humor in Thor's adventures, which is missed in his mythologic counterpart of the South, Hercules. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859
And it may be conjectured that in that versatile lady Empusa we have but another artist of the same kind, mythologically treated. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
A set of legendary tales undoubtedly there was, connected with the mythologic history of each separate deity. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
In the centre, with wings outstretched, is Atlas, mythologically the first astronomer. Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts
In the center stands Atlas, mythologically the first astronomer. Palaces and Courts of the Exposition
There is nothing more drear, monstrous, wild, dark, and lonely in the descriptions of the mythologic than of the scientific page. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859
The dissolution of Jesus into mythologic vapour was nothing less than the death of a friend dearer to me then than any other friend whom I knew. Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott
When these bodies were removed, the spectacle was a series of mythologic pictures,—C�sar's own idea. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
But, sir, I further propose that the Athenian theatre being resuscitated, the admission shall be free to all who can expound the Greek choruses, constructively, mythologically, and metrically, and to none others. Crotchet Castle
The marquise was one of the best informed women in Paris; her salon, as an old academician had said mythologically, was the Temple of Fame. The Deputy of Arcis
It may be stated that the entire difference of opinion proved that mythologic art is apt to be misunderstood. Penelope's Postscripts
In the luxuriant mythologic growth there exhibited, we may yet trace the various successive phases of Christologic speculation but imperfectly blended. The Unseen World and Other Essays
The skeleton-key of identification, used even as ably as Dr. Rydberg uses it, will not pick every mythologic lock, though it undoubtedly has opened many hitherto closed. The Danish History, Books I-IX
And we need not be surprised if we find in the resulting mythologic structures a strong resemblance to the familiar creations of the Aryan intelligence. Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
Obviously such fancies are purely of mythologic parentage. The Unseen World and Other Essays
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