| 单词 | serpent-worship |
| 例句 | This is one only of the many traces still extant of that serpent-worship formerly so general in Western India. Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India 2011-07-12T02:00:31.917Z Incredible as it may seem, there has been a revival in the remote villages of the old African serpent-worship, and child sacrifices, followed by cannibalism. The Friars in the Philippines 2011-06-17T02:00:20.100Z Possibly at Delphi and other places there was an old serpent-worship ousted by that of Apollo, which may account for expiation for the slaying of Python being considered necessary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" He told my parents that the boils had come in consequence of their neglect of serpent-worship, and that the children would be cured if my parents would again worship snakes. Old Daniel Or was it the commemoration of some battle in olden times, or the record of astronomical or geometrical discoveries, or a temple once devoted to serpent-worship, or what? Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Rhodes was under this predicament, and had the name of Ophiusa: which name was given on account of the Hivites, who there settled, and of the serpent-worship, which they introduced. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) The primaeval serpent-worship is perpetuated in the reverence paid to traditional village-snakes. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official But with the early serpent-worship there was associated another, that of the groves, of which you will also find the evidence exhaustively collected in Mr. Fergussen's work. The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm And now to remove the boils from their children they resolved to comply with the fortune-teller’s directions, and go through a grand performance of serpent-worship. Old Daniel The secret practice of serpent-worship was punishable, as the stolen gatherings for dancing were, because it unfitted them for the next day's toil, and excited notions of vengeance in their minds. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 "I have a thing on serpent-worship," the scientist replied—"written years ago." The Damnation of Theron Ware This long-trailing object in the skies was probably the origin of that primeval serpent-worship found all over the world. Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel They were all pagans, accustomed to Fetich- and serpent-worship, very superstitious, without manliness and dignity, stupid and unimpressible. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 |
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