An Exposition of the Mysteries; Or, Religious Dogmas and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Pythagoreans, and Druidsauthor, 1835 - 403 pages |
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... Diodorus Siculus , and from the conformity of the Athenian laws with the Egyptians , that the first inhabitants of Attica were an Egyptian colony . We have even several * Every royal arch chapter of masons is supplied with a similar ...
... Diodorus Siculus , and from the conformity of the Athenian laws with the Egyptians , that the first inhabitants of Attica were an Egyptian colony . We have even several * Every royal arch chapter of masons is supplied with a similar ...
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... Diodorus Siculus , ( Biblieth . l . 1. ) informs us how these tombs were regulated , and in an exact description of the burying - place at Memphis , the largest and most frequented of all , relates all that was practised there ...
... Diodorus Siculus , ( Biblieth . l . 1. ) informs us how these tombs were regulated , and in an exact description of the burying - place at Memphis , the largest and most frequented of all , relates all that was practised there ...
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... Diodorus Siculus . " Statues had their eyes shut , and their hands close to their sides . But Dædalus taught men how to give them eyes , to separate their legs , and to clear their hands from their body . Which procured him the general ...
... Diodorus Siculus . " Statues had their eyes shut , and their hands close to their sides . But Dædalus taught men how to give them eyes , to separate their legs , and to clear their hands from their body . Which procured him the general ...
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... Diodorus Siculus , Ctesias , etc. The accounts are inconsistent and incredible ; and indeed what credit can be given to the History of a person , Semiramis , the time of whose life cannot be ascertained within 1535 years ? for so great ...
... Diodorus Siculus , Ctesias , etc. The accounts are inconsistent and incredible ; and indeed what credit can be given to the History of a person , Semiramis , the time of whose life cannot be ascertained within 1535 years ? for so great ...
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... Diodorus Siculus we receive the information that in the tomb of Osymandias were deposited twenty thou- sand volumes , —a number which is reduced by Manetho to three thousand five hundred and twenty - five , —all of which , on account of ...
... Diodorus Siculus we receive the information that in the tomb of Osymandias were deposited twenty thou- sand volumes , —a number which is reduced by Manetho to three thousand five hundred and twenty - five , —all of which , on account of ...
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