 | Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 628 pages
...thought no improper emblem of the Ark, in which were preserved the rudiments of the future world. Hence in the Dionusiaca, and in other mysteries, one part...ceremony consisted in the *° consecration of an egg. By this, as we are informed by Porphyry, was signified the world. 'I'.cy.m^iin Se TO uov rov xotrpov.... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 486 pages
...thought no improper emblem of the Ark, in which were preserved the rudiments of the future world. Hence in the Dionusiaca, and in other mysteries, one part...ceremony consisted in the " consecration of an egg. By this, as we are informed by Porphyry, was signified the world. " 'E^-nvtvtiv St ra uov TOV XO<TJI*OK.... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 484 pages
...thought no improper emblem of the Ark, in which were preserved the rudiments of the future world. Hence in the Dionusiaca, and in other mysteries, one part...ceremony consisted in the " consecration of an egg. By this, as we are informed by Porphyry, was signified the world. г1 'Ecpnvcvciv Si то uov -TOV... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1816 - 618 pages
...Eleusinian Ceres, and in other similar Mysteries which are for the most part commemorative of the deluge, one part of the nocturnal ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg ;4 and another part, which serves literally to explain the meaning of the former, in placing the image... | |
 | 1823 - 896 pages
...thought no improper emblem of the ark, in which were preserved the rudiments of the future world. Hence, in the Dionusiaca, and in other mysteries, one part...ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg. By this, we are informed by Porphyry, was signified the world. This world was Noah and hie family ;... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 514 pages
...thought no improper emblem of the ark, in which were preserved the rudiments of the future world : hence, in the Dionusiaca, and in other mysteries, one part...ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg. By this, as we are informed by Porphyry, was signified the world. It seems to have been a favourite... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 468 pages
...elucidation. I believe it to be of the most remote antiquity, and to have been amongst the oldest nations. one part of the nocturnal ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg. By this, as we are informed by Porphyry, was signified the world. It seems to have been a favourite... | |
 | 1832 - 428 pages
...the ark, in which were preserved the rudiments of the future world ;' hence, in the Dionusiaca, and other mysteries, one part of the nocturnal ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg ; by which was signified the world. This seems to have been a favourite symbol among many nations ;... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 362 pages
...of the ark, in which were preserved the rudiments of the future world: hence, in the Dionusiaca, and other mysteries, one part of the nocturnal ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg ; by which was signified the world. This seems to have been'a favourite symbol among many nations ;... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 924 pages
...thought no improper emblem of the ark, in which were preserved the rudiments jf the future world : hence, "in the Dionusiaca, and in other mysteries one part...ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg. By this, as we are informed by Porphyry, was signified the world. It seems to have been a favourite... | |
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An egg, containing in it the elements of life, was thought no improper emblem of the ark, in which were preserved the rudiments of the future world : hence, in the Dionusiaca, and in other mysteries, one part of the nocturnal ceremony consisted in the... 
