 | Christianity - 1856 - 538 pages
...ever remained separated from his spouse the Earth. Yet their mutual love still continues—the soft warm sighs of her loving bosom still ever rise up...tears upon her bosom, and men seeing these, term them dew-drops.'—P. 15. In parts of this fabulous history we may perhaps trace some analogy with the first... | |
 | 1856 - 542 pages
...separated from his spouse the Earth. Yet their mutual love still continues — the soft warm sighn of her loving bosom still ever rise up to him, ascending...bosom, and men seeing these, term them dew-drops.' — P. 15. In parts of this fabulous history we may perhaps trace some analogy with the first chapter... | |
 | Anthropology - 1869 - 688 pages
...still remains separated from his spouse, the Earth,^yet their mutual love still continues ; the soft warm sighs of her loving bosom still ever rise up...frequent tears upon her bosom, — and men, seeing them, term them dew-drops?" Are we to attribute this to some dim recollection of the etymological power... | |
 | Japan - 1922 - 342 pages
...be dealt with later in the discussion. An additional piece of evidence pointing toward the anc'ent Sky-Father character of Izanagi is to be derived from...the above, yet the Polynesian myth sheds valuable light on the incident of the weeping of Izanagi. After Izanami had retired upon giving birth to the... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - Mythology - 1880 - 980 pages
...ever remained separated from his spouse, the earth ; yet their mutual love still continues; the soft, warm sighs of her loving bosom still ever rise up...bosom, and men seeing these term them dew-drops.' "In China the same idea of the universal parentage is accompanied by a similar legend of the separation... | |
 | George William Rusden - Māori (New Zealand people) - 1883 - 680 pages
...soft warm sighs of her loving bosom still ever rise up to him, ascending from the woody mountains, and men call these mists ; and the vast Heaven, as...bosom, and men seeing these, term them dewdrops." i The children of Tu-matauenga multiplied upon earth, and in due time Maui, the Maori demigod, was... | |
 | George Grey - Folklore - 1885 - 522 pages
...Yet their mutual love still continues — the soft warm si^hs of her loving bosom still ever rise OO up to him, ascending from the woody mountains and...bosom, and men seeing these, term them dew-drops. THE LEGEND OF MAUL ONE day Maui asked his brothers to tell him the place where their father and mother... | |
 | Americus Featherman - Civilization - 1888 - 470 pages
...ascending from the woody mountains and the low valleys — and men called these mists. The vast sky as he mourns through the long nights his separation...frequent tears upon her bosom — and men seeing these termed them dew-drops.1 1 This allegorical poetical legend is reproduced in a somewhat abridged form... | |
 | Charles De Berard Mills - Folklore - 1888 - 302 pages
...ever remained separate from his spouse, the Earth. Yet their mutual love still continues, — the soft warm sighs of her loving bosom still ever rise up...bosom,. and men seeing these, term them dew-drops." * So we find here fountains of clear water, wells of life, opening for us in unexpected places. Humanity... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1889 - 532 pages
...mists ; and the vast Heaven, as he mourns through the long nights his. separation from his heloved, drops frequent tears upon her bosom, and men seeing these term them dew-drops." 1 The rending asunder of heaven and earth is a far-spread Polynesian legend, well known in the island... | |
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Up to this time the vast Heaven has still ever remained separated from his spouse the Earth. Yet their mutual love still continues — the warm sighs of her loving bosom still ever rise up to him, ascending from the woody mountains and valleys, and men... 
