 | American Oriental Society - 1906 - 244 pàgines
...appendix. 'Celestial choristers and musicians, attendants on Kuvera, the god of wealth, and represented with the body of a man and the head of a horse. VIDUSAKA. It's pretty plain from Vicaksana's words that her heart has beeu given you before marriage... | |
 | William Edward Frye - 1908 - 452 pàgines
...act of kissing his hand as if to thank him for his deliverance; the Minotaur is here represented as a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull); a Centaur carrying off a nymph; a car 262 drawn by a parrot and driven by a cricket : a woman... | |
 | Dhammakitti - 1909 - 574 pàgines
...generally resided. * I believe a three-sided house for a three-sided image is meant here. * A demi-god with the body of a man and the head of a horse. 4 The sacred swan. 5 Booms in which fires are kept for the purpose of warming the body, boiling water,... | |
 | Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - 1910 - 296 pàgines
...by him.—labyrinth (l&b'I-rfnth): a place full of winding passageways.— Minotaur (min'6-tar): a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. HOW THESEUS SLEW THE MINOTAUR At last they came to Crete, and to the palace of Minos the great... | |
 | Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - 1911 - 424 pàgines
...inflicted by him.—labyrinth (ISb'I-rlnth): a place full of winding passageways.— Minotanr (mm'6-tar): a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. HOW THESEUS SLEW THE MINOTAUR At last they came to Crete, and to the palace of Minos the great... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1912 - 332 pàgines
...lovesick queen was hidden while the bull mounted it. The result of their union was the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, whom the king shut up in the labyrinth, a building full of such winding and intricate passages... | |
 | Stanford University. Philological Association - 1916 - 248 pàgines
...god of the mountains, of thunder and lightning, and of war, reappears in Crete differentiated into a monster with the body of a man and the head of a boll, and the demigod Theseos who slew him; while in Attica a more rational differentiation trans'Grcppe.... | |
 | Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch - 1916 - 698 pàgines
...the skilled craftsman Daidalos; but her sin became known when she brought into the world a hideous monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull — the Minotaur.1 Advised by an oracle, Minos shut the creature in the labyrinth which Daidalos... | |
 | William Sherwood Fox - 1916 - 678 pàgines
...the skilled craftsman Daidalos; but her sin became known when she brought into the world a hideous monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull — the Minotaur.1 Advised by an oracle, Minos shut the creature in the labyrinth which Daidalos... | |
 | William Sherwood Fox - 1916 - 678 pàgines
...the skilled craftsman Daidalos; but her sin became known when she brought into the world a hideous monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull — the Minotaur.1 Advised by an oracle, Minos shut the creature in the labyrinth which Daidalos... | |
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They are a dwarfish kind of monster, with the body of a man and the head of a horse, and are otherwise called Kinnara. 
