- EAN13
- 9782491962463
- Éditeur
- Human and Literature Publishing
- Date de publication
- 04/09/2021
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
The Antillean Volcanoes, and the Eruption of Mount Pelee
W. J. Mcgee, Thomas A. Jaggar Jr
Human and Literature Publishing
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Aide EAN13 : 9782491962463
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In all ages volcanoes have played a prominent role in human thought The Vulcan
of classic mythology was but the head of a family of earth-gods born of the
polytechnic Mediterranean mind fertilized by the "burning mountains" of
continents conjoined in the Levant; and in the still lower stages of human
development represented by scores of surviving tribes, Fire-Earth deities head
the primitive pantheons—indeed, the Vulcanean notion seems to run back to a
pristine stage in which the forerunners of living races first stole Vulcan's
torch, tamed capricious and ferocious fire even as other [to them] beasts were
tamed, and thus took the initial step in that nature-conquest by which man
rose above lower life. Certain it is that Vulcanean myths are most dominant in
lower savagery, feebler albeit sharper-cut about the birth-time of writing,
and decadent during the period of written history.
of classic mythology was but the head of a family of earth-gods born of the
polytechnic Mediterranean mind fertilized by the "burning mountains" of
continents conjoined in the Levant; and in the still lower stages of human
development represented by scores of surviving tribes, Fire-Earth deities head
the primitive pantheons—indeed, the Vulcanean notion seems to run back to a
pristine stage in which the forerunners of living races first stole Vulcan's
torch, tamed capricious and ferocious fire even as other [to them] beasts were
tamed, and thus took the initial step in that nature-conquest by which man
rose above lower life. Certain it is that Vulcanean myths are most dominant in
lower savagery, feebler albeit sharper-cut about the birth-time of writing,
and decadent during the period of written history.
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