“The word tělětē means rite of growing up, becoming complete.”
― Ancient Art and Ritual
― Ancient Art and Ritual
“Hebrew is a language which has no tenses at all, it has only aspects.”
― Aspects, Aorists and the Classical Tripos
― Aspects, Aorists and the Classical Tripos
“But sacrifice does not mean “death” at all.”
― Ancient Art and Ritual
― Ancient Art and Ritual
“Thus among the Carrier Indians 33 when a man wants to become a Lulem, or Bear, however cold the season, he tears off his clothes, puts on a bearskin and dashes into the woods, where he will stay for three or four days.”
― Ancient Art and Ritual
― Ancient Art and Ritual
“There is a little dull ache for Oblomov and his dreams. Man does not live by bread alone, not even by the most wholesome bread punctually served. There is dream-stuff as well as bread-stuff. Sometimes man's strength is to sit still.”
― Aspects, Aorists and the Classical Tripos
― Aspects, Aorists and the Classical Tripos
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