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Página 457 - ... we find, by the comparing their ideas, that thought and motion are different from each other, and by experience, that they are constantly united; which being all the circumstances that enter into the idea of cause and effect when applied to the operations of matter, we may certainly conclude that motion may be, and actually is, the cause of thought and perception.
Página 359 - not less remarkable than well attested, that the Druids in their groves were accustomed to select the most stately and beautiful tree as an emblem of the deity they adored, and, having cut...
Página 372 - ... him; he was struck exactly upon his left leg, and down he fell, and as he lay fluttering and struggling upon the ground, they all ran to catch him, but lo ! the pigeon had turned into a man. Then all those who saw him were frightened at his fierce glaring eyes, which were red as if painted with red ochre, and they said : " Oh, it is now no wonder that he so long sat still up in the tree; had he been a bird he would have flown off long before, but he is a man.
Página 372 - Are you Maui-tiki-tiki-o-Taranga?" and he answered, "Yes." And she cried aloud : " This is, indeed, my child. By the winds and storms and wave-uplifting gales he was fashioned and became a human being; welcome, oh, my child, welcome! By you shall hereafter be climbed the threshold of the house of your great ancestor Hine-nui-te-po, and death shall thenceforth have no power over man.
Página 379 - The grand secret of fire was thus secured. But the victor resolved to be revenged for his trouble and his tossing in the air, by setting fire to his fallen adversary's abode. In a short time all nether-world was in flames, which consumed the fire-god and all he possessed. Even the rocks cracked and split with the heat; hence the ancient saying in that land, " The rocks of Orovaru (in the shades) are burning.
Página 397 - The Pramantha was afterwards transformed by the Greeks into " Prometheus, who, they imagined, stole fire from heaven, so as to instil into " earth-born man the bright spark of the soul.
Página 394 - Tyre being rubbed against each other, took fire, and all the forest in the neighbourhood was consumed. And Usous having taken a tree, and broken off its boughs, was the first who dared to venture on the sea. And he consecrated two pillars to Fire and Wind, and worshipped them, and poured out upon them the blood of the wild beasts he took in hunting: and when these men were dead, those that remained consecrated to them rods, and worshipped the pillars, and held anniversary feasts in honour of them.
Página 374 - Oh, let water be given to me to quench this fire which pursues after me;" and lo, then appeared squalls and gales, and Tawhiri-ma-tea sent heavy lasting rain, and the fire was quenched; and before Mahuika could reach her place of shelter, she almost perished in the rain, and her shrieks and screams became as loud as those of Maui had been, when he was scorched by the pursuing fire; thus Maui ended this proceeding, In this manner was extinguished the fire of Mahuika, the goddess of fire; but before...
Página 397 - ... so that this wooden scaffolding might not be moved. At the point where the two pieces of wood were joined, there was a small hole, in which a third piece of wood, in the form of a lance (called Pramanttui), was rotated by means of a cord made of cow-hair and hemp, till the fire was generated by friction.
Página 373 - Then he went, and reached the abode of the goddess of fire; and he was so filled with wonder at what he saw, that for a long time he could say nothing. At last he said: 'Oh, lady, would you rise up? Where is your fire kept? I have come to beg some from you.