 | Joseph Ritson - Celts - 1827 - 414 pages
...of it excrescences like spots in the earth: and that Apollo once in nineteen years comes into this island;' in which space of time the stars perform...great year. At this time of his appearance, they say, he plays upon the harp, and sings and dances all the night, from the vernal equinox to the rising of... | |
 | Science - 1852 - 422 pages
...special kindness for the Grecians," concludes with the following statement : — " They say, moreover, that Apollo once in nineteen years comes into the...the revolution of nineteen years the Great Year." This mythological reference to the cycle of nineteen years, * Ex. xx., 2S. at the end of which the... | |
 | Science - 1852 - 386 pages
...special kindness for the Grecians," concludes with the following statement : — " They say, moreover, that Apollo once in nineteen years comes into the...the revolution of nineteen years the Great Year." This mythological reference to the cycle of nineteen years, * Ex. xx., 25. at the end of which the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1857 - 500 pages
...descendants of one man, as recorded in the quotation. The passage concludes thus : — " They say, moreover, that Apollo once in nineteen years comes into the...the revolution of nineteen years the Great Year." This mythological reference to the cycle of nineteen years, at the end of which the new and full moons... | |
 | Richard Edmonds - Land's End (England) - 1862 - 330 pages
...descendants of one man, as recorded in the quotation. The passage concludes thus : — " They say, moreover, that Apollo once in nineteen years comes into the...the revolution of nineteen years the Great Year." This mythological reference to the cycle of nineteen years, at the end of which the new and full moons... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - Ireland - 1898 - 692 pages
...seems as if it were near to the earth, and represents, on the face of it, excrescences like spots on the earth ; and that Apollo once in nineteen years...of his appearance they say that he plays upon the harp, and sings and dances all the night, from the vernal equinox 2 to the rising of the Pleiades,3... | |
 | Harold Bayley - Folklore - 1912 - 406 pages
...and in the inmost circle of " Blue Stones " it is nineteen. DIODORUS relates : " They say, moreover, that APOLLO once in nineteen years comes into the...stars perform their courses and return to the same points, and therefore the Greeks call the revolutions of nineteen years the Great Year." i Three different... | |
 | Harold Bayley - Archaeology - 1920 - 936 pages
...nineteen was a highly mystic Hellenic number. Of the Hyperboreans Diodorus states : " They say, moreover, that Apollo once in nineteen years comes into the...stars perform their courses and return to the same points, and therefore the Greeks call the revolutions of nineteen years the Great Year ". Nineteen... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - Art - 2002 - 556 pages
...seems as if it were near to the earth, and represents, on the face of it, excrescences, like spots on the earth ; and that Apollo, once in nineteen years,...of his appearance they say that he plays upon the harp, and sings and dances all the night, from the vernal equinox f to the rising of thePleiadesJ,... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - History - 2007 - 537 pages
...seems as if it were near to the earth, and represents, on the face of it, excrescences, like spots on the earth ; and that Apollo, once in nineteen years,...of his appearance they say that he plays upon the harp, and sings and dances all the night, from the vernal equinox f to the rising of the PleiadesJ,... | |
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... the earth ; and that Apollo, once in nineteen years, comes into the island; in which space of time the stars perform their courses, and return to the same point; and therefore the Greeks call the revolution of nineteen years, the Great Year. 
