. The evolution of the dragon. hns Eve (Rendel Harris, op. cit., p. 91) : the people ofZante use vervain in the same way ; the people of France (Creuse et Cor-reres) rye-stalks ; Eves fig-leaves; in Vedic India the initiate wore the cincture of Mungas herbs ; and Kali had her girdle of hands. Breasted,( Religion and 1 bought in Ancient Egypt, p. 29) says : In the oldestfragments we hear of Isis the great, -who fastened on the girdle in Khemmis,when she brought her Icenserl and burned incense before her son Horus , THE BIRTH Ox^ APHRODITE 155 feature of Aphrodites character as a goddess of love
. The evolution of the dragon. hns Eve (Rendel Harris, op. cit., p. 91) : the people ofZante use vervain in the same way ; the people of France (Creuse et Cor-reres) rye-stalks ; Eves fig-leaves; in Vedic India the initiate wore the cincture of Mungas herbs ; and Kali had her girdle of hands. Breasted,( Religion and 1 bought in Ancient Egypt, p. 29) says : In the oldestfragments we hear of Isis the great, -who fastened on the girdle in Khemmis,when she brought her Icenserl and burned incense before her son Horus , THE BIRTH Ox^ APHRODITE 155 feature of Aphrodites character as a goddess of love is intimatelybound up with these conceptions which developed from the wearingof a girdle of cowries. In the Biblical naiTative, after Adam and Eve had eaten the for-bidden fruit, the eyes of them both were opened, and they knewthat they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together and madethemselves aprons, or, as the Revised Version expresses it, girdle of fig-leaves, however, was originally a surrogate of the.
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