Mythical Monsters

Charles Gould, geological surveyor of Tasmania, spent 400 pages and 93 engravings arguing that dragons, sea-serpents and unicorns are not inventions but memories — real animals, seen, feared, and distorted by time.

The Deluge Not a Myth

12 pages in this part of Mythical Monsters.

The Deluge Not a Myth

If we assume that the antiquity of man is as great, or even approximately as great, as Sir Charles Lyell and his followers affirm, the…

The Deluge Not a Myth: Dynasty

FIG. 22. ROYAL DIADEM OF THE CHEN DYNASTY. (From the San Li T'u.) † An interesting line of investigation might be opened up as to the…

The Deluge Not a Myth: Acculee

THESE MARKS O SHEW WHERE THE BOOTHIANS ERECT HUTS TO SLEEP IN ON THEIR JOURNAY TO ACCULEE MELVILLE PENINSULA LARGE RIVER ACCULEE FIG. 29…

The Deluge Not a Myth: Chinese

There is but a little step between carving the figure of a mammoth or horse, and using them as symbols. Multiply them, and you have the…

The Deluge Not a Myth: Mongols

Perched on an eminence, and based on solid rock, it may escape entombment, but more swiftly and more certainly will * "The work of…

The Deluge Not a Myth: Lenormant

M. Lenormant, upon the other hand, eliminating from the inquiry the great inundation of China in the reign of Yao, and some others, as…

The Deluge Not a Myth: Biblical

We have as data :- 1. The Biblical account. 2. That of Josephus. 3. The Babylonian. 4. The Hindu. 5. The Chinese. 6. The traditions of all…

The Deluge Not a Myth: Berosus

The tradition, however reverenced and faithfully preserved at first, would, under such circumstances, soon get mutilated and dwarfed. We…

The Deluge Not a Myth: Egyptian

Philologists at the same time declare that a similar inference may be drawn from the vast periods requisite for the divergence of different…

The Deluge Not a Myth: Canton

A typhoon which raged in Canton, Hongkong, and Macao on September 22, 1874, besides much other destruction, destroyed several thousand…

The Deluge Not a Myth: China

There has been much discussion as to whether the great inundation which occurred in China during the reign of Yao is identical with that of…

The Deluge Not a Myth: K'wan

But neither in the Bamboo Books nor in the Shu-king do we find that any local phenomena of importance occurred, with the exception of the…

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