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The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Second Series) October 1926

1926

One is found on a pillar in the interior of the small Chandra S'Ekara shrine at the south-east of the royal enclosure ; the other on a'hother pillar in one of the mandapas in the enclosure of Vitthalaswamy temple. [...] The belief seems to be connected with the worship of 'animal-gods or sacred animals the worshipper being changed into an animal by being invested with the skin of the creature by the utterance of magical words the making of magical gestures the wearing of a magical object or the performance of magical ceremonies. [...] Roughly speaking we may say that the country of the Sacae was formed by the irregular tract of land on the headwaters of the Oxus and the watershed between it and the Jaxartes a tract which included a portion of the drainage of the Indus. [...] The Asiatic Ethiopia extended from the Tigris to the Indus and was the Cusha-Dwipa within of the Purdpas the African Ethiopia being the Cusha-Dwipa without. [...] It was the land in all probability to the north of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov the land through which the Borysthenes (Dnieper) and the Tanais (Don) made their way to the Black Sea.
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Frontmatter
i-vi F. R. Sell, K. Devanathachariar view
Historical Carvings at Vijayanagara
85-88 Rev. Heras view
The Oti Cult or Magic and Religion
89-93 K. Raja view
The Seven Dwipas of the Puranas
94-105 V. Iyer view
The Growth of Art in Europe
106-124 Bhavachitra Siromani, N. Rqam view
Kalidasa and Bhasa in the Light of some Western Criticisms
125-142 C. K. Ramayya view
Studies in Bird-Myths No. Xi-On an Aetiological Myth about the Indian House-Crow
143-144 Sarat Mitra view
Studies in Bird-Myths No. X is.—On three Aetiological Myths about the Spots on the Peacock’s Tail-Feathers
145-147 Sarat Mitra view
Myths Regarding the origin of Sex
148-149 P. K. Gode view
“A Life in the Indian Civil Service”
150-158 S. Srikantaiya view
Reviews
159-161 M.V. view
Annual Report of the Archaeological Department for the year 1925
161-162 S. S. view
Backmatter
i-viii unknown view

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