 Even as a wind carrieth the chaff about the sacred threshingfloors when men are winnowing, what time golden Demeter, in rush of wind, maketh division of grain and chaff." . . . Now the name of the "god of wind, and weather, rain, harvest and vegetation...  Myth, Ritual and Religion - Page 276by Andrew Lang - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1883 - 560 pages
...rallied and stood to face the Achaians: and the Argives withstood them in close array and fled not. Even as a wind carrieth the chaff about the sacred...threshing-floors when men are winnowing, what time golden-haired Demeter in rush of wind maketh division of grain and chaff, and so the chaff-heaps grow... | |
 | Homer - 1897 - 524 pages
...rallied and stood to face the Achaians: and the Argives withstood them in close array and fled not. Even as a wind carrieth the chaff about the sacred...threshing-floors when men are winnowing, what time golden-haired Demeter in rush of wind maketh division of grain and chaff, and so the chaff-heaps grow... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1903 - 534 pages
...rallied and stood to face the Achaians : and the Argives withstood them in close array and fled not. Even as a wind carrieth the chaff about the sacred...threshing-floors when men are winnowing, what time golden-haired Demeter in rush of wind maketh division of grain and chaff, and so the chaff-heaps grow... | |
 | Homer - 1905 - 364 pages
...rallied and stood to face the Achaians : and the Argives withstood them in close array and fled not. Even as a wind carrieth the chaff about the sacred threshing-floors when men are winnowing, and the chaff-heaps grow white — so now grew the Achaians white with falling dust which in their... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Classical literature - 1909 - 478 pages
...rallied and stood to face the Achaians: and the Argives withstood them in close array and fled not. Even as a wind carrieth the chaff about the sacred...threshing-floors when men are winnowing, what time goldenhaired Demeter in rush of wind maketh division of grain and chaff, and so the chaff-heaps grow... | |
 | Homer, Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, Ernest Myers - 1915 - 670 pages
...rallied and stood to face the Achaians: and the Argives withstood them in close array and fled not. Even as a wind carrieth the chaff about the sacred...threshing-floors when men are winnowing, what time golden-haired Demeter in rush of wind maketh division of grain and chaff, and so the chaff-heaps grow... | |
 | Homer - 1921 - 526 pages
...rallied and stood to face the Achaians : and the Argives withstood them in close array and fled not Even as a wind carrieth the chaff about the sacred...threshing-floors when men are winnowing, what time golden-haired Demeter in rush of wind maketh division of grain and chaff, and so the chaff-heaps grow... | |
 | James George Frazer - Ancestor worship - 1922 - 470 pages
...who were in peril on the great deep. 2 Another god was Alo Alo, whose name means " to fan." He was the god of wind and weather, rain, harvest, and vegetation in general. When the weather was seasonable, he was usually invoked about once a month to induce him to keep on... | |
 | James George Frazer - Ancestor worship - 1922 - 472 pages
...who were in peril on the great deep. 2 Another god was Alo Alo, whose name means " to fan." He was the god of wind and weather, rain, harvest, and vegetation in general. When the weather was seasonable, he was usually invoked about once a month to induce him to keep on... | |
 | 1927 - 514 pages
...his scenes of harvest time. The first we find in the « Iliad » occurs in Book 5, lines 499-505. « Even as a wind carrieth the chaff about the sacred...threshing-floors when men are winnowing, what time golden-haired Demeter in rush of wind maketh division of grain and chaff, and so the chaff-heaps grow... | |
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