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The hot vapour lapped round the earthborn Titans: flame unspeakable rose to the bright upper air: the flashing glare of the thunder-stone and lightning blinded their eyes for all that there were strong.
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(_Artemisia_), which was hung above the door in the place occupied at other times by the winged disk, the thunder-stone, or a crocodile
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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Artemisia, was hung above the door, [354] just as the winged disk was sculptured upon the lintel, or the thunder-stone was placed above the door of the cowhouse [355] to afford the protection of the Great Mother's powers of life-giving to her own cattle.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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The hot vapour lapped round the earthborn Titans: flame unspeakable rose to the bright upper air: the flashing glare of the thunder-stone and lightning blinded their eyes for all that there were strong.
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The thunder-stone was placed over the lintel of the cow-shed for the same purpose as the winged disk over the door of an Egyptian temple.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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It is said that at Novgorod there used to stand an image of Perun in the likeness of a man with a thunder-stone in his hand.
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It is said that at Novgorod there used to stand an image of Perun in the likeness of a man with a thunder-stone in his hand.
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The battle waxed so fell that the carrack also might have been worked by men who had all to win and naught to lose, and captained by one who bared his brow to the thunder-stone.
Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903
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Thy forgiveness was in the thunder-stone; in the shower of blood; in the angry red of the sunset.
Fruit-Gathering Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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It is said that at Novgorod there used to stand an image of Perun in the likeness of a man with a thunder-stone in his hand.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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