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Murals and stucco rain-god masks are the highlights to seek out at Lambityeco.
The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day... 2005
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Murals and stucco rain-god masks are the highlights to seek out at Lambityeco.
The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day... 2005
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She went on, coming at last around behind the statue of the rain-god that stood at the far end of the room.
The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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When she got them as far as the open door of the temple, her own strength gave out, and she stopped to rest, half-collapsed against the smiling image of the rain-god.
The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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The god who was most often depicted upon the ancient Maya and Aztec codices was the Indian rain-god Indra, who in America was provided with the head of the Indian elephant [137] (i.e. seems to have been confused with the Indian Ganesa) and given other attributes more suggestive of the Dravidian Nâga than his enemy, the Aryan deity.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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For in the course of investigating the meaning of these remarkable designs I discovered that the Elephant-headed rain-god of America had attributes identical with those of the Indian Indra (and of Varuna and Soma) and the Chinese dragon.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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The rain-god was appealed to -- still no rain came.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith
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Osiris himself who fought originally; and in many of the non-Egyptian variants of the legend it is the rain-god himself who is the warrior.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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The snake and the dragon can be either the rain-god of the East or the enemy of the rain-god; either the dragon-slayer or the evil dragon who has to be slain.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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In Dravidian India the rulers and the gods are identified with the serpent: but among the Aryans, who were hostile to the Dravidians, the rain-god is the enemy of the Nâga.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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