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Dear Mr. Casaubon, In the course of an investigation which my researches into the character of the Etruscan "Involuti" have necessitated, I frequently encounter the root Kad, k2ad, or Qad. Any information which your learning can procure, and your kind courtesy can supply, will be warmly welcomed and duly acknowledged. Believe me, faithfully yours,
I am sorry to seem out of harmony with your ideas; but it is only a matter of seeming, for I have no doubt that the Etruscan Involuti are also Arkite, and that they do not, as Max Muller may be expected to intimate, represent the veiled or cloudy Dawns, but rather the Arkite Patriarchs. We thus, from different starting-places, arrive at the same goal, the Arkite solution of Bryant.
"Has it borne you one inch away from the gods of your life-long worship?" As she spoke, she bent slightly forward, and searched his bright eyes, as if therein floated his soul. "Indeed I can answer reverently, with my band upon my heart, Italy has given me a new worship, a goddess I never knew before. My divinity " "Belongs, sir, to the Dïï Involuti!
Are there not seasons when even the most orthodox wonder whether the Dii Involuti passed away for ever, with the pateræ and fibulæ that once rendered service in the classic shades of Chusium and Monte-pulciana? Scholarly in tastes, neither Mr.
I have often wondered what the Etrurians intended to personify in their Dii Involuti, before whose awful decrees all other gods bowed. Now I feel assured that the chief of the 'Shrouded Gods' is Duty, veiling her features with a silver-lined cloud, scorning to parley, but whose unbending figure signs our way an unerring pillar of cloud by day, of fire by night. Mr.
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