Searching...
Showing 1-20
Passages similar to: Bundahishn — Chapter XV
1
Source passage
Bundahishn
Chapter XV (16)
And they dug out a pit in the earth, and iron was obtained by them and beaten out with a stone, and without a forge they beat out a cutting edge from it; and they cut wood with it, and prepared a wooden shelter from the sun (pês-khûr).
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XI (23)
And in the first year of the fifth week Abram taught those who made implements for oxen, the artificers in wood, and they made a vessel above the grou...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XI (24)
And after this manner they made (vessels) above the ground on all the frames of the ploughs, and they sowed and tilled all the land, according as Abra...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter X (20)
And they began to build, and in the fourth week they made brick with fire, and the bricks served them for stone, and the clay with which they cemented...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet II (9)
You were born and raised in the wilderness, a lion leaped up on you, so you have experienced it all! [5 lines are fragmentary] I will undertake it...
Book of Enoch
Chapter IV (1)
And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with growing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or ...
Book of Enoch
Chapter VIII (1)
And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals 〈of the earth〉 and the art of worki...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: That the Inventors of Other Arts Were Mostly Barbarians. (4)
Kelmis and Damnaneus, Idaean Dactyli, first discovered iron in Cyprus. Another Idaean discovered the tempering of brass; according to Hesiod, a...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LIV (3)
And there mine eyes saw how they made these their instruments, iron chains of immeasurable weight.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXVI (5)
And all the ravines were deep ⌈⌈and narrow⌉⌉, (being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon them.
Chapter 17: Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the corrupt perished Nature, and Original of the four Elements, instead of the holy Government of God. (16)
So in like manner the earth and stones have their descent; for when the Salitter kindled itself in nature, then all became very rugged, thick and dark...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (33)
Primordial water He extracted from the air. He formed therein twenty-two letters and established them out of mud and loam, making them like a border, ...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIV (24)
Arid they digged a well and they found living water.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XIV (17)
And he awoke from his sleep, and he arose, and the sun had set ; and there was a flame, and behold a furnace was smoking, and a flame of fire passed b...
Popol Vuh
Part III, Chapter 9 (4)
Before the sun rose, damp and muddy was the surface of the earth, before the sun came up; but then the sun rose, and came up like a man. And its heat...
Popol Vuh
Part II, Chapter 10 (3)
Presently they [the boys] entered into the midst of fire in the House of Fire, inside which there was only fire; but they were not burned. Only the...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (3)
On the first day God drave together (or compacted) the corrupt Salitter, which so came to be in the kindling of his wrath, I say, God then drave it...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet XI (3)
I will go down to the Apsu to live with my lord, Ea, and upon you he will rain down abundance, a profusion of fowl, myriad(!) fishes. He will bring...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter VIII (3)
And he found a writing which former (generations) had carved on the rock, and he read what was thereon, and he transcribed it and sinned owing to it ;...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (7)
Out of the earth sprang up grass, herbs and trees; and in the earth, silver, gold, and all manner of ores came to be; and in the deep above the earth...
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 3 (3)
This was to punish them because they had not thought of their mother, nor their father, the Heart of Heaven, called Huracán. And for this reason the...
1