"Seed vessel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... This was, at the same time, the only vulnerable part of his body; and there was but one species of weapon which could be successfully employed in making any impression upon it. The fairies carefully hunted through the woods to find this weapon. It was the burr or seed vessel of the white pine. They gathered a quantity of this article, and waylaid Kwasind at a point on the river, where the red rocks jut into the water, forming rude castles—a point which he was accustomed to pass in his canoe. They waited a long time, making merry upon ...
— The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians • Henry R. Schoolcraft
... ingenious toys which our mothers and sisters improvised in order to amuse us? We took a walk into the country, and our eldest sister or our mother picked a wild poppy, turned its red petals back and encircled them with a thread, and stuck a sprig of grass into the seed vessel to represent a headdress of feathers. Here was a fresh and pretty doll (Fig. 1). Another day it was the season of lilacs. The children gathered branches by the armful, and from these the mother picked off ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 • Various
... intellect and reason first as self existent, 614-u. Egyptians recognized more than one Triad, 548-l. Egyptians recognized as gods the stars of the Zodiac, 458-l. Egyptians regarded the Universe as a great Deity composed of a. number of Gods, 459-u. Egyptians, seed vessel of the lotus a sacred symbol to the, 9-u. Egyptians taught reverence for One Supreme God 1,500 years before Moses, 364-l. Egyptians the tutors of the Greeks in religious dogma, 617-u. Egyptians worshipped fire, the river Nile and other elements, 459-u. Eight stars of the Gnostic ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... architecture the lotus is a fundamental form, and indeed it is said to be the main motive of the architecture of that civilization. The capitals of the column are modelled after one form or other of this plant. That of the Doric column is the seed vessel pressed flat. Earlier capitals are simple copies of the bell or seed vessel. The columns consisted of stalks of the plant grouped together. In other cases the leaves are used as ornaments. These orders were copied by the Greeks, ...
— The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races - An Interpretation • Sanger Brown, II
... n. an aboriginal word, Kamilaroi Dialect of New South Wales. [W. Ridley, 'Kamilaroi,' p. 25, derives it from Kulu, seed, but it is just as likely from Kolle, water.—J. Mathew.] A hollowed knot of a tree, used as a seed vessel, or for holding water. The word is applied to the excrescence on the tree as well as to the vessel; a bush hand has been heard to speak of ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris |
