The Adoration of the Magi

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1. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero · Otto Rank

   And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things which they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.” We now …

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2. Religious art in France, 13 century · Emile Mâle

   or in what place it is not known, but if it were by ad- 227 RELIGIOUS ART IN FRANCE through windows at Lyons1 and Le Mans,2 to a tympanum in the north porch of the cathedral at Chartres (Fig. in) and to the beautiful fragment of the old jube, now in the crypt (Fig. 112). Why again is Jesus re- presented as fastened to the Cross by four nails until the end of the twelfth century, and from the thirteenth by three only ? Books give no answer, and all …

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3. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero · Otto Rank

   Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and _slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under_, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men. But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: _for …

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4. Religious art in France, 13 century · Emile Mâle

   2 of the Magi, is first alluded to by Tertullian who teaches that the kings of Arabia and Sheba spoken of in the Psalms are a figure of the Magi (Adversus Marcionem, III., xiii., Adversus Judeeos, ix., and De idolatria, ix.). But it was not until the fifth century in a treatise of Maximus of Turin and in the sixth in Caesarius of Aries that they really became kings. And it was not until the tenth century that artists began to represent the Magi as crowned kings, the earliest example …

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5. Religious art in France, 13 century · Emile Mâle

   near Venice. 5 Cap. XVI. A/ See,T^e^Sj 'Irait* d" suPfrstiti™s> antl B. de « Leg. aurea. De Innocent., X., and De Epiphania Montault Bullet, monum., 1884, p. 722. Domini, xiv. [Golden Legend. The Holy Innocents, Ludolph, Vita Chnsti, cap. XI. ;;. I;6, and The Epiphany, i. 41.] 212 OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY It is there related that the Magi were three in number, that their names were Jaspar,1 Balthasar and Melchior, and that they were not only magi but kings. In their different countries they were in the habit of …

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6. The Golden Bough · James George Frazer

   In this he may have been mistaken. If Adonis was indeed, as I have argued, the spirit of the corn, a more suitable name for his dwelling-place could hardly be found than Bethlehem, "the House of Bread," and he may well have been worshipped there at his House of Bread long ages before the birth of Him who said, "I am the bread of life." Even on the hypothesis that Adonis followed rather than preceded Christ at Bethlehem, the choice of his sad figure to divert the allegiance of Christians …

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