What is "phrygian"

Usage examples of "phrygian".

Phrygians call me the mother of the Gods: the Athenians, Minerva: the Cyprians, Venus: the Candians, Diana: the Sicilians Proserpina: the Eleusians, Ceres: some Juno, other Bellona, other Hecate: and principally the Aethiopians which dwell in the Orient, and the Aegyptians which are excellent in all kind of ancient doctrine, and by their proper ceremonies accustome to worship mee, doe call mee Queene Isis.

However obscured the history may be, I think the purport of it is plainly this, that the Hellenes, and Phrygians were of the Nephelim or Anakim race.

Quickly, Christa shifted to a delicately structured countermelody that hovered between the dorian and the phrygian mode, twined like a growing vine, reached out and enveloped Melinda.

Laconia, the fiery red, and the white Phrygian stone, intersected with veins of a sea-green hue: the mosaic paintings of the dome and sides represented the glories of the African and Italian triumphs.

Cybele and Atys, whom all admit to be Phrygian Gods, were very various.

Closing their ranks upon their losses, they determined to strike inland along the valley of the Maeander to the apostolic city of Laodicea, perched among the Phrygian mountains, and thus avoid the flood swollen rivers and shorten the distance, as the crow flies, to Antioch, where all were now impatient to arrive.

Cybele, Atys represented the Sun God in the Phrygian Mysteries of, 407-u.

Clover Lee rode in on the cantering Bubbles, this time appearing first in a costume of red, white and blue, with the Phrygian cap of Liberté on her head—"la belle France!

They indignantly rejected the notice and permission which was given them to retire, till the soldiers, provoked by their obstinate refusal, set fire to the building on all sides, and consumed, by this extraordinary kind of martyrdom, a great number of Phrygians, with their wives and children.

Here an armed band to which the Greeks give the name of Phrygian Curetes, in that it haply joins in the game of arms and springs up in measure all dripping with blood, shaking with its nodding the frightful crests upon the head, represents the Dictaean Curetes who, as the story is, erst drowned in Crete that infant cry of Jove, when the young band about the young babe in rapid dance arms in hand to measured tread beat brass on brass, that Saturn might not get him to consign to his devouring jaws and stab the mother to the heart with a never-healing wound.

She wears, at all times, an invisible coronet to which even the vilest Jacobin doffs his Phrygian hat.

Her lover, Agdistis, was immortalized through her generous and perpetual powers of lovelove that was celebrated by the Phrygian and later Lydian cultures, and then throughout the Mediterranean.

The Phrygian shepherd presenting to Venus the prize of beauty, the apple of discord.

The device was a white eagle on an azure field, in memory of the bird of Jove, which bore away Ganymede, the flower of the Phrygian race.

Midas was able to hide these ears under his Phrygian cap and his disgrace was known only to his barber.