The four ages of the world. A development of the present order through four stages or periods, the golden, silver, bronze, and iron ages, or the like

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The four ages of the world. A development of the present order through four stages or periods, the golden, silver, bronze, and iron ages, or the like.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Establishment of natural order. · view the constellation · filed as A1101

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

GreekFox 17, Grote I 62
HinduKeith 105, Penzer IV 240 n. 1, VII 1 n. 5
ChineseFerguson 33.
general **Encyc. Religion and Ethics s.v. "Ages of the World". – Irish myth: Cross

Within the index

Filed under Establishment of natural order.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Golden age. A former age of perfection Reversal of nature in former age

Filed beside it

Why powers of nature work on Sabbath Nature transformed by God once in seven years

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