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

Filed across the traditions

Greek Fox 17, Grote I 62
Hindu Keith 105, Penzer IV 240 n. 1, VII 1 n. 5
Chinese Ferguson 33.
general **Encyc. Religion and Ethics s.v. "Ages of the World". – Irish myth: Cross

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