...His wicked, bloodshot eyes and broadnose, his ample mouth and great fighting fangs only enhanced theclaim of this Adonis of the forest upon the affections of his shes... 
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
...It was some time before this Adonis was quite satisfied with himself...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
...When the Senegal Adonis caught sight of them, he assumed a jauntyair and advanced with politeness, as if to offer them the last news fromAfrica...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
...The worship of Adonis was practised by the Semitic peoples ofBabylonia and Syria, and the Greeks borrowed it from them as earlyas the seventh century before Christ...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...THE MYTH of Adonis was localised and his rites celebrated withmuch solemnity at two places in Western Asia...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Bothwere great seats of the worship of Aphrodite, or rather of herSemitic counterpart, Astarte; and of both, if we accept thelegends, Cinyras, the father of Adonis, was king...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Among the stories which were told of Cinyras, the ancestor ofthe priestly kings of Paphos and the father of Adonis, there aresome that deserve our attention...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...At all eventsAdonis is said to have reigned in Cyprus, and it appears to becertain that the title of Adonis was regularly borne by the sons ofall the Phoenician kings of the island...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The character of Tammuz or Adonis as a corn-spirit comes outplainly in an account of his festival given by an Arabic writer ofthe tenth century...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Gardens of Adonis are cultivated also by the Hindoos, with theintention apparently of ensuring the fertility both of the earthand of mankind...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The same motive probably explains the use ofgardens of Adonis at the marriage of Brahmans in the MadrasPresidency...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In Sardinia the gardens of Adonis are still planted in connexionwith the great midsummer festival which bears the name of St...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The correspondence of theseSardinian pots of grain to the gardens of Adonis seems complete,and the images formerly placed in them answer to the images ofAdonis which accompanied his gardens...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...John has replaced Adonis...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In Sicily gardens of Adonis are still sown in spring as well asin summer, from which we may perhaps infer that Sicily as well asSyria celebrated of old a vernal festival of the dead and risengod...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Though he does not expressly say so,Jerome seems to have thought that the grove of Adonis had beenplanted by the heathen after the birth of Christ for the purpose ofdefiling the sacred spot...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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