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...brazen in fleshliness. But when Jacinto, his Indian guide, led him through a blizzard to shelter in a secret, tribal, mountain cave, the Bishop honored the inscrutable and did not ask if the vibrant mystery of the place was, besides a buried river, some ceremonial monster, an infant-devouring serpent as legend said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...Unconscious," New York (1921), Thomas Seltzer; "Sea and Sardinia," New York (1921), Thomas Seltzer; "Aaron's Rod," New York (1922), Thomas Seltzer; "Fantasia and the Unconscious," New York (1922) Thomas Seltzer; "Glad Ghosts," Ernest Benn (1926); "Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine," Centaur-Press (1925); "The Plumed Serpent," London (1926), Martin Secker; "St. Maur, together with the Princess," London (1925), Martin Secker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDENER ISSUES FIRST LIST OF DESIDERATA IN MODERN POETRY--STUDENT SUPPORT SOLICITED | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

Levees crumbled in the night. Frosts added their malediction. Like a surly brown earth serpent uncoiling, the great river straightened its devious winding down a crow's-flight line of 600 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Deluge | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...August, Digger Gilbert T. Brewer returned from a trip down the Mississippi Valley, to Mexico City and South America via Panama, with extensive evidence of Norse expeditions having penetrated this continent thoroughly in pre-Columbus days. Some of Mr. Brewer's evidence: 1) Indian legends of huge serpents appearing on Lake Ontario. (Norse war galleys had low hulls, dragon prows, the sides hung with shields, like scales. 2) An Indian legend of a chief battling a serpent, slaying him and wearing his skin. (The Norsemen wore coats of chain mail.) 3) Disappearance of the Mound-builder civilization from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...years, causing little damage. It twitched in Mexico, terrifying peons in Tehuantepec, who, instead of realizing that a mild earthquake now and then is really a good thing for mankind as it safeguards against catastrophic shocks, moved sullenly toward the hills muttering about the return of Quetzalcoatl, the bird-serpent, and other ancient gods. . . . Also, the earth twitched sharply last week in Greece, in Chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Portents | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

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