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I imagine that the word caverna, a cavern, was denominated originally Ca-Ouran, Domus Cœlestis, vel Domus Dei, from the supposed sanctity of such places.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759
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Exposición “El bosque y la caverna”, de Carlos A. Schwartz | [bauen]
Exposición “El bosque y la caverna”, de Carlos A. Schwartz | [bauen] 2009
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Exposición “El bosque y la caverna”, de Carlos A. Schwartz
Exposición “El bosque y la caverna”, de Carlos A. Schwartz | [bauen] 2009
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Hasta el 5 de julio se puede ver en la Sala de Arte Contemporáneo de Santa Cruz de Tenerife la exposición “El bosque y la caverna”, del arquitecto y fotógrafo tinerfeño Carlos A. Schwartz (1942).
Exposición “El bosque y la caverna”, de Carlos A. Schwartz | [bauen] 2009
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“Corto sul mito della caverna e la metafora del sole di Platone, da La repubblica.”
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Como esta caverna, que durante alguns minutos foi confundida com uma gruta real.
... Artur 2007
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Sepolta in una caverna dalla nascita, una povera creatura è infine raggiunta dai raggi del sole.
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E até administro a caverna onde os shoggoths se espongeiam sórdidamente.
Imagem do dia Artur 2006
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Let us take another word for cave, which is _cavea_ or _caverna_.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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He became abusive; Abelard was a crawling viper (coluber tortuosus) who had come out of his hole (egressus est de caverna sua), and after the manner of a hydra (in similitudinem hydrae), after having one head cut off at Soissons, had thrown out seven more.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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