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Side 6
... least detained in its wanderings by a demon or sorcerer.1 In any of these cases the soul of the man - god is lost to his worshippers ; and with it their prosperity is gone and their very existence endangered . Even if they could arrange ...
... least detained in its wanderings by a demon or sorcerer.1 In any of these cases the soul of the man - god is lost to his worshippers ; and with it their prosperity is gone and their very existence endangered . Even if they could arrange ...
Side 9
... least this seems implied in the following passage , written by one who resided for some time at the court of the notorious Zulu tyrant Chaka , in the early part of the nineteenth century : " The extraordinary violence of the king's rage ...
... least this seems implied in the following passage , written by one who resided for some time at the court of the notorious Zulu tyrant Chaka , in the early part of the nineteenth century : " The extraordinary violence of the king's rage ...
Side 10
... least that it would render him so loathsome in the eyes of his people that they would with difficulty recognise him . In conse- quence he nominated his successor , holding as his opinion that sovereigns who should serve in all things as ...
... least that it would render him so loathsome in the eyes of his people that they would with difficulty recognise him . In conse- quence he nominated his successor , holding as his opinion that sovereigns who should serve in all things as ...
Side 18
... least that at the end of every period of eight years a new consecra- tion , a fresh outpouring of the divine grace , was regarded as necessary in order to enable them to discharge their civil and religious duties . For it was a rule of ...
... least that at the end of every period of eight years a new consecra- tion , a fresh outpouring of the divine grace , was regarded as necessary in order to enable them to discharge their civil and religious duties . For it was a rule of ...
Side 24
... least this is the conclusion to which the following evidence points . Accord- ing to the historian Berosus , who as a Babylonian priest spoke with ample knowledge , there was annually celebrated in Babylon a festival called the Sacaea ...
... least this is the conclusion to which the following evidence points . Accord- ing to the historian Berosus , who as a Babylonian priest spoke with ample knowledge , there was annually celebrated in Babylon a festival called the Sacaea ...
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amongst ancient animal annually appears Ash Wednesday Athamas Athenaeus Attis Baumkultus Bavaria believed blood body buried burned Cailleach called Carnival carried ceremony clothes Corn-mother corn-spirit crops custom dance dead deity Demeter Dionysus divine dressed eaten effigy Egyptian festival field figure fire firstborn flesh flowers Folk-lore Gebräuche girls goat gods hand harvest harvest customs head Herodotus human victim Ibid Indians Isis et Osiris Khond killed king king's Kostrubonko last corn last sheaf Lityerses Maiden maize Mannhardt moon myth Mythologie observed offered Old Woman Orchomenus Osiris Pausanias person Phrixus Phrygian plants Plutarch priest Proserpine puppet reapers reaping reign Religion represented resurrection rice rites round sacred sacrifice sacrificed Sagen Shrove Tuesday singing slain sometimes soul spirit of vegetation spring straw Summer supposed Tammuz temporary king threshing throw tree tree-spirit tribe village Volkskunde winter women worship young
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Side 46 - When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire...
Side 49 - Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Side 51 - But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat...
Side 50 - Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast : it is mine.
Side 51 - Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors : the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep : seven days it shall be with his dam ; on the eighth day thou shalt give It me.
Side 46 - Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Side 48 - And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Side 47 - And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan : and the land was polluted with blood.
Side 48 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.