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... straw , on which he mounted and delivered a long sermon to the people , exhorting them to serve the gods and promising to go to the gods and speak for the people . Then he took some of the perpetual fire which burned in front of the ...
... straw , on which he mounted and delivered a long sermon to the people , exhorting them to serve the gods and promising to go to the gods and speak for the people . Then he took some of the perpetual fire which burned in front of the ...
Side 61
... straw effigy of a monstrous bird with a long neck and a wooden beak , which is thrown into the water instead of the bearer . The wooden beak is afterwards nailed to the ridge of a barn , which it is sup- posed to protect against ...
... straw effigy of a monstrous bird with a long neck and a wooden beak , which is thrown into the water instead of the bearer . The wooden beak is afterwards nailed to the ridge of a barn , which it is sup- posed to protect against ...
Side 62
... straw , were led about the streets , and at last taken to the market - place , where they were chased up and down , shot and stabbed . Before falling they reeled about with strange gestures and spirted blood on the people from bladders ...
... straw , were led about the streets , and at last taken to the market - place , where they were chased up and down , shot and stabbed . Before falling they reeled about with strange gestures and spirted blood on the people from bladders ...
Side 63
... straw - man , made up to look like the Wild Man , is placed on a litter , and , accompanied by a great crowd , is taken to a pool into which it is thrown by the execu- tioner . The ceremony is called " burying the Carnival . " 1 In ...
... straw - man , made up to look like the Wild Man , is placed on a litter , and , accompanied by a great crowd , is taken to a pool into which it is thrown by the execu- tioner . The ceremony is called " burying the Carnival . " 1 In ...
Side 70
... straw - men , which are found to answer the purpose just as well . Colonel Dalton was told that in some of their villages the Bhagats " annually make an image of a man in wood , put clothes and ornaments on it , and present it before ...
... straw - men , which are found to answer the purpose just as well . Colonel Dalton was told that in some of their villages the Bhagats " annually make an image of a man in wood , put clothes and ornaments on it , and present it before ...
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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.