An Introduction to the History of ReligionMethuen, 1902 - 443 sider |
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Side 7
... dead controversies . Writers approaching the relig subject from such different points of view as Professorning Call me Tylor , Max Müller , Ratzel , de Quatrefages , Tiele , Waitz , Gerland , Peschel , all agree that there are no races ...
... dead controversies . Writers approaching the relig subject from such different points of view as Professorning Call me Tylor , Max Müller , Ratzel , de Quatrefages , Tiele , Waitz , Gerland , Peschel , all agree that there are no races ...
Side 45
... dead , there is un- certainty whether the soul is for ever fled ; there is the possibility that it may return . " It is in consequence of the belief , " amongst the Ewe - speaking peoples of the Slave Coast , " that the soul does ...
... dead , there is un- certainty whether the soul is for ever fled ; there is the possibility that it may return . " It is in consequence of the belief , " amongst the Ewe - speaking peoples of the Slave Coast , " that the soul does ...
Side 46
... dead ) with uncooked rice , and ( set forth as offerings to him ) packets of raw flesh . " At this point perhaps it is fitting that I should frankly state to the reader what is my object in making these quotations and those which I am ...
... dead ) with uncooked rice , and ( set forth as offerings to him ) packets of raw flesh . " At this point perhaps it is fitting that I should frankly state to the reader what is my object in making these quotations and those which I am ...
Side 47
... dead . Who will take care of me ? ' " 2 Amongst the negroes of the Gold Coast , " no sooner has the breath left the body than a loud wailing cry bursts forth from the house , and the women rush into the streets with disordered clothes ...
... dead . Who will take care of me ? ' " 2 Amongst the negroes of the Gold Coast , " no sooner has the breath left the body than a loud wailing cry bursts forth from the house , and the women rush into the streets with disordered clothes ...
Side 48
... dead . " Thus we read of the Mandan women going year after year to take food to the skulls of their dead kinsfolk , and sitting by the hour to chat and jest in their most endearing strain with the relics of a husband or child ; thus the ...
... dead . " Thus we read of the Mandan women going year after year to take food to the skulls of their dead kinsfolk , and sitting by the hour to chat and jest in their most endearing strain with the relics of a husband or child ; thus the ...
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Abipones altar amongst ancestor ancestor-worship ancient animal totem Athenian Bastian become belief blood cause ceremony chapter Chicomecoatl civilised clan clansman communion consciousness corpse cult custom dead death deceased deity Demeter Dionysus divine Egypt Eleusinian Eleusinian mysteries Eleusis Ellis evolution existence explanation external fact feast fetish flesh Frazer ghosts goddess gods Gold Coast Greece Greek Hades human Iacchus Ibid idea idol Indians individual individual totem inference instance institution killing king Loango magic maize man's Mensch monotheism moral mysteries myth natural offered original Orphic Persephone person plants Polynesia polytheism possessed priest primitive Pythagorean reason regarded religious rites ritual Robertson Smith sacramental sacred sacrifice Samoa savage Semites soul species spirit stage stone supernatural supernatural powers supposed Supra survival sympathetic magic taboo theory thiasus things taboo tion totem animal totemistic tree tribe Tshi-speaking unclean victim worship Zagreus Zeus καὶ
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Side 181 - Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the LORD.
Side 234 - Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods. What was obligatory or meritorious was the exact performance of certain sacred acts prescribed by religious tradition.
Side 258 - The priest is now possessed by his god, and all his words and actions are considered as no longer his own, but those of the deity who has entered into him. Shrill cries of " Koi au I Koi au / " " It is I ! It is I ! " fill the air, and the god is supposed thus to notify his approach.
Side 132 - The camel chosen as the victim is bound upon a rude altar of stones piled together, and when the leader of the band has thrice led the worshippers round the altar in a solemn procession accompanied with chants, he inflicts the first wound...
Side 174 - Many are given to witchcraft, and are deluded by the devil to believe that their life dependeth upon the life of such and such a beast (which they take unto them as their familiar spirit) and think that when that beast dieth they must die, when he is chased their hearts pant, when he is faint they are faint, nay it happeneth that by the devil's delusion they appear in the shape of that beast...
Side 284 - Here the shades of the great heroes of old sit each on his throne, crowned and terrible, rising up only to greet the coming among them of one like unto themselves . . . good and bad, heroes and plebeians, are alike condemned to this dreary lot ; a state of future punishments and rewards is as yet undreamed of ; moral responsibility ends with death. Hades is a land of forgetfulness and of darkness, where the good and evil deeds of this life are remembered no more ; and its occupants are mere shadows...
Side 49 - For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
Side 181 - Oh! my child, had I known you were going to die ! Of what use is it for me to survive you?' These and other doleful cries may be heard two hundred yards from the house ; and as you go near you find that they are accompanied by the most frantic expressions of grief, such as rending garments. tearing the hair, thumping the face and eyes, burning the body with small piercing firebrands, beating the head with stones till the blood runs ; and this they called an "offering of blood for the dead.
Side 399 - But of all the great religions of the world it is the Christian Church alone which is so far heir of all the ages as to fulfil the dumb, dim expectation of mankind; in it alone the sacramental meal commemorates, by ordinance of its Founder, the divine sacrifice which is a propitiation for the sins of all mankind.
Side 256 - ... he might not touch wheaten flour or leavened bread ; he might not touch or even name a goat, a dog,- raw meat, beans, and ivy ; he might not walk under a vine ; the feet of his bed had to be daubed with mud ; his hair could be cut only by a free man and with a bronze knife, and his hair and nails when cut had to be buried under a lucky tree...