An Introduction to the History of ReligionMethuen, 1896 - 443 sider |
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Side 14
... continued communion after death ( ch . xxiii . " The Mysteries " ) . In Greece this belief was diffused especially by the Eleusinian Mysteries ( ch . xxiv . “ The Eleusinia " ) . There remains the question , what we are to suppose to ...
... continued communion after death ( ch . xxiii . " The Mysteries " ) . In Greece this belief was diffused especially by the Eleusinian Mysteries ( ch . xxiv . “ The Eleusinia " ) . There remains the question , what we are to suppose to ...
Side 55
... on the living for their comfort and even for their continued existence , rather than vice versa ; in Egypt the ka was annihilated , if the survivors did not embalm the body of the deceased and make images of LIFE AND DEATH 55.
... on the living for their comfort and even for their continued existence , rather than vice versa ; in Egypt the ka was annihilated , if the survivors did not embalm the body of the deceased and make images of LIFE AND DEATH 55.
Side 70
... continued to protect itself by the interdict from fire and water , the object of which was probably in its origin rather to save those neces- saries of life from pollution than to punish the offender . As for the sick , the taboo on ...
... continued to protect itself by the interdict from fire and water , the object of which was probably in its origin rather to save those neces- saries of life from pollution than to punish the offender . As for the sick , the taboo on ...
Side 115
... continued for generations , for it is the religion of the tribe . The appearance of the animal is welcomed with rejoicing as the manifestation of the tribal deity , offerings are made to it , and , being free from molesta- tion , it ...
... continued for generations , for it is the religion of the tribe . The appearance of the animal is welcomed with rejoicing as the manifestation of the tribal deity , offerings are made to it , and , being free from molesta- tion , it ...
Side 121
... continued to exist . Thus , the sacred animal , whether it was still believed to be a blood - relation or not , received the same obsequies and was mummified in the 1 Frazer , 94 . same way as man ; and the killing by one SURVIVALS OF ...
... continued to exist . Thus , the sacred animal , whether it was still believed to be a blood - relation or not , received the same obsequies and was mummified in the 1 Frazer , 94 . same way as man ; and the killing by one SURVIVALS OF ...
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Abipones altar amongst ancestor ancestor-worship ancient animal totem Athenian Bastian become belief blood cause century B.C. ceremony chapter Chicomecoatl civilised clan clansmen communion consciousness corpse cult custom dead death deceased deity Demeter Dionysus divine Egypt Eleusinian Eleusinian mysteries Eleusis Ellis evolution existence explanation fact feast fetish flesh Frazer 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 meal Mensch monotheism moral mysteries myth natural offered original Orphic Persephone person plant Polynesia polytheism priest primitive Pythagorean race reason regarded religion 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 193 - 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 186 - 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 144 - 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 57 - 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 300 - Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed.
Side 100 - Indians invariably destroy this babracot, saying that should a tapir, passing that way, find traces of the slaughter of one of his kind, he would come by night on the next occasion, when Indians slept at that place, and, taking a man, would babracote him in revenge
Side 300 - ... world, each guarded by its porter, who admits the dead, stripping him of his apparel, but never allowing him to pass through them again to the upper world. Good and bad, heroes and plebeians, are alike condemned to this dreary lot ; a state of future rewards and punishments 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...
Side 221 - I rub my warts with raw meat and then bury the meat, the warts will decay and disappear with the decay and dissolution of the meat. In like manner my shirt or stocking, or a rag to represent it, placed upon a sacred bush, or thrust into a sacred well — my name written upon the walls of a temple — a stone or pellet from my hand cast upon a sacred image or a sacred cairn — a remnant of my food cast into a sacred waterfall or bound upon a sacred tree, or a nail from my hand driven into the trunk...
Side 272 - ... 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...
Side 415 - 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.