The Origin of PriesthoodEkenaes printing Company, limited, 1905 - 217 sider |
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Side viii
... become a priest , pp . 75 sq .; professional priesthood evolved according to the growth of ritual observances , pp ... becoming a priest , pp . 90-92 ; tutelary spirits , pp . 92 sq .; the powers of priests communicated by the IX gods ...
... become a priest , pp . 75 sq .; professional priesthood evolved according to the growth of ritual observances , pp ... becoming a priest , pp . 90-92 ; tutelary spirits , pp . 92 sq .; the powers of priests communicated by the IX gods ...
Side 6
... becomes clear that in most cases they are to be regarded as subdivisions or combi- nations of the chief classes . 1 Instances of such peoples are given by : Wilson and Felkin , Uganda und der Aegyptische Sudan , i . 96 ( Waganda ) ...
... becomes clear that in most cases they are to be regarded as subdivisions or combi- nations of the chief classes . 1 Instances of such peoples are given by : Wilson and Felkin , Uganda und der Aegyptische Sudan , i . 96 ( Waganda ) ...
Side 13
... become aware of the remarkable fact that priests and sorcerers everywhere differ from the mass of the population at an earlier period of culture than any of the lay classes . This conclusion may be drawn from the fact that priests or ...
... become aware of the remarkable fact that priests and sorcerers everywhere differ from the mass of the population at an earlier period of culture than any of the lay classes . This conclusion may be drawn from the fact that priests or ...
Side 15
... become aware of the universal fact that the priesthood everywhere differs in a peculiar way from the rest of the population . In classifying the mis- cellaneous ranks of a community we may hesitate when considering to which of them a ...
... become aware of the universal fact that the priesthood everywhere differs in a peculiar way from the rest of the population . In classifying the mis- cellaneous ranks of a community we may hesitate when considering to which of them a ...
Side 20
... become conspicuous when we compare this order with other classes . Different classes always presuppose each other in a certain way . We cannot form an idea of slaves p . 103 . 1 Maltzan , ' Sittenschilderungen aus Südarabien , ' in ...
... become conspicuous when we compare this order with other classes . Different classes always presuppose each other in a certain way . We cannot form an idea of slaves p . 103 . 1 Maltzan , ' Sittenschilderungen aus Südarabien , ' in ...
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Side 120 - Those who aspire to the office of juggler are said to sit upon an aged willow, overhanging some lake, and to abstain from food for several days, till they begin to see into futurity.
Side 154 - There can be little doubt but that the priest, on such occasions, often summons into action the deepest feelings of devotion of which he is susceptible, and by a voluntary act disposes his mind, as much as possible, to be powerfully affected; till at length, what began by volition proceeds by involuntary effort, and the whole mind and body become subjected to the overruling emotion.
Side 8 - I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
Side 133 - No less frequently priests and sorcerers who fail in performing miracles save their reputation by accusing other persons of having, by secret necromancies, frustrated their endeavours. Among the aborigines of New South Wales, " although the operations of the rain-maker so often result in failure, he is not in the least discouraged, and, like the doctors, invariably attributes his want of success to the counteracting influence of an enemy.
Side 121 - His imagination is worked upon by solitude, the contemplation of the gloomy aspect of surrounding nature, long vigils, fasts, the use of narcotics and stimulants, until he becomes persuaded that he too has seen the apparitions which he has heard of from his boyhood.
Side 104 - The term fahe-gehe means split off, separate, or distinct from, and is applied to signify a priest, or man, who has a peculiar or distinct sort of mind or -soul, differing from that of the generality of mankind, which disposes some god occasionally to inspire him.
Side 110 - An idiot or a fool is vulgarly regarded by them as a being whose mind is in heaven, while his grosser part mingles among ordinary mortals ; consequently, he is considered an especial favourite of heaven. Whatever enormities a reputed saint may commit (and there are many who are constantly infringing precepts of their religion), such acts do not affect his fame for sanctity : for they are considered as the results of...
Side 105 - Kafir-land that none of the children of a prophet can succeed their parent in that profession. It is believed that the requisite discernment and power are denied to them, but may frequently appear in their descendants of the second generation.
Side 177 - It is true that magic often deals with spirits, which are personal agents of the kind assumed by religion ; but whenever it does so in its proper form, it treats them exactly in the same fashion as it treats inanimate agents, that is, it constrains or coerces instead of conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do.
Side 151 - As has happened in Europe and elsewhere, in the presence of torture and the instant advance of death, the sorcerer and sorceress will not only confess, but even boast of and believe in, their own criminality. ' Verily I slew such a one ! — I brought about the disease of such another ! ' — these are their demented vaunts, the offspring of mental imbecility, stimulated by traditional hallucination.