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Side 9
... powers seems to be nearly unknown . » Yet he admits that in the South -
Eastern regions of the continent » some faint beginnings of religion appear in the
shape of a slight regard for the comfort of departed 1 Tylor , Primitive Culture , i .
425 .
... powers seems to be nearly unknown . » Yet he admits that in the South -
Eastern regions of the continent » some faint beginnings of religion appear in the
shape of a slight regard for the comfort of departed 1 Tylor , Primitive Culture , i .
425 .
Side 10
Even Lord Avebury owns that there seems to be no degraded race without » a
more or less vague belief in witchcraft , » 2 and he thinks that » divination and
sorcery are so widely distributed that they may almost be said to have been
universal ...
Even Lord Avebury owns that there seems to be no degraded race without » a
more or less vague belief in witchcraft , » 2 and he thinks that » divination and
sorcery are so widely distributed that they may almost be said to have been
universal ...
Side 16
The want of uniformity between the accounts of the classes in Polynesia also
seems to indicate their undefined character . 1 Certain Polynesian and other
peoples supply instances of this kind . In Tahiti the bue raatira , or landed
proprietors ...
The want of uniformity between the accounts of the classes in Polynesia also
seems to indicate their undefined character . 1 Certain Polynesian and other
peoples supply instances of this kind . In Tahiti the bue raatira , or landed
proprietors ...
Side 23
1 In Primitive Culture Dr . Tylor gives a number of instances showing how » to the
minds of the lower races it seems that all nature is possessed , pervaded ,
crowded , with spiritual beings , » many of which are considered directly to affect
the ...
1 In Primitive Culture Dr . Tylor gives a number of instances showing how » to the
minds of the lower races it seems that all nature is possessed , pervaded ,
crowded , with spiritual beings , » many of which are considered directly to affect
the ...
Side 45
Whole tribes also very frequently worship the spirits of departed men , but it
would seem that in this case the ancestral gods tend ... In general it seems that
men who have in some extraordinary way risen to fame in a community , are
likely to be ...
Whole tribes also very frequently worship the spirits of departed men , but it
would seem that in this case the ancestral gods tend ... In general it seems that
men who have in some extraordinary way risen to fame in a community , are
likely to be ...
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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.
Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | The Origin of Priesthood |
| Forfatter | Gunnar Landtman |
| Udgiver | Ekenaes printing Company, limited, 1905 |
| Oprindeligt fra | Harvard University |
| Digitaliseret | 30. jan 2008 |
| Længde | 217 sider |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |