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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 , Primilive 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 , Primilive 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 , » ? 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 , » ? 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 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 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 172 - In magic man depends on his own strength to meet the difficulties and dangers that beset him on every side. He believes in a certain established order of nature on which he can surely count, and which he can manipulate for his own ends.
Side 85 - It was remarked in Scotland : ' There is one opinion which many of them entertain, .... that a popish priest can cast out devils and cure madness, and that the Presbyterian clergy have no such power.
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 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 57 - There is no priestly order, and no persons who can properly be called priests. Any man can have access to some object of worship, and most men in fact do have it, either by discovery of their own or by knowledge imparted to them by those who have before employed it. If the object of worship, as in some sacrifices, is one common to the members of a community, the man who knows how to approach that object is in a way their priest and sacrifices for them all ; but it is in respect of that particular...
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.
Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | The Origin of Priesthood |
| Forfatter | Gunnar Landtman |
| Udgiver | Ekenaes printing Company, limited, 1905 |
| Oprindeligt fra | Harvard University |
| Digitaliseret | 13. mar 2008 |
| Længde | 217 sider |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |