Völkerstämme am Brahmaputra und verwandtschaftliche Nachbarn: Reise-Ergebnisse und Studien

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F. Dümmlers verlagsbuchhandlung, 1883 - 130 sider
 

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Side 16 - ... haunts, to the fields he cultivated, to the grove he planted, to the threshing-floor where he worked, to the village dance-room where he made merry. At last they are taken to the grave, and buried in an earthen vase upon a store of food, covered with one of those huge stone slabs which European visitors wonder at in the districts of the aborigines of India.
Side xxiv - Zeus04) heisst jüngster der Götter (bei Hesiod). Nach Manilius bezeichneten die Novensiles (Novensides), die neuen Götter, welchen Jupiter die Erlaubniss gab Blitze zu schleudern, (s. Arnob). In der Vervielfältigung65) (des Jus pontificium) zählt Varro „trecentos Joves
Side xliv - Ambrogio Traversari, der die Zeit zwischen den sacris literis und den studiis humanitatis zu theilen räth, preist Nicoli (1438) als totius humanitatis condimentum. 8) Im Verhältniss zu den Schriftwerken (literarischen Denkmäler) bilden (für die griechischen Mythen) die Kunstdenkmäler „nur eine untergeordnete, ergänzende Klasse von Quellen" (K. 0. Müller), wogegen ethnologische Sammlungen die Quelle selbst. Classici dicebantur non omnes, qui in classibus erant, sed primae tantum classis homines...
Side lx - Ceterum neque animadvertere neque vincire, ne verberare quidem, nisi sacerdotibus permissum ; non quasi in poenam, nee ducis jussu, sed velut deo imperante, quem adesse bellantibus credunt : effigiesque et signa quaedam, detracta lucis, in proelium ferunt.
Side l - Ego ista conicere 186 putari debui, nisi evidenter alio loco ipse diceret de religionibus loquens multa esse vera, quae non modo vulgo scire non sit utile, sed etiam, tametsi falsa sunt, aliter existimare populum expédiât, et ideo Graecos teletas ac mysteria taciturnitate parietibusque clausisse. Hic certe totum consilium prodidit velut sapientium, per quos civitates et populi regerentur.
Side 16 - ... of the egg-shell upwards, count as signs. The egg is personified and addressed after this manner ; Egg ! I am only a man, am ignorant and can divine nothing ; you can commune with spirits, and between man and them have intercourse. Now, say ! who has done this ? (in case of sickness) — who has caused this man to fall sick ? If the spirit is in the house, let the signs be on the left ; if out of the house, on the right. The exorcist spits on the egg, and taking some clay in his hand, smears...
Side 27 - Häuptlingsrang (bei den Guarani) was hereditary, but men also rose to it by their eloquence and their valour, for a good orator, if he had the reputation of courage, obtained influence enough, to form an independent Community (s. Southey). In pace nullus communis magistratus (bei Germanen). The authority of the chiefs is rather nominal, than positive, more advisory, than compulsive, and relies more upon personal influence, than investment of offlce ^bei den Comauches).
Side 120 - ... defensible in jurisprudence than in any other region of thought. It would seem antecedently that we ought to commence with the simplest social forms in a state as near as possible to their rudimentary condition. In other words, if we followed the course usual in such inquiries, we should penetrate as far up as we could in the history of primitive societies.
Side lvii - Apud hos generali nomine rex appellatur Hendinos, et ritu veteri potestate deposita removetur, si sub eo fortuna titubaverit belli, vel segetum copiam negaverit terra, ut soient Aegyptii casus eius modi suis assignare rectoribus.
Side 75 - little models of animals are made in flour and butter and the evil spirit is implored to enter these models which are then burnt." The Tibetans court promiscuous intercourse between their families and the Kashmir merchants who travers their country (s. Hooker). The practice of making over their wives to their subordinates herrscht unter den Jungpen bei Darjiling (s. Eden). Die in Rong und Khamba (mit der Herrscherfamilie) zerfallenden Lepcha sandten (gemeinsam mit den Butia) nach Kham zu den Tibetern1)...

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