An Introduction to the History of ReligionMethuen, 1896 - 443 sider |
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Side 24
... present day many savages are in the habit of making rain to fall , the wind to blow , or the sun to stand still ; and they do not consider the power of producing these results to be super- natural . In Africa rain - makers are to be ...
... present day many savages are in the habit of making rain to fall , the wind to blow , or the sun to stand still ; and they do not consider the power of producing these results to be super- natural . In Africa rain - makers are to be ...
Side 39
... present stage of development is higher , however , than that in which they were when the belief first appeared amongst them . In fine , the triumph of magic , where it was complete , is itself a considerable presumption that the ...
... present stage of development is higher , however , than that in which they were when the belief first appeared amongst them . In fine , the triumph of magic , where it was complete , is itself a considerable presumption that the ...
Side 44
... presents the appearance of an almost lifeless body ; or it is the blood , because " the blood is the life , " and when blood is shed , life departs . Or , finally , it may at one and the same time be all these things ; and so a man may ...
... presents the appearance of an almost lifeless body ; or it is the blood , because " the blood is the life , " and when blood is shed , life departs . Or , finally , it may at one and the same time be all these things ; and so a man may ...
Side 49
... Presents and sacrificial gifts are made to it . Toys and useful implements are tied to the doll for its use . ' " 3 In Guinea , so far from being afraid of the dead man , they keep him for a whole year or even several years in the house ...
... Presents and sacrificial gifts are made to it . Toys and useful implements are tied to the doll for its use . ' " 3 In Guinea , so far from being afraid of the dead man , they keep him for a whole year or even several years in the house ...
Side 50
... present day in the Tirol the corpse is always conveyed to the cemetery by the high - road , in order that the souls may have no difficulty in retracing the route . Or care is taken to catch the soul as soon as possible , so that it may ...
... present day in the Tirol the corpse is always conveyed to the cemetery by the high - road , in order that the souls may have no difficulty in retracing the route . Or care is taken to catch the soul as soon as possible , so that it may ...
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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.