An Introduction to the History of ReligionMethuen, 1896 - 443 sider |
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Side 63
... sacred river Reiti in Attica were themselves , like the stream , sacred to Demeter , 5 and might be caught by her priests alone . In Phare ( a town of Achæa ) there was a stream sacred to Hermes , the fish of which , as being sacred to ...
... sacred river Reiti in Attica were themselves , like the stream , sacred to Demeter , 5 and might be caught by her priests alone . In Phare ( a town of Achæa ) there was a stream sacred to Hermes , the fish of which , as being sacred to ...
Side 64
... sacred soil would become taboo and unfit thereafter for daily use . In the same way in Tonga , the upper garment was removed in the presence of the king , because his glance would render it taboo , and therefore useless afterwards . 2 ...
... sacred soil would become taboo and unfit thereafter for daily use . In the same way in Tonga , the upper garment was removed in the presence of the king , because his glance would render it taboo , and therefore useless afterwards . 2 ...
Side 65
... sacred to or set apart for the offering of sacrifice to a local god , the inhabitants abstain from all work , smear their bodies with white clay , and wear white cloths in sign of rejoicing . ” 5 On the Slave Coast , " every general ...
... sacred to or set apart for the offering of sacrifice to a local god , the inhabitants abstain from all work , smear their bodies with white clay , and wear white cloths in sign of rejoicing . ” 5 On the Slave Coast , " every general ...
Side 66
... sacred function ) , or before a great feast , a taboo- day or days are proclaimed ; no one may cook food , no fire or light may be kindled , no one may go outside of his house , no domestic animal may utter a sound ( dogs are muzzled ...
... sacred function ) , or before a great feast , a taboo- day or days are proclaimed ; no one may cook food , no fire or light may be kindled , no one may go outside of his house , no domestic animal may utter a sound ( dogs are muzzled ...
Side 73
... sacred blood from being spilled on the ground . Thus in Angoy the blood of royal women may not be shed , and if they have to be put to death , their ribs must be broken.2 In Dahomi , in 1818 , Gezo dethroned Adanlosan , and " as the ...
... sacred blood from being spilled on the ground . Thus in Angoy the blood of royal women may not be shed , and if they have to be put to death , their ribs must be broken.2 In Dahomi , in 1818 , Gezo dethroned Adanlosan , and " as the ...
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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.