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Side 32
... season . If the Lord of the Heavenly Hosts hitches up his garment above his knee , the weather will be wet and the heavy rains will spoil the harvest . If he lets it trail to his ankle a drought will be the consequence . But fine ...
... season . If the Lord of the Heavenly Hosts hitches up his garment above his knee , the weather will be wet and the heavy rains will spoil the harvest . If he lets it trail to his ankle a drought will be the consequence . But fine ...
Side 33
... season.2 The gilded plough with which the Siamese mock king opens the ploughing may be com- pared with the bronze ploughs which the Etruscans em- ployed at the ceremony of founding cities ; in both cases the use of iron was probably ...
... season.2 The gilded plough with which the Siamese mock king opens the ploughing may be com- pared with the bronze ploughs which the Etruscans em- ployed at the ceremony of founding cities ; in both cases the use of iron was probably ...
Side 51
... season , and the fruits of the earth would not ripen , the soothsayers enjoined it . At that time a great pillar of ... seasons became regular again . To avert the recurrence of such a calamity the wizards commanded the king to pour ...
... season , and the fruits of the earth would not ripen , the soothsayers enjoined it . At that time a great pillar of ... seasons became regular again . To avert the recurrence of such a calamity the wizards commanded the king to pour ...
Side 52
... seasons , and particularly when the savages have been at war with any nation , and return from their country without bringing home some prisoners of war , or the heads 1 J. Macdonald , Light in Africa , p . 156. In the text I have ...
... seasons , and particularly when the savages have been at war with any nation , and return from their country without bringing home some prisoners of war , or the heads 1 J. Macdonald , Light in Africa , p . 156. In the text I have ...
Side 54
... seasons of great peril or public calamity , as when the crops had failed or a pestilence was raging , to vow that they would sacrifice to the gods every creature , whether man or beast , that should be born in the following spring . To ...
... seasons of great peril or public calamity , as when the crops had failed or a pestilence was raging , to vow that they would sacrifice to the gods every creature , whether man or beast , that should be born in the following spring . To ...
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amongst ancient animal annually appears Ash Wednesday Athamas Athenaeus Attis Baumkultus Bavaria believed blood body buried burned Cailleach called Carnival carried ceremony clothes Corn-mother corn-spirit crops custom dance dead deity Demeter Dionysus divine dressed eaten effigy Egyptian festival field figure fire firstborn flesh flowers Folk-lore Gebräuche girls goat gods hand harvest harvest customs head Herodotus human victim Ibid Indians Isis et Osiris Khond killed king king's Kostrubonko last corn last sheaf Lityerses Maiden maize Mannhardt moon myth Mythologie observed offered Old Woman Orchomenus Osiris Pausanias person Phrixus Phrygian plants Plutarch priest Proserpine puppet reapers reaping reign Religion represented resurrection rice rites round sacred sacrifice sacrificed Sagen Shrove Tuesday singing slain sometimes soul spirit of vegetation spring straw Summer supposed Tammuz temporary king threshing throw tree tree-spirit tribe village Volkskunde winter women worship young
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Side 46 - When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire...
Side 49 - Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Side 51 - But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat...
Side 50 - Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast : it is mine.
Side 51 - Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors : the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep : seven days it shall be with his dam ; on the eighth day thou shalt give It me.
Side 46 - Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Side 48 - And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Side 47 - And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan : and the land was polluted with blood.
Side 48 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.