Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 2J. Murray, 1920 - Animism |
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Africa Amazulu ancestors ancient animals animistic Archip Aryan Avesta barbaric Bastian beasts belief belongs body Brahmans Brinton Castrén ceremony Chinese Christian civilized conception connexion Creator dead death deity demons disease divine doctrine dwell earth evil feast fetish fire ghosts give gods Grimm Hades heaven Heaven-god higher Hindu human idea idol images Indians Iroquois island J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land living lower culture lower races lustration mankind Max Müller Meiners mind modern Moon moral Myth nations native nature negro offerings Ojibwa original Parsi passed Peru philosophy Pinkerton polytheism prayer priest region religion religious Rig-Veda rites rude sacred sacrifice savage Schoolcraft seems snakes solar spirits stone Sun-worship Supreme Deity survival Tatar temple theology theory thou thought thunder tion Tonga tree tribes Turanian tribes Unkulunkulu Waitz West worship Zealand Zeus Zulu
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Page 415 - I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.' ' I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats . . . Wash you, make you clean ; put away
Page 406 - Through want of strength, thou strong and bright god, have I gone wrong ; have mercy, almighty, have mercy ! .... Whenever we men, O Varuna, commit an offence before the heavenly host, whenever we break the law through thoughtlessness, have mercy, almighty, have mercy ! '
Page 98 - measures of the country. I have not injured the images of the gods. I have not taken scraps of the bandages of the dead. I have not committed adultery. I have not withheld milk from the mouths of sucklings. I have not hunted wild animals in the
Page 84 - of thee, to meet thee at thy coming : He rouseth for thee the mighty dead, all the great chiefs of the earth ; He maketh to rise up from their thrones, all the kings of the nations. All of them shall accost thee, and shall say unto thee : Art thou, even thou too,
Page 360 - In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits, each of a peculiar activity. These are the good and the base in thought, word, and deed. Choose one of these two spirits. Be good, not base
Page 98 - I have not done any wicked thing. I have not made the labouring man do more than his task daily. ... I have not calumniated the slave to his master. ... I have not murdered. . . . I have not done fraud to men. I have not changed
Page 210 - force and might Doth in these candéis lie, which if at any time they light, They sure beleve that neyther storm or tempest dare abide, Nor thunder in the skies be heard, nor any devil's spide, Nor fearefull sprightes that walke by night, nor hurts of frost or haile.
Page 115 - The dead ancestor, now passed into a deity, simply goes on protecting his own family and receiving suit and service from them as of old ; the dead chief still watches over his own tribe, still holds his authority by helping friends and harming enemies, still rewards the right and sharply punishes the wrong.
Page 454 - about five-and-twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces toward the east, and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Page 319 - is fixed or locomotive.'—' That eye, supremely beneficial, rises pure from the east ; may we see him a hundred years ; may we live a hundred years ; may we hear a hundred years.'—' May we, preserved by the divine power, contemplating heaven above the region of darkness, approach the deity, most splendid of luminaries!