Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2John Murray, 1873 - Animism |
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... gods are spirits of departed ancestors , aged chiefs becoming deities after death , presiding over the growth of yams and fruit trees , and receiving from the islanders prayer and offerings of first fruits . Nor are the fairer ...
... gods are spirits of departed ancestors , aged chiefs becoming deities after death , presiding over the growth of yams and fruit trees , and receiving from the islanders prayer and offerings of first fruits . Nor are the fairer ...
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... gods to whom worship is given by the public at large . Thus , according to legend , the War - god or Military Sage was once in human life a distinguished soldier , the Mechanics ' god was a skilful workman and inventor of tools , the Swine ...
... gods to whom worship is given by the public at large . Thus , according to legend , the War - god or Military Sage was once in human life a distinguished soldier , the Mechanics ' god was a skilful workman and inventor of tools , the Swine ...
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... gods , the patron gods of particular ranks and crafts , the gods from whom men sought special help in special needs , were too near and dear to the inmost heart of præ - Christian Europe to be done away with without substitutes . It ...
... gods , the patron gods of particular ranks and crafts , the gods from whom men sought special help in special needs , were too near and dear to the inmost heart of præ - Christian Europe to be done away with without substitutes . It ...
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... god Oro thus gave his oracles , his priest ceased to act or speak as a voluntary agent , but with his limbs convulsed , his ... gods , and prophesying future events , in well - knit harangues full of the poetic figure and metaphor of the ...
... god Oro thus gave his oracles , his priest ceased to act or speak as a voluntary agent , but with his limbs convulsed , his ... gods , and prophesying future events , in well - knit harangues full of the poetic figure and metaphor of the ...
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... god did not even pretend to be an image , but was often nothing more than a pillar , a board , a shapeless stone or a post ... gods , and that one which re- ceived such honour in Boeotian festivals as representing the Thespian Eros ...
... god did not even pretend to be an image , but was often nothing more than a pillar , a board , a shapeless stone or a post ... gods , and that one which re- ceived such honour in Boeotian festivals as representing the Thespian Eros ...
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Page 55 - Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men ! 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Page 386 - ... an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 6 Т And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock ; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Page 286 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 387 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me ? saith the LORD : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Page 82 - Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them...
Page 43 - To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.' CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.
Page 20 - MACGREGOR (J.)- Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red Sea, Gennesareth, &c. A Canoe Cruise in Palestine and Egypt and the Waters of Damascus.
Page 144 - After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensch of Parys was to hire unknowe. At mete" wel i-taught was sche withalle ; Sche leet no morsel from hire lippes falle, Ne wette hire fyngres in hire sauce deepe. Wel cowde sche carie a morsel, and wel keepe, That no drope
Page 113 - Its principles are not difficult to understand, for they plainly keep up the social relations of the living world. 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 253 - We must not be surprised," he says, " at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes [Benares] mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names.