Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 123
... image or other thing , which contains the spirit as a vessel contains a fluid : this is the key to strict fetishism , and in no small measure to idolatry . In briefly considering these various branches of the Embodi- ment - theory ...
... image or other thing , which contains the spirit as a vessel contains a fluid : this is the key to strict fetishism , and in no small measure to idolatry . In briefly considering these various branches of the Embodi- ment - theory ...
Page 164
... image ; to this Siva , in the form of a clay idol or of a stone beneath a sacred tree , there are offered not only flowers and fruits , but also bloody sacrifices.2 This stone - worship among the Hindus seems a survival of a rite ...
... image ; to this Siva , in the form of a clay idol or of a stone beneath a sacred tree , there are offered not only flowers and fruits , but also bloody sacrifices.2 This stone - worship among the Hindus seems a survival of a rite ...
Page 165
... image , but was often nothing more than a pillar , a board , a shapeless stone or a post , receiving care and decoration from the neighbourhood , as well as worship . " Such were the log that stood for Artemis in Euboea , the stake that ...
... image , but was often nothing more than a pillar , a board , a shapeless stone or a post , receiving care and decoration from the neighbourhood , as well as worship . " Such were the log that stood for Artemis in Euboea , the stake that ...
Page 166
... image to represent the Paphian Venus— “ et ratio in obscuro . " There are accounts of formal Christian prohibitions of stone - worship in France and England , reaching on into the early middle ages , which show this barbaric cultus as ...
... image to represent the Paphian Venus— “ et ratio in obscuro . " There are accounts of formal Christian prohibitions of stone - worship in France and England , reaching on into the early middle ages , which show this barbaric cultus as ...
Page 167
... image or receptacle , there is nothing strange in its being a relic of early barbarism holding its place against more artistic models through ages of advancing | Nilsson , ' Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia , ' p . 241. See also ...
... image or receptacle , there is nothing strange in its being a relic of early barbarism holding its place against more artistic models through ages of advancing | Nilsson , ' Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia , ' p . 241. See also ...
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