The Blood CovenantFilRougeViceversa, 25 juil. 2021 - 150 pages Apart from, and yet linked with, the explicit proofs of the rite of blood-covenanting throughout the primitive world, there are many indications of the root-idea of this form of covenanting; in the popular estimate of blood, and of all the marvelous possibilities through blood-transference. These indications, also, are of old, and from everywhere.To go back again to the earlier written history of the world; it is evident that the ancient Egyptians recognized blood as in a peculiar sense life itself; and that they counted the heart,as the blood-source and the blood-centre,the symbol and the substance of life. In the Book of the Dead, the deceased speaks of his heart,or his blood-fountain,as his life; and as giving him the right to appear in the presence of the gods: My heart was my mother; my heart was my mother; my heart was my being on earth; placed within me; returned to me by the chief gods, placing me before the gods |
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Page 1860
... native Syrian, who saw it consummated in a village at the base of the mountains of Lebanon; and then to add evidences of its wide-spread existence in the East and elsewhere, in earlier and in later times. It was two young men, who were ...
... native Syrian, who saw it consummated in a village at the base of the mountains of Lebanon; and then to add evidences of its wide-spread existence in the East and elsewhere, in earlier and in later times. It was two young men, who were ...
Page 1862
... native Syrians , concerning the observance of this rite in Damascus , in Aleppo , in Hâsbayya , in Abayh , along the road between Tyre and Sidon , and among the Koords resident in Salehayyah . All the Syrians who have been my informants ...
... native Syrians , concerning the observance of this rite in Damascus , in Aleppo , in Hâsbayya , in Abayh , along the road between Tyre and Sidon , and among the Koords resident in Salehayyah . All the Syrians who have been my informants ...
Page 1863
... native Syrian , who had traveled extensively in the East , and who was familiar with the covenant of blood in its more common form , as already described , told me of a practice somewhat akin to it , whereby a bandit - chieftain would ...
... native Syrian , who had traveled extensively in the East , and who was familiar with the covenant of blood in its more common form , as already described , told me of a practice somewhat akin to it , whereby a bandit - chieftain would ...
Page 1871
... natives , on the Luama River , he says : " The brotherhood business having been completed [ by putting the blood from one party on to the arm of the other ] , some pen and ink marks were made on a piece of paper , which , together with ...
... natives , on the Luama River , he says : " The brotherhood business having been completed [ by putting the blood from one party on to the arm of the other ] , some pen and ink marks were made on a piece of paper , which , together with ...
Page 1872
... native and foreigner from Usui to Urori , and from Uvinza to Ugogo , a country embracing 90,000 square miles ; who , from the village chieftainship over Uyoweh , has made for himself a name as well known as that of Mtesa throughout the ...
... native and foreigner from Usui to Urori , and from Uvinza to Ugogo , a country embracing 90,000 square miles ; who , from the village chieftainship over Uyoweh , has made for himself a name as well known as that of Mtesa throughout the ...
Table des matières
| 1854 | |
SUGGESTIONS AND PERVERSIONS OF THE RITE | |
INDICATIONS OF THE RITE IN THE BIBLE | |
APPENDIX | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and Its Bearing on Scripture Henry Clay Trumbull Affichage du livre entier - 1893 |
The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and Its Bearings on Scripture Henry Clay Trumbull Affichage du livre entier - 1893 |
The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and Its Bearing on Scripture Henry Clay Trumbull Affichage du livre entier - 1893 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Abimelech Abraham Africa altar American amulet ancient Egypt animal Arabs Assyria Bible binding blood-brotherhood body Borneo bracelet Brahmans bride bridegroom brother brotherhood called cannibalism ceremony chief China Christ circumcision cited in Spencer's common communion compact covenant of blood covenant of blood-friendship covenanting parties Dark Cont Dayaks dead death divine drink East Egyptian fact father feast Finger Ring flesh friends friendship gift give gods hand hath heart Herodotus Hist human Ibid idea India inline illustration inter inter-commingling inter-communion Israel Jesus Kafirs king lives Lord marriage means Mirambo missionary Mpika Native nature Norseland Odin offering Oriental partake person phylacteries pledge priest primitive rite proffered proof received recognized reference religious represented ring rite of blood-covenanting sacred covenant sacrifice says Scythian soul sprinkled Stanley substitute blood supra surrender symbol Temple of Heaven thee thou token tribes union unto victim wine word worship