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 1881
... hand of the old chief , and was pressing it hard for joy . Warm - hearted Uledi , who the moment before was breathing furious hate of all savages , and of the procrastinating old chief in particular , embraced him with a filial warmth ...
... hand of the old chief , and was pressing it hard for joy . Warm - hearted Uledi , who the moment before was breathing furious hate of all savages , and of the procrastinating old chief in particular , embraced him with a filial warmth ...
Page 1882
... hand , and slightly touched our necks , our heads , our arms , and our legs , muttering rapidly his litany of incantations . What was left of the medicine Mangombo and I carefully folded in a banana leaf [ Was this the ' house of the ...
... hand , and slightly touched our necks , our heads , our arms , and our legs , muttering rapidly his litany of incantations . What was left of the medicine Mangombo and I carefully folded in a banana leaf [ Was this the ' house of the ...
Page 1885
... hand he cleaved the branch in two . " Thus , ' he said , ' I declare my wish to be your brother . ' " Then a fetish - man came forward with his lancets , long pod , pinch of salt , and fresh green banana leaf . He held the staff of ...
... hand he cleaved the branch in two . " Thus , ' he said , ' I declare my wish to be your brother . ' " Then a fetish - man came forward with his lancets , long pod , pinch of salt , and fresh green banana leaf . He held the staff of ...
Page 1888
... hand, was the discordant and corrupting divinity; symbolizing, in his personality, “sin, shrewdness, deceitfulness, treachery, malice,” and other phases of evil. [64] In the poetic myths of the Norseland, it is claimed that at the ...
... hand, was the discordant and corrupting divinity; symbolizing, in his personality, “sin, shrewdness, deceitfulness, treachery, malice,” and other phases of evil. [64] In the poetic myths of the Norseland, it is claimed that at the ...
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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