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 1863
... idea seems to be , that the life of the one covenanting is , by this covenant , devoted - surrendered as it were - to the one with whom he covenants ; and the rite is uniformly accompanied with a solemn and an imprecatory appeal to God ...
... idea seems to be , that the life of the one covenanting is , by this covenant , devoted - surrendered as it were - to the one with whom he covenants ; and the rite is uniformly accompanied with a solemn and an imprecatory appeal to God ...
Page 1864
... idea of a common life in the lives of two friends thus covenanted - if , indeed , they have become sharers of the same blood - sways the Oriental mind , Wetzstein adds : “ The marriage of a man and woman between whom this covenant ...
... idea of a common life in the lives of two friends thus covenanted - if , indeed , they have become sharers of the same blood - sways the Oriental mind , Wetzstein adds : “ The marriage of a man and woman between whom this covenant ...
Page 1870
... idea is strengthened by the fact that when the first traders from Zanzibar crossed the Tanganyika , the ceremony was unknown [ so far as those traders knew ] to the westward of that lake . " [ 19 ] Cameron was , of course , unaware of ...
... idea is strengthened by the fact that when the first traders from Zanzibar crossed the Tanganyika , the ceremony was unknown [ so far as those traders knew ] to the westward of that lake . " [ 19 ] Cameron was , of course , unaware of ...
Page 1871
... idea originated . The gallant and adventurous Henry M. Stanley also reports this rite of " blood - brotherhood , " or of " strong friendship , " in the story of his romantic experiences in the wilds of Africa . On numerous occasions the ...
... idea originated . The gallant and adventurous Henry M. Stanley also reports this rite of " blood - brotherhood , " or of " strong friendship , " in the story of his romantic experiences in the wilds of Africa . On numerous occasions the ...
Page 1887
... idea of this rite of blood - friendship seems to include the belief , that the blood is the life of a living being ; not merely that the blood is essential to life , but that , in a peculiar sense , it is life ; that it actually ...
... idea of this rite of blood - friendship seems to include the belief , that the blood is the life of a living being ; not merely that the blood is essential to life , but that , in a peculiar sense , it is life ; that it actually ...
Table des matières
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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