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 1861
... lives , nothing can transcend it . It forms a tie , or a union , which cannot be dissolved . In marriage , divorce is a possibility : not so in the covenant of blood . Although now comparatively rare , in view of its responsibilities ...
... lives , nothing can transcend it . It forms a tie , or a union , which cannot be dissolved . In marriage , divorce is a possibility : not so in the covenant of blood . Although now comparatively rare , in view of its responsibilities ...
Page 1864
... 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 exists , is held to be incest ...
... 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 exists , is held to be incest ...
Page 1887
... lives , of the personalities , of the natures , thus brought together ; so that there is , thereby and thenceforward , one life in the two bodies , a common life between the two friends : a thought which Aristotle recognizes in his ...
... lives , of the personalities , of the natures , thus brought together ; so that there is , thereby and thenceforward , one life in the two bodies , a common life between the two friends : a thought which Aristotle recognizes in his ...
Page 1888
... lives through an inter-commingling of blood. Odin was the beneficent god of light and knowledge, the promoter of heroism, and the protector of sacred covenants, in the mythology of the North. Lôké, or Lok, on the other hand, was the ...
... lives through an inter-commingling of blood. Odin was the beneficent god of light and knowledge, the promoter of heroism, and the protector of sacred covenants, in the mythology of the North. Lôké, or Lok, on the other hand, was the ...
Page 72
... lives , and the intermingling of those lives — by the intermingling of their blood - while in their temporary grave ; in order to their rising again with a common life [ 71 ] -one life , one soul , in two bodies . Thus it is told ...
... lives , and the intermingling of those lives — by the intermingling of their blood - while in their temporary grave ; in order to their rising again with a common life [ 71 ] -one life , one soul , in two bodies . Thus it is told ...
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