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 1859
... persons enter into the closest, the most enduring, and the most sacred of compacts, as friends and brothers, or as more than brothers, through the inter- commingling of their blood, by means of its mutual tasting, or of its inter ...
... persons enter into the closest, the most enduring, and the most sacred of compacts, as friends and brothers, or as more than brothers, through the inter- commingling of their blood, by means of its mutual tasting, or of its inter ...
Page 1861
... persons thus conjoined , are , Akhwat el - M'ahadah ( ) , " Brothers of the Covenant . " The rite itself is recognized , in Syria , as one of the very old customs of the land , as ' âdah qadeemeh ( a ) " a primitive rite . " There are ...
... persons thus conjoined , are , Akhwat el - M'ahadah ( ) , " Brothers of the Covenant . " The rite itself is recognized , in Syria , as one of the very old customs of the land , as ' âdah qadeemeh ( a ) " a primitive rite . " There are ...
Page 1862
... persons of different religions ; [ 1 ] and in such a case it would be held as a closer tie than that of birth [ 2 ] or sect . He who has entered into this compact with another , counts himself the possessor of a double life ; for his ...
... persons of different religions ; [ 1 ] and in such a case it would be held as a closer tie than that of birth [ 2 ] or sect . He who has entered into this compact with another , counts himself the possessor of a double life ; for his ...
Page 1867
... person is put into a pot of beer, and that of the second into another; each then drinks the other's blood, and they are supposed to become perpetual friends, or relations. During the drinking of the beer, some of the party continue ...
... person is put into a pot of beer, and that of the second into another; each then drinks the other's blood, and they are supposed to become perpetual friends, or relations. During the drinking of the beer, some of the party continue ...
Page 1869
... person of higher rank is supposed to give the more costly gifts in any such exchange ] ; more especially [ in this case ] as he [ Syde ] borrowed the beads of me and afterward forgot to repay me . Pakwanya then performed a tune on his ...
... person of higher rank is supposed to give the more costly gifts in any such exchange ] ; more especially [ in this case ] as he [ Syde ] borrowed the beads of me and afterward forgot to repay me . Pakwanya then performed a tune on his ...
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