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TOPICAL INDEX.

AARON his eating and drinking in
covenant, 240.

Abayh, the rite in, 8.

Abel : his blood-giving, 210-212; his
proffer of himself to God, 211 f.; his
voice of blood, 359 f.

Abihu his eating and drinking in
covenant, 240.

:

Abimelech his covenant with Abra-
ham, 264 f.; his relation to Ahuz-
zath, 267 f.; his covenant with
Isaac, 267 f.
Abraham his surrender of Isaac, 166;

the friend of God, 215-221; his blood-
giving, 217-221; his faith-testing,
224-230; his covenant with Abime-
lech, 265 f.

Abram his first covenant with indi-

viduals, 264 f.

Abydos, inscription in temple at, 301 f.
Abyssinia: the slayer's blood drunk by

relatives of the slain in, 262 f.; cut-
tings of face in, 368.
Acosta: cited, 176 f.
Adams: cited, 92, 190.
Adoption of children, form of, in India,
194-196.

Eschylus: cited, 297.

Africa: life through new blood in, 125 f.;

heart-eating in, 129; blood from legs

in, 235; blood-cancelling in, 261;
blood-bathing in, 324.
"Agreement bottle," before a wedding,
199 f.

Ahab's blood licked by dogs, 312 f.
Ahuzzath and Abimelech, 267 f.
Akkadian: traces of substitute sacri-

fices, 166; sacrifice of first-born,
300.

Alcedo: cited, 131 f.
Aleppo, the rite in, 8.
Allingham cited, 332.

Altar a table of blood-bought com-

munion, 167 f., 189, 292 f.; sprink-
ling blood upon, 243, 292; true les-
son of, 255.

America: traces of the rite in, 43, 54-
56, 90 f.

America, Central and South: substitute

blood in covenant sacrifice in, 173-
178; heart for life in, 301 f.
American Indians: Oriental customs
among, 127; their sacrificing and

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Arabs sacrifice and feasting among,
179; their conception of liver and
spleen, 304.

Araucanians: vicarious sacrifice among,
131 f.; traces of the rite among, 334.
Arctic regions, heart for life in, 301 f.
Aristotle cited, 38, 80.

90.

Armenia, survivals of the rite in,
Arm blood from, in the rite, 5 f, 16,
18, 26, 30-32, 36 f., 49-51, 60-
62, 79-83, 235, 316; lifting up of, in
oath, 235.

Armlet. See Bracelet.

Armpit, blood drawn from, 174 f.
Arrack as substitute for blood, 193.
Arriaga: cited, 115.

Arthur, King, legends of life through
blood, 120 f.

Ashantees, heart-eating among, 129.
Assiratum a drink of covenanting, 63 f.
Assyria, traces of the rite in, 64, 75,
115, 165-169.

Assyrian kings: their claim of union
with gods, 356.
Athenæus cited, 170, 320.
Atonement through life, not through
death, 245 f., 287 f.; meaning of

word, 352; only through shared
blood, 355.

Augustine: his condemnation of cove-
nant tokens, 238; on meaning of
sacrifice, 357-

Aulus Gellius: cited, 72.
Australia: belief as to blood in, 129; vi-
carious blood-yielding in, 133; ring
of flesh in, 331; giving of new name
in, 335 f.; brotherhoods in, 338.
"Avenger," ""goel" not an, 259..
Aztecs their ideas of divine-human
inter-communion, 183; cannibalism
among, 190.

BAAL, priests of, illustrating the rite, 89 f.
Baal-bereeth,"Master of the covenant:"
218 f.; at Shechem, 218 f.
Babylon, traces of the rite in, 115, 165-
167.

Bacon: cited, 74 f.

Bähr: on blood-shedding in covenants,

297; on significance of blood, 354.
Balfour cited, 66.

Bancroft, H. H.: cited, 55, 90 f., 105-

107, 141, 174-176.

Banquet: an accompaniment of sacrifice

in China, 149; elsewhere, 176 f.
See, also, Feasting.

Basil, on sacrifices to demons, 359.
Bastian: cited, 139.

Bata and Anpu, Egyptian story of, 103-

105.

Baths of blood. See Blood-bathing.
Beasts: sacrifice of, in China, 152 f.;

sacrifice of, in India, 161; blood of,
made sacred, 242.

Bed'ween: their blood brotherhood, 9 f.;

their sacrificing and feasting, 179;
marriage customs among, 192; their
justification in eating liver, 304.
Beecham cited, 129.

Beer with and for blood, 13; as a sub-
stitute for blood, 193, 367f.

Beer sheba, covenant at, 265.
"Believed in," root-meaning of, 221.
Belts and necklaces: of wampum, 326-

328; of red feathers, a divine-royal
emblem in Tahiti, 328 f.
Benson: cited, 93 f., 145.
Berosus cited, 112.

Bheels: blood-anointing among, 136 f.;
covenant-drinking among, 198.
Bible study: its wide range, 3.
Bible, the a book for Orientals, 3; the

earliest reference to blood in, 210;
indications of the rite in, 290-293.
Bible terminology, traces of the rite in,
349 f.

Biblical research, gain through, 4.
Birch: cited, 79, 81, 83, 100, 102, 236.
Birdwood: cited, 109, 164.

Bixby, Dr. H. M., on the rite among
Karens, 316.

Bleeding hand, sign of, in Tunis, 342.
Bleek: cited, 301 f.

Blood: from arm, 5 f., 16, 18, 26, 30-32,
36 f., 49-51, 60-62, 79-83, 235, 316;
from tongue, 9 f., 124; from stom-
ach, 13; from forehead, 13, 90, 232,
320, 366 f.; from bosom, 45; from
fingers, 59, 62, 96; offered to gods,
in Central and South America,
105-107; in China, in India, in
Phoenicia, 109; burial of, 109, 243 f.;
as life, 110, 147, 241; mingled with
mandrake juice, 111; in Greek
legend, 112; transfusion of, in Tas-
mania, 126; as a means of inspira-
tion, 139-147; bearing witness, 143-
147; not death, but life, 148, 244;
on door-posts in China, 153; from
ears, from armpits, from under the
girdle, 174 f.; from elbows, 175;
sharing of, gives common life, 182 f.;
of
grapes, 191; earliest reference to,
in Bible, 210; primitive teachings
of, 210-215; abstinence from, en-
joined, 215; from cheek, 218; min-
gled with wine, 218 f.; waters of
Egypt turned into, 231; the pass-
over sign, 231 f.; from legs, 235,
313 f.; from parties to covenant,
240; forbidden as food, 240 f.; of
beasts deemed sacred, 242; friend-
ship through, 243; pre-eminence of,
in sacrifices, 245; milk or, in
blood-cancelling, 261 f.; vivifying
power of, 284-286, 306 f.; used in
leprosy, 287 f.; hands or weapons
of confederates dipped in, 297; les-
sons of, in Borneo, 308 f.; in mar-
riage ceremony in Borneo, 309; in
Tahiti, 337 f.; and butter in cove-
nanting, 338; sharing makes union,
350; Sabean views of, 357 f.; effect
of eating, 357 f; from wrist, 370;
signatures of mutual covenants made
in, in Japan, 371.
Blood-anointing: in Arabia, 11, 119 f.,

268; in North and South America,
90 f.; in Arthurian romance, 120 f.;
among the Bheels, 136 f.; among
the Caribs, 137 f.; among the Chi-
nese, 154 f.; among Arabs, 268;
among British Columbia Indians,
307 f.; among the Karens, 313 f.;
among the Australians, 337 f; sig-
nificance of, among Zuñis, 305-307.
See, also, Blood-bathing.
Blood-balancing: in Arabia, 261 f. See,
also, Blood-cancelling.
Blood-bathing: among Egyptians, 116-
118; in Scandinavia, 121 f.; among
Brahmans, 122 f.; among Kafirs,
139: among Bechuanas, 324.
Blood brotherhood: by proxy, 13, 28; in
China, in Burmah, in Madagascar,

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in Borneo, in North and South
America, in Brazil, in South Sea
Islands, in Syria, among Malays,
43-58; in Persia, 370 f.
Blood-cancelling

tariffs for, 260 f.;
in Arabia, in Syria, 260-264; Bible
references to, 263; in Africa, 261,
264.
Blood covenant: a primitive Semitic
rite, 4; still observed in the East, 5;
description of, 5; in Syria, Aleppo,
Hâsbayya, Abayh, among Koords,
near Tyre and Sidon, 5-8; a perma-
nent bond, 6 f.; among Arabs, 12; in
Central África, 12-38; in Europe,
39, 40; in Borneo, 49-54; in Malay
Archipelago, 52 f.; in Yucatan, 54 ;
among American Indians, 54-56:
in Brazil, 55; references to, in the
classics, 58 65; in Scythia, 58 f.;
in Armenia, 59 f.; traces of, in Hin-
dostan, 67; traces of, in Egypt, 70,
75, 77-85, 99-105, 110 f.; traces of, in
China, 153 f., 364; in ancient Guate-
mala, 174; in the passover, 230-238;
at Sinai, 238-240; in the Mosaic
ritual, 240-263; in the Gospels, 271-
293; its application in Jesus Christ,
286-293; among Karens in Burmah,
313-316; among Shans, 316; traces
of, in Scotland, 318-320; in ancient
Germany, 320; in Australia, 335 f. ;
among Sclavic races, 366 f.; traces
of, in modern Germany, 366-368;
various modes of, combined in Per-
sia, 370 f.

Blood-drinking: in covenant, 5 f., 9, 18,
41, 44-48, 50 f., 53, 58 f, 60, 126,
161 f., 200, 267; in the classics,
113 f.; for life, in France, 124; by
Scythians,126,267; among fellâheen
in Palestine, 130; in the Nibelungen
Lied, 130; in Nubia, 131 f.; in Abys-
sinia, 132 f; among the Hallenga,
132; in Masâi Land, 135 f.; in
Himalayan districts, 141 f; in
marriage, 191-193; prohibited in
the Bible, 213 f., 240, 251; in Ab-
yssinia, 262 f.; among American
Indians, 304 f.; among Zuñis, 306;
in Burmah, 314; among Shans, 316;
in ancient Germany, 320; charged
against Jews and Christians, 321;
among Persians, 321, 365 f., 370:
in Australia, 336; in the New Heb-
rides, 371; between allies, in West-
ern Asia, 371.

Blood friendship, divine-human, 245.
See, also, Friendship.
Blood-giving is life-giving, 96, 149; on
Calvary, 285 f.

Blood-letting in love or sorrow, 85-89.
Blood-lickers: among Arabs, 11;

Mecca, 348.

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377

Blood-money: in Arabia, Palestine,
Africa, 261 f.; among Bed'ween,
262; refusal to receive, 262 f.
Blood-ransoming in various places, 324-
326.
Blood-shedding in making covenants,
297. See, also, Human Sacrifice.
Blood-sprinkling: in China, 152 f.; in
Central America, 175; at Sinai,
239; upon altar, 243; rules observed
by the priest in, 246.
Blood-testifying, 143-147, 359 f.
Blood transfusion: as a means of life,
115-126, 242; in Germany, 125; in
New South Wales, 336 f.; in Per-
sia, 370.

Blood-union, hints of, 332-342.
Bloody Hand, 247, 304, 342.
Blood-yielding vicariously in Australia,
133.

Bloody sweat of Jesus, 279.
Bock, Carl: cited, 73, 129.

Body of substitute sacrifice represents
divine nature, 204.

Boechler: cited, 96.
Bonwick: cited, 126.

Book of the Dead, Egyptian: references
to the rite in, 78-83, 111; traces of
the rite in, 99-101; gleam of divine-
human inter-union in, 156; hints of
the rite in, 333.

Borneo friendship in, 49, 53; blood
brotherhood in, 52; wedding cere-
mony in, 73; head-hunting in, 129;
marriage customs among the
Dayaks in, 192; lessons of blood
in, 308 f.; cutting of covenant in,
322 f.

Bosom, blood from, in the rite, 45.
Boyle, Robert: his inquiries in this
field, 134.

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Bracelet: a covenant symbol, 64-68;
or armlet, on Oriental kings, 75.
Brahmanic recognition of divine-human
inter-communion, 160.

Brazil, the rite in, 55; office of goel in,

325.

Bread and wine, covenant in, 281 f.
Bread: covenant of, temporary, 293;
blood or, 293.

Brébeuf, Jean de, martyrdom of, 127 f.
Brewer: cited, 72.

Bridegroom" root meaning of word,
222 f.

Brinton, D. G.: cited, 112, 141.
British Columbia, customs among In-
dian girls in, 307 f.

British Guiana, heart-eating in, 128
Brotherhood, Covenant of, 10.
Brothers of the Covenant, 6.
Bruce cited, 368.

Bruce, King Robert, heart of, 107 f.
Brugsch: cited, 79, 82 f., 110 f.
Bruy

cited, 125.

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Butter with blood, in covenanting, 338.
Buxtorf: cited, 219, 237.

CAFFRES. See Kaprs.

Cain: his blood-withholding, 219-221.
Cameron, Commander, makes blood
covenant in Africa, 15-18
Cancelling of blood. See Blood-can-
celling.

Cannibalism: in Africa, 22; among

American Indians, 127 f., 187 f;
basis of, 183-190; in ancient India,
185 f.; in Feejee Islands, 187; in
Central America, 189; in Orissa,
190; in Sumatra, 190; in the New
Hebrides, 371 f.

Caribs heart-eating among, 128; blood-
anointing among, 137 f.

Carlyle cited, 40.

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Casama, as covenant rite in Arabia, 351.
Castell: cited, 65.

Castor: cited, 171.
Castren: cited, 301.

Catacombs, covenant tokens found in,
238.

Catafago: cited, 8.

Catiline and his fellow-conspirators, 60,

201.

Ceylon, form of marriage in, 71.
Chaldean legend of creation, 112.
Chambers: cited, 367
Chardin: cited, 71.

Cheek, blood from, in the rite, 13, 218.
Chest, stamping the, 218

Chica as substitute for blood, 197 f.
Children sacred food for, among In-
dians, 181.

China: traces of the rite in, 43 f., 109,
364 f.; thought of blood as life-giv-
ing in, 123 f.; primitive worship
in, 148-152, horse sacrifice in, 152 f.;
sacrificing of cock in, 153; sacrifice
and feasting in, 181; wedding cere-
monies in, 197 f.; significance of

red thread in, 236; heart-eating in,
363 f.

Chinese character for "sacrifice," 357.
Christ life and nourishment in, 276;
union of life in, 342.

Christian and Jew in covenant, 7.
Christian Fathers, testimony of, 354 f.
Christians: use of covenant tokens
among, 238; charged with blood-
drinking, 321.

Chrysostom: condemns use of covenant
tokens, 238.

Cicero: cited, 108 f.

Cigar-smoking in marriage ceremony
among Dayaks, 309.

Circassians, wedding customs among,

198.
Circumcision: blood covenant in, 79,
215-224; its estimate by rabbis,
221; its significance, 351 f.
Clark: cited, 180 f., 339.

Clasping of hands in blood, 234-236.
Classics light from the, 58-65; refer-
ence to blood-drinking in the, 113 f.
Clavigero cited, 90, 106.

Clement of Alexandria on life in sacra-
mental cup, 354.

Clement of Rome on red cord of Ra-
hab, 355.

Cobbett: cited, 145.
Cocceius: cited, 264.

Cock: sacrifice of, in China, 153; blood
of, at wedding in Scotland, 199 f.
Coffee: a substitute for blood, 192; in the
rite, in Persia, 370 f.

Common life through common blood, 7,
10, 54-57, 60, 75, 77 f., 147-190.
Communion feasts in India, 161 f.;

sacrifices in ancient Egypt, 171 f.
Constantine, the emperor, legend of, 117.
Copts: traces of the rite among, 72;
marriage customs among, 192.
Corner, Lieut.: cited, 56 f.
Coronation ring, in Great Britain, and
in ancient times, 74.
Cory: cited, 109, 112, 174.
Covenant: tokens of, found in cata-

combs, 238; meaning of the word,
264; of Abram, Mamre, and others
at Hebron, 264 f.; at Beer-sheba,
264 f.; between individuals, first
Bible reference to, 264f; at Well of
the Seven, 267 f; oath of, in Su-
matra, 268 f.; of blood, the true,
280 f.; of bread, and of blood, dis-
tinct, 293; the eternal, 293; cutting
in, 322 f. reminder of, 326-332;
among Feejees, 338 f.; among Paw-
nees, 339 f.

Covenant token. See Tokens of Cove-
nant.

Cow sacrifices in India, 157.

Cox and Jones: cited, 121 f., 130, 140,

144.

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Dubois: cited, 77, 155, 158, 161 f., 174,
185, 196, 218.

EARS blood from, in the rite, 90 f.,
174 f.

Earth, outpoured blood buried in the,
180. See, also, Burial of Blood.
Eating of blood prohibited, 102 f., 240
f.; the sacrament a duty, among In-
dians, 181; and drinking together
in covenant, 240, 267-271 f.; on wit-
ness-heap, 268 f.; as mode of cove-
nanting, 313; together indicates
union, 350; blood, effect of, 357.
Ebers: cited, 40, 79, 84, 100 f., 170 f.
Edersheim on sacrifices of the Mosaic
ritual, 246-251.

Edible animals alone used for sacrifice,

181.

Edkins cited, 109, 148-151, 181 f., 220.
Edwards: cited, 138.

Egypt: traces of the rite in, 70, 75, 77-

85, 99-105, 110 f.; ancient, sacra-
ment of communion in, 170; waters
of, turned to blood, 231; ancient, red
amulet in, 233; heart for life in,
301 f.; ancient, hints of the rite in,
333.

Egyptian: word for "red" and
blood," 236; sacrifice, resem-
blance to that of the Jews, 300;
kings, their claims of union with
gods, 356.

El-A'asha: cited, 11.

Elbows, blood from, 175.

Elephant sacrifices in India, 161.
Elliott and Roberts: cited, 67.

Ellis cited, 44, 48 f., 87 f., 337 f., 346 f.
England, blood-testifying in, 146 f.
Esarhaddon, inscription of, 168.
Eschwege: cited, 325.

Eshcol, Mamre, and Aner: their cove-
nant, 264 f.

Ethnic reachings

God, 356-359.

after union with

Evolution or deterioration, 4; of sub-
stitute sacrifice in India, 157.
Exceptions to points in first edition, 345.
Exchange of gifts, 14, 16, 20-22, 25-

28, 32; of garments, 14, 270; of
arms, 270; of wampum belts, 327 f.;
of names, 334.

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