Myth, Ritual and Religion, Volumen1Longmans, Green, 1887 - 713 páginas |
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Africa Aitareya Brahmana ancient animals Apollo Aryan Ataentsic attributed Australian barbarous beasts belief birds borrowed Brahmanas Bushmen character chief civilised races cosmogonic myths creatures Cronus deities Dionysus Divine Myths earth element example existence explain fancy father folk-lore Garcilasso gods Greece Greek myths heaven hero Hesiod Homer human sacrifices hymns ideas Incas Indra Ioskeha legend Lobeck lower races magic Maori Max Müller metamorphosis missionaries Muir mysteries mythical mythology native natural origin Orphic Pausanias persons philosophers Phoenician Pindar plants Plutarch poets Popol Vuh Prajapati primitive Procne Pund-jel Purusha Purusha Sukta recognised Red Indians regarded religion religious Rig-Veda Rishis rites ritual sacred Samoan Sanskrit Satapatha Brahmana savage myths savagery says Schoolcraft shape sorcerers spirits stars stone story supernatural survival swallowed temple theory things thought tion totem tradition trees tribe Tylor Unkulunkulu various Veda Vedic woman worshipped Zealand Zeus Zulus
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Página 159 - There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.
Página 68 - bina," to dance, in reference to the custom of thus naming themselves, so that, when you wish to ascertain what tribe they belong to, you say, " What do you dance ?" It would seem as if that had been a part of the worship of old.
Página 218 - I am a poet, my father is a doctor, and my mother is a grinder of corn.
Página 248 - Navajoes — that the earth was at first very small, a mere patch, and grew bigger after the animal fished it up. " Formerly this earth was only so large, of the size of a span. A boar called Emusha raised her up.
Página 61 - The origin of these family names," says Sir George Grey, " is attributed by the natives to different causes. . . , One origin frequently assigned by the natives is, that they were derived from some vegetable or animal being very common in the district which the family inhabited!
Página 242 - When (the gods) divided Purusha, into how many parts did they cut him up? What was his mouth? What arms (had he)? What (two objects) are said (to have been) his thighs and feet? The Brahman was his mouth; the Rajanya was made his arms; the being (called) the Vaisya, he was his thighs; the Sudra sprang from his feet.
Página 242 - When the gods performed a sacrifice with Purusha, as the oblation, the spring was its butter, the summer its fuel, and the autumn its (accompanying) offering. 7. This victim, Purusha, born in the beginning, they immolated on the sacrificial grass.
Página 250 - How can we be reproduced ?' So saying, they toiled, they performed austerity. While they were performing austerity, a golden egg came into existence. Being produced, it then became a year. Wherefore this golden egg floated about for the period of a year. From it in a year a male (purusha) came into existence, who was Prajipati.
Página 11 - I bethink me of a very new and ingenious notion which occurs to me ; and, if I do not mind, I shall be wiser than I ought to be by to-morrow's dawn. My notion is, that we may put in and pull out letters at pleasure and alter the accents...