The Origin of Primitive Superstitions and Their Development Into the Worship of Spirits and the Doctrine of Spiritual Agency Among the Aborigines of AmericaJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1881 - 398 páginas |
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The Origin of Primitive Superstitions and Their Development Into the Worship ... Rushton M. Dorman Visualização completa - 1881 |
The Origin of Primitive Superstitions and Their Development Into the Worship ... Rushton M. Dorman Visualização completa - 1881 |
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Abipones Algonkin America ancestors animals anthropomorphic appears ashes Aztecs Bancroft beasts believe bird body bones Brazil burial buried called cannibalism canoe carried ceremonies character Chibchas chief civilized cremation culture-hero custom Dacotahs dead death deceased deity descent disease divinities dreams eagle earth enemies evil spirits father feast fetiches fetichistic figure fire flesh gods grave Guaycurus head Herrera Hist human sacrifices idols Incas Indians inhabitants Iroquois island killed lake living lodge Manabozho manitou Mayas metamorphosed Mexicans Mexico moon mounds mountains mythical mythology myths Nahua nations natives Northern tribes objects offered Ojibways person Peru Peruvians Potawatomies practised prevailed priests primitive Quetzalcoatl race religious represented river rock sacred sacrificed savage says Schoolcraft serpent sick skin sorcerers souls Southey spirit-land stones superstition superstitious fear supposed Tapuyas temple Tezcatlipoca thought thunder tion tombs totemic tradition transmigration trees tumulus warrior woman worship Yucatan Zapotecs
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Página 254 - As soon as we reached the lodge, the bear's head was adorned with all the trinkets in the possession of the family, such as silver arm-bands and wrist-bands, and belts of wampum, and then laid upon a scaffold, set up for its reception, within the lodge. Near the nose was placed a large quantity of tobacco.
Página 353 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a priest in the Church of God, now committed to thee by the imposition of our hands.
Página 51 - Walden nymphs will pardon the comparison, for though there are almost no weeds, there are frogs there— who would fain keep up the hilarious rules of their old festal tables, though their voices have waxed hoarse and solemnly grave, mocking at mirth, and the wine has lost its flavor...
Página 34 - And many a barbarous form is seen To chide the man that lingers there. By midnight moons, o'er moistening dews, In vestments for the chase arrayed, The hunter still the deer pursues — The hunter and the deer a shade.
Página 24 - Spirits, and they believe that it is the abode of little devils, in the human form, of about eighteen inches high and with remarkably large heads; they are armed with sharp arrows, with which they are very skilful, and are always on the watch to kill those who should have the hardihood to approach their residence. The tradition is that many have suffered from these little evil spirits, and among others three Maha Indians fell a sacrifice to them a few years since. This has inspired all the neighbouring...
Página 380 - ... possessed great power, secular as well as sacerdotal. Yopaa, one of their principal cities, was ruled absolutely by a pontiff, in whom the Zapotec monarchs had a powerful rival. It is impossible to overrate the reverence in which this spiritual king was held. He was looked upon as a god, whom the earth was not worthy to hold, nor the sun to shine upon.
Página 363 - After some time, these confused and frightful noises were succeeded by a perfect silence; and now a voice, not heard before, seemed to manifest the arrival of a new character in the tent. This was a low and feeble voice, resembling the cry of a young puppy. The sound was no sooner distinguished, than all the Indians clapped their hands for joy, exclaiming, that this was the Chief Spirit, the TURTLE, the spirit that never lied! Other voices, which they had discriminated from time to time, they had...
Página 351 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Página 27 - A certain missionary sent a native to one of his colleagues with some loaves of bread and a letter stating their number. The messenger ate a part of the bread, and his theft was consequently discovered ; another time, when he had to deliver four loaves, he ate two of them, but hid the accompanying letter under a stone while he was thus engaged, believing that his conduct would not be revealed this time, as the letter had not seen him in the act of eating the loaves.
Página 364 - Other voices which they had discriminated from time to time they had previously hissed as evil and lying spirits which deceive mankind. New sounds came from the tent. During the space of half an hour a succession of songs were heard, in which a diversity of voices met the ear. From his first entrance till these songs were finished we heard nothing in the proper voice of the priest...