Introduction to the History of Religions - BestLightNovel.com
You’re reading novel Introduction to the History of Religions Part 72 online at BestLightNovel.com. Please use the follow button to get notification about the latest chapter next time when you visit BestLightNovel.com. Use F11 button to read novel in full-screen(PC only). Drop by anytime you want to read free – fast – latest novel. It’s great if you could leave a comment, share your opinion about the new chapters, new novel with others on the internet. We’ll do our best to bring you the finest, latest novel everyday. Enjoy
[1887] So Wellhausen, _Prolegomena to the History of Israel_ (Eng. tr.), p. 62. In the Roman _sacra gentilicia_ it was rather the divinized ancestors who were the guests--they were entertained by the living.
[1888] In his article "Sacrifice" in _Encyclopaedia Brittanica_ (1886) and his _Religion of the Semites_ (new ed., 1894).
[1889] The a.s.sumption that the victim is a totem is not necessary to his argument, which rests on the sacredness (that is, the divinity) of the victim--a fact universally admitted.
[1890] Isa. lxv, lxvi.
[1891] Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central Australia_; id., _Native Tribes of Northern Australia_.
[1892] On this point and on Smith's theory in general see the exposition of the theory by Jevons, _Introduction to the History of Religion_, chap. xii.
[1893] _The Dying G.o.d_ (part iii of 3d ed. of _The Golden Bough_).
[1894] _Wald- und Feldkulte_, 2d ed., ii, 273 ff.
[1895] _L'annee sociologique_, ii, 115 ff.
[1896] Frazer, _The Dying G.o.d_, chap. ii, -- 2.
[1897] Cf. Frazer, _Adonis Attis Osiris_ (part iv of 3d ed.
of _The Golden Bough_); 2d ed. of _The Golden Bough_, ii, 365 f.
[1898] Article "Dido" in Roscher's _Lexikon_; Saussaye, _Religion of the Teutons_, p. 231.
[1899] For the view that Odin's self-sacrifice is merely an imitation of the reception into the Odin-cult see Meyer, _Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte_, p. 241.
[1900] _L'annee sociologique_, ii.
[1901] _Yajur-Veda_, pa.s.sim; _catapatha Brahmana_, i, 3, 6, 8; ii, 6, 2; Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 188 al.; Bloomfield, _Religion of the Veda_, pp. 31 ff., 215.
[1902] _Elements of the Science of Religion_ (Gifford Lectures), ii, 144 ff.
[1903] Plato (_Laws_, iii, 716) says that a bad man gets no benefit from sacrifice.
[1904] _Laws_, i, 631, 642.
[1905] Ps. xix, 7 ff.; cxix.
[1906] Ps. xl, 7; l, 8-15; li, 18 f., al.
[1907] Amos, v, 21 ff.; Isa. i, 11 ff.; Mic. vi, 6 ff.; Jer.
vii, 21 ff.
[1908] See Ellis, _E?e_ (Dahomi), _Ts.h.i.+_ (Ashanti), _Yoruba_; Miss Kingsley, _Travels_; Codrington, _The Melanesians_; Turner, _Samoa_; articles "Andeans," "Bantu,"
"Bengal," "Brazil," al., in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.
[1909] Rivers, _The Todas_, chaps. vi, xi, xiii.
[1910] Cf. also Crooke's _Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India_, in which similar customs are mentioned.
[1911] Chapter iii.
[1912] Dixon, _The Northern Maidu_ and _The Shasta_. For Korea see H. G. Underwood, _Religions of Eastern Asia_.
[1913] _L'annee sociologique_, ii; see above, -- 1049.
[1914] Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers. A single early detail is mentioned in 1 Sam. ii, 13 ff. For the later Jewish ceremonial see article "Sacrifice" in _Encyclopaedia Biblica_.
[1915] Mariette, _Abydos_; Maspero, _Dawn of Civilization_ (Eng. tr.), p. 121 ff.; Erman, _Handbook of Egyptian Religion_, pp. 46-49, 122, 179 f. (reports of Herodotus).
[1916] For Babylonia see Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and a.s.syria_, Index, s.v. _Rituals_; for Mazdean, De Harles, _Avesta_, Introduction, pp. clxvi, clxx.
[1917] _Journal of the American Oriental Society_, xx, 58 ff.; cf. De Groot, in Saussaye, _Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte_, p. 60 ff.
[1918] Foucart, _a.s.sociations religieuses chez les Grecs_; Jevons, _Introduction to History of Religion_, chap. xxiii; De Jong, _Das antike Mysterienwesen_, p. 18 ff.
[1919] c.u.mont, _Mysteries of Mithra_.
[1920] Apuleius, _Metamorphoses_, chap. xi.
[1921] 1 Cor. xi, 20 ff.; xiv (cf. Acts ii, 46); _Teaching of the Twelve Apostles_, chap. ix f.
[1922] So, for instance, postures in prayer, such as kneeling, bowing, standing.
[1923] The _Amarna Letters; Records of Ancient Egypt_, ed.
Breasted; cuneiform inscriptions. The Egyptian king, however, was regarded as divine.
[1924] Gibbon, chaps. xiii (Diocletian), xl, year 532; cf.
descriptions in Scott's _Count Robert of Paris_.
[1925] Daniel, _Codex Liturgicus_; articles "Liturgie" and "Messe" in Herzog-Hauck, _Real-Encyklopadie_; articles "Liturgy" and "Liturgical Books" in Smith and Cheatham, _Dictionary of Christian Antiquities_.
[1926] Cf. J. Lippert, _Allgemeine Geschichte des Priesterthums_; Westermarck, _Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas_, Index, s.v. _Priests_.
[1927] On priestly taboos see Frazer, _Golden Bough_, 2d ed., Index, s.v.; these are often of the same sort as royal taboos. See above, -- 595 ff. For Hebrew priestly taboos see Ezek. xliv, Lev. xxi f.
[1928] Westermarck, _Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas_, i, 348, 381.
[1929] Not all these conditions were to be found in any one community.
[1930] Westermarck, op. cit., ii, 406 ff.
[1931] Pausanias, ii, 33, 3.
[1932] For a possible case see Wilkinson, _The Ancient Egyptians_, 1st ed., i, 317.
[1933] Ellis, _E?e_, p. 141; Ward, _History, Literature and Religion of the Hindoos_, ii, 134; Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and a.s.syria_, p. 660; Hos. iv, 14; Deut. xxiii, 17 f. (prohibition); Gen. x.x.xviii, 14 ff.
[1934] Erman, _Handbook of Egyptian Religion_, pp. 72, 221, is disposed to reject the statement of Strabo (xvii, i, 46) that there was libertinage at Thebes. Cf. Wilkinson, _The Ancient Egyptians_, Index, s.v. _Priestesses_.
