Myth, Ritual and Religion, כרך 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1899 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Aditi adored amours ancient animals Apollo Artemis Aryan Asvins Athene attributes Australian Aztec Baiame beasts belief birth Bitiou borrowed Brahmana bull Bushmen Cagn called character chief civilised connected contes Cosquin Cronus cult culture-hero custom Daramulun dawn dead death deity Demeter Dionysus divine earth Egypt Egyptian religion elemental European evidence example explained father goddess gods Greece Greek heaven Heitsi Heitsi Eibib Hera Hermes Herodotus Hesiod Homer Homeric hymn Horus Howitt Huitzilopochtli human hymn Ibid ideas Iliad Indian Indra Ioskeha Khoi-Khoi Kurnai legend magical märchen Maspero Max Müller Michabo missionaries moral mother Muir mysteries myth mythical mythology native natural opinion origin Osiris Pausanias Pelasgian perhaps phenomena Preller probably races recognised regarded religious Rig-Veda rites ritual sacred sacrifice Saranyu savage says shape soma story tale theory things totem traditions tree tribes Varuna Veda Vedic Vritra worship Yehl Zeus Zuñis
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 60 - ... eat. The god was supposed to avenge the insult by taking up his abode in that person's body, and causing to generate there the very thing which he had eaten, until it produced death. This class of genii, or tutelary deities, they called aitu fale, or gods of the house.
עמוד 309 - A work of great interest might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction, and the transmission of similar tales from age to age, and from country to country.
עמוד 210 - Verily the blessed gods love not froward deeds, but they reverence justice and the righteous acts of men. Yet even foes and men unfriendly, that land on a strange coast, and Zeus grants them a prey, and they have laden their ships and depart for home ; yea, even on their hearts falls strong fear of the wrath of the gods. But lo you, these men know somewhat, — for they have heard an utterance of a god...
עמוד 60 - A man would eat freely of what was regarded as the incarnation of the god of another man, but the incarnation of his own particular god he would consider it death to injure or eat.
עמוד 356 - It is a matter worthy of consideration, that the accounts of similar phenomena of culture, recurring in different parts of the world, actually supply incidental proof of their own authenticity. Some years since, a question which brings out this point was put to me by a great historian — 'How can a statement as to customs, myths, beliefs, &c., of a savage tribe...
עמוד 356 - This question is, indeed, one which every ethnographer ought to keep clearly and constantly before his mind. Of course he is bound to use his best judgment as to the trustworthiness of all authors he quotes, and if possible to obtain several accounts to certify each point in each locality. But it is over and above these measures of precaution that the test of recurrence comes in. If two independent visitors to different countries, say a mediaeval Mohammedan in Tartary and a modern Englishman in Dahome,...
עמוד 54 - The word became fruitful; It dwelt with the feeble glimmering; It brought forth night: The great night, the long night, The lowest night, the loftiest night, The thick night to be felt, The night to be touched, the night unseen.
עמוד 356 - Some years since a question which brings out this point was put to me by a great historian, "How can a statement as to customs, myths, beliefs, etc., of a savage tribe be treated as evidence where it depends on the testimony of some traveller or missionary who may be a superficial observer, more or less ignorant of the native language, a careless retailer of unsifted talk, a man prejudiced, or even wilfully deceitful ? " This question is, indeed, one which every ethnographer ought to keep clearly...
עמוד 61 - This was thought pleasing to the deity. Then the bird would be wrapped up and buried with care and ceremony, as if it were a human body. This, however, was not the death of the god.
עמוד 356 - ... needs no farther showing to any one who will even glance at the foot-notes of the present work. And the more odd the statement, the less likely that several people in several places should have made it wrongly. This being so, it seems reasonable to judge that the statements are in the main truly given, and that their close and regular coincidence is due to the cropping up of similar facts in various districts of culture. Now the most important facts of ethnography are vouched for in this way.