The Serpent Symbol, and the Worship of the Reciprocal Principles of Nature in AmericaG. P. Putnam, 1851 - 254 pages |
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... of mankind , was supposed to be FIRE . When therefore any spe- cial favor was needed , it was made known to Fire , accompanied by an offering . It was considered as an intermediate being nearest 68 AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES .
... of mankind , was supposed to be FIRE . When therefore any spe- cial favor was needed , it was made known to Fire , accompanied by an offering . It was considered as an intermediate being nearest 68 AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES .
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Ephraim George Squier. offering . It was considered as an intermediate being nearest the Sun , and received homage from the Cherokees , as the same element did from the Eastern Magi . It was extended to smoke , which was esteemed Fire's ...
Ephraim George Squier. offering . It was considered as an intermediate being nearest the Sun , and received homage from the Cherokees , as the same element did from the Eastern Magi . It was extended to smoke , which was esteemed Fire's ...
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... offerings were made to her , and her power was esteemed very great . She has six children , three sons and three daughters , who abide in different stars . The eldest son is the Day ( first born of the creation ) , the second is the sun ...
... offerings were made to her , and her power was esteemed very great . She has six children , three sons and three daughters , who abide in different stars . The eldest son is the Day ( first born of the creation ) , the second is the sun ...
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... offerings to the gods were always erected upon tombs , or in their immediate vicinity . The sanctity of the Acropolis of Athens , owed its origin to the sepulchre of Cecrops ; and without this leading cause of vene- ration , the ...
... offerings to the gods were always erected upon tombs , or in their immediate vicinity . The sanctity of the Acropolis of Athens , owed its origin to the sepulchre of Cecrops ; and without this leading cause of vene- ration , the ...
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... offerings of the Chinese to the Deities were originally made on large heaps of stones , and generally on the summits of high mountains , as they seemed to them to be nearer heaven , to the majesty of which they were to be offered ...
... offerings of the Chinese to the Deities were originally made on large heaps of stones , and generally on the summits of high mountains , as they seemed to them to be nearer heaven , to the majesty of which they were to be offered ...
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aboriginal Abury according adoration altars amongst ancient attributes Aztecs Brahma Buddha called Central America centre ceremonies CHAPTER character Cherokees Chichen-itza Cihuacohuatl Cinteotl circle Codex Codex Vaticanus connection continent corresponding cosmogony Creator Damascius deity described divine doctrine earth Egypt Egyptian emblem erected existed fact Father feet high female festival figure fire globe goddess gods head heaven Herrara Hindu Hist Huitzlipochtli human hundred idea idol Indians Kneph languages Lingham male Manabozho Mayapan Mexican Mexico Mississippi monuments Moon mounds Mundane Egg mythology nations nature observed Ophites origin ornaments Osiris paintings Palenque Peruvians Phallus Priapus priest primitive pyramid Quetzalcoatl race reciprocal principles religion religious remarkable representations represented resemblance respect rites sacred sacrifices says sculptured sepulchral SERPENT SYMBOL serpentine significance similar Siva solar spirit square Stephens stone structures superstition supposed Supreme sustained temple Teotihuacan terraces Tezcatlipoca tion Tlaloc traditions tribes Uxmal various Yucatan
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Page 158 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Page 164 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page xi - Newenglanders, had been forlorn and wretched heathen ever since their first herding here; and though we know not when or how these Indians first became inhabitants of this mighty continent, yet we may guess that probably the Devil decoyed those miserable salvages hither, in hopes that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his absolute empire over them.
Page 147 - For the purpose of regeneration, it is directed to make an image of pure gold of the female power of nature ; in the shape either of a woman or of a cow. In this statue the person to be regenerated is enclosed and dragged through the usual channel.
Page 138 - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page 234 - He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made : for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it : and he called it Nehushtan.
Page 27 - We must not be surprised," he says, " at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes [Benares] mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names.
Page 160 - Perfect truth; perfect happiness; without equal ; immortal; absolute unity; whom neither speech can describe, nor mind comprehend ; all-pervading ; all-transcending; delighted with his own boundless intelligence, not limited by space or time ; without feet, moving swiftly ; without hands, grasping all worlds ; without eyes, all-surveying ; without ears, all-hearing ; without an intelligent guide, understanding all ; without cause, the first of all causes ; all-ruling; all-powerful; the Creator, Preserver,...
Page 123 - ... a great spacious house, wherein only some few (that are, as we may term them, priests) come. Thither, at certain known times, resort all their people, and offer almost all the riches they have to their gods, as kettles, skins, hatchets, beads, knives, etc., all which are cast by the priests into a great fire that they make in the midst of the house, and there consumed to ashes.
Page 146 - Egyptians ; for this animal was esteemed by him to be the most inspired of all the reptiles, and of a fiery nature, inasmuch as it exhibits an incredible celerity, moving by its spirit without either hands or feet, or any of those external...