The Serpent Symbol, and the Worship of the Reciprocal Principles of Nature in AmericaG. P. Putnam, 1851 - 254 sider |
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Side 38
... water - lily , is held sacred throughout the East ; and the various sects of that quarter of the globe represent their deities either decorated with its flowers , holding it as a sceptre , or seated on These examples illustrate the ...
... water - lily , is held sacred throughout the East ; and the various sects of that quarter of the globe represent their deities either decorated with its flowers , holding it as a sceptre , or seated on These examples illustrate the ...
Side 39
... water plant resembling the lotus in her hands , or with the plant springing up from the waters beside her , upon which she is reposing . the producer ; their annual offspring was HORUS , the RECIPROCAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURE . 39.
... water plant resembling the lotus in her hands , or with the plant springing up from the waters beside her , upon which she is reposing . the producer ; their annual offspring was HORUS , the RECIPROCAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURE . 39.
Side 68
... water , the Sun , under the title of creator , is implored to grant them a long and blissful life ; and in many cases a request is added to take their spirits and bear them with him until he has ascended to the meridian , that is until ...
... water , the Sun , under the title of creator , is implored to grant them a long and blissful life ; and in many cases a request is added to take their spirits and bear them with him until he has ascended to the meridian , that is until ...
Side 69
... waters , whence their ancestors came . Some represent a portion of it as having been brought with them , and sacredly guarded . Others say that after crossing wide waters they sent back for it to the Man of Fire , from whom a little was ...
... waters , whence their ancestors came . Some represent a portion of it as having been brought with them , and sacredly guarded . Others say that after crossing wide waters they sent back for it to the Man of Fire , from whom a little was ...
Side 70
... waters ; out of which , by the gods , were made all diversitie of creatures that are visible or invisible . " ( Hackluyt , vol . iii . p . 276. ) The Mandns on the Missouri were not less devoted sun - worshippers than the Cherokees ...
... waters ; out of which , by the gods , were made all diversitie of creatures that are visible or invisible . " ( Hackluyt , vol . iii . p . 276. ) The Mandns on the Missouri were not less devoted sun - worshippers than the Cherokees ...
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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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Side 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.
Side 164 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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,...
Side 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.
Side 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...