Myth, Ritual and Religion, Volume 1Longmans, 1901 - Anthropology |
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Africa Ahone Aitareya Brahmana American ancient Andamanese animals Aryan Ataentsic Australian Baiame barbaric beasts belief birds borrowed Brahmanas Bushmen chief Christian conception cosmogonic myths Creator Cronus deity Dionysus divine early earth element evidence evolution example existence explain fable fancy father folk-lore Garcilasso ghosts gods Greece Greek myths heaven hero Hesiod Homer human sacrifices hymns hypothesis ideas Incas Indra Ioskeha Kamilaroi Kurnai later legend Lobeck magic Maori Max Müller medicine-man Michabo missionary moon moral Muir mysteries mythical mythology native natural origin Orphic Pausanias philosophers Pindar plants poets Popol Vuh Prajapati priests primitive Procne Pund-jel Purusha recognised Red Indians regarded religion religious Rig-Veda rites ritual sacred savage myths savagery says shape Smith sorcerers spirits stars stone stories Strachey Strachey's supernatural survival swallowed temple theory things thought tion totem tradition trees tribe Tylor Veda Vedic worship Zealand Zeus Zulus
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Page 339 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
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Page 235 - When (the gods) divided Purusha, into how many parts did they cut him up? What was his mouth? What arms (had he)? What (two objects) are said (to have been) his thighs and feet? The Brahman was his mouth; the Rajanya was made his arms; the being (called) the Vaisya, he was his thighs; the Sudra sprang from his feet.
Page 235 - When the gods performed a sacrifice with Purusha, as the oblation, the spring was its butter, the summer its fuel, and the autumn its (accompanying) offering. 7. This victim, Purusha, born in the beginning, they immolated on the sacrificial grass.
Page 89 - Man's craving to know the causes at work in each event he witnesses, the reasons why each state of things he surveys is such as it is and no other, is no product of high civilisation, but a characteristic of his race down to its lowest stages. Among rude savages it is already an intellectual appetite, whose satisfaction claims many of the moments not engrossed by war or sport, food or sleep.
Page 58 - ... what men's eyes behold is but the instrument to be used or the material to be shaped, while behind it there stands some prodigious but yet half-human creature, who grasps it with his hands or blows it with his breath. The basis on which such ideas as these are built is not to be narrowed down to poetic fancy and transformed metaphor. They rest upon a broad philosophy of nature; early and crude, indeed, but thoughtful, consistent, and quite really and seriously meant.
Page 243 - How can we be reproduced ?' So saying, they toiled, they performed austerity. While they were performing austerity, a golden egg came into existence. Being produced, it then became a year. Wherefore this golden egg floated about for the period of a year. From it in a year a male (purusha) came into existence, who was Prajipati.
Page 16 - I bethink me of a very new and ingenious notion which occurs to me ; and, if I do not mind, I shall be wiser than I ought to be by to-morrow's dawn. My notion is, that we may put in and pull out letters at pleasure and alter the accents...
Page 236 - When the gods, performing sacrifice, bound Purusha as a victim, there were seven sticks (stuck up) for it (around the fire), and thrice seven pieces of fuel were made. With sacrifice the gods performed the sacrifice. These were the earliest rites. These great powers have sought the sky, where are the former Sadhyas, gods.
Page 5 - The second mood, that of playful and erratic fancy, is conspicuous in the buffoonery of Miracle Plays, in Mdrchen, these burlesque popular tales about our Lord and the Apostles, and in the hideous and grotesque sculptures on sacred edifices. The two moods are present, and in conflict, through the whole religious history of the human race.