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Common terms and phrasesaboriginal according adored altars American race amongst ancient attributes Aztecs Brahma called Central America centre ceremonies CHAPTER character Cherokees Chichen-itza Cinteotl Codex Codex Vaticanus connection continent corresponding cosmogony Creator Damascius deity described divine doctrine earth Egypt Egyptian Egyptian Mythology emblem erected existed fact Father feet high festival figure fire globe goddess gods heaven Herrara Hindu Hist Huitzlipochtli human hundred idea idol Incas Indians Kneph languages Lingham Manabozho Mayapan Mexican Mexico monuments Moon mounds Mundane Egg mysteries mythology nations nature observed origin ornaments Osiris paintings Palenque Peruvians Phallus Priapus priest primitive pyramid Quetzalcoatl reciprocal principles religion religious remarkable representations represented resemblance respect rites sacred sacrifices says sculptured sepulchral serpent SERPENT SYMBOL signifies similar Siva solar spirit square Stephens stone structures superstition supposed Supreme symbol temple terraces Tezcatlipoca things tion Tlaloc traditions Triad tribes Unity Uxmal various Vishnu Yucatan Popular passagesPage 170 - 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 176 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. Page 13 - 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 158 - 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 148 - 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 246 - 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 37 - 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 172 - 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 133 - ... 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 156 - 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... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarAn Analysis of the Symbolism Expressed by the Birger FigurineGuy Prentice - 1986 - American Antiquity References from web pagesThe American Angler's Guide -- The American Art Union: in Cornell ... Bibliographic information
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