Till fragan om uppkomsten af sakramentala måltider med särskild hänsyn till totemismen ...Almqvist & Wiksells boktryekeri-a.-b., 1908 - 167 pages |
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a. a. ss alldeles animal animismen anser araras arawakerna Australia australiska Azteken behöfver blifva blifvit blott BOAS bruk brödet bärare ceremonier CROOKE danser dionysiska Dionysos djur djurart dyrkare döda emellan emellertid exogami fest finna FRAZER fått företeelse förhållandet GENNEP golden bough grupp gudaätning guden gudom hafva hamatserna HAMMARSTEDT HARTLAND helt hemliga sällskapen HOWITT hufvudsakligen Huitzilopochtli huru hvarje hvilka hvilket hålla HÖFLER indianerna initiationsriterna intet JEVONS Jmfr julbröd klanen lefvande ligen M'LENNAN Madagaskar MANNHARDT matriarkat Mexiko mismen myter människor mässoffret name namn native tribes ning offer offren offret ofvan område omtalade polyteismens religion religionshistorien religiösa Reuterskiöld RÉVILLE riter ROBERTSON-SMITH sammanhang SCHURTZ Semites sista kärfven själfva verket skola sociala SPENCER and GILLEN SPENCER och GILLEN späckhuggare stam stammar Såkaka och såöl särskildt tabu tjur Tlaloc tlinkiterna tote totem totemet totemismen totemistiska tribes tuppen tydligt undersökning uppfattning uppkomst ursprungliga verkligen växt växtlighetsriterna åter äfven äta ätande ätandet öfver öfverhufvud
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Page 80 - Frazer,5 and that here suggested is, that according to him totemism ' is primarily an organised and co-operative system of magic designed to secure for the members of the community, on the one hand, a plentiful supply of all the commodities of which they stand in need, and, on the other hand, immunity from all the perils and dangers to which man is exposed in his struggle with nature. Each totem group, on this theory, was charged with the superintendence and control of some department of nature from...
Page 19 - The complete proof of early totemism in any race involves the following points : (1) the existence of stocks named after plants and animals ; (2) the prevalence of the conception that the members of the stock are of the blood of the eponym animal, or are sprung from a plant of the species chosen as totem ; (3) the ascription to the totem of a sacred character...
Page 95 - blow " or "breathe,'' whence the compound preterite uz-on, twice used in the fifteenth chapter of St. Mark's Gospel to render egeTrvev&e, " gave up the ghost." Lastly, the lesson which the words in question contain for the student of man is that the Celts, and certain other widely separated Aryans, unless we should rather say the whole Aryan family, believed at one time not only that the name was a part of the man, but that it was that part of him which is termed the soul, the breath of life, or...
Page 62 - bina," to dance, in reference to the custom of thus naming themselves, so that, when you wish to ascertain what tribe they belong to, you say, " What do you dance ?" It would seem as if that had been a part of the worship of old.
Page 78 - ... but this is the first case on record of a tribe who believe in immaculate conception as the sole cause of the birth of every human being who comes into the world". A people so ignorant of the most elementary of natural processes may well rank at the very bottom of the savage scale.
Page 22 - McLennan's totem hypothesis over all previous theories of primitive heathenism is that it does justice to the intimate relation between religion and the fundamental structure of society which is so characteristic of the ancient world...
Page 23 - And here we shall go very far wrong if we take it for granted that what is the most important and prominent side of religion to us was equally important in the ancient society with which we are to deal. In connection with every religion, whether ancient or modern, we find on the one hand certain beliefs, and on the other certain institutions ritual practices 'and rules of conduct. Our modern habit is to look at religion from the side of belief rather than of practice...
Page 29 - We have already pointed out that there are certain men who are especially respected for their ability, and, after watching large numbers of the tribe, at a time when they were assembled together for months to perform certain of their most sacred ceremonies, we have come to the conclusion that at a time such as this, when the older and more powerful men from various groups are met together, and when day by day and night by night around their camp fires they discuss matters of tribal interest it is...
Page 95 - However this may have been among the primitive Aryans, it is quite certain that many savages at the present day regard their names as vital parts of themselves, and therefore take great pains to conceal their real names, lest these should give to evildisposed persons a handle by which to injure their owners.
Page 78 - Thus, in the opinion of these savages, every conception is what we are wont to call an immaculate conception, being brought about by the entrance into the mother of a spirit apart from any contact with the other sex. Students of folklore have long been familiar with notions of this sort occurring in the stories of the birth of miraculous personages ; but this is the first case on record of a tribe who believe in immaculate conception as the sole cause of the birth of every human being who comes into...