 | 1860 - 620 pàgines
...this hidi'ous performance, a prayer is offered up to Tari, which terminates in these words, "We arc ignorant of what it is good to ask for. You know what is good for us. Give it to us ;" a petition which might be extracted from a Christian prayer. Along with this practice of human sacrifice,... | |
 | 1858 - 788 pàgines
...their burned hands; let our heads ever strike against brass pots innumerable hanging from our roofc; let the rats form their nests of shreds of scarlet...sense, not only of the need of sacrifice, but of a sacrifice which shall be 'for the whole world.' Out of this sacrifice arises human society itself;... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1852 - 910 pàgines
...that the care of them shall overcome their parents — as shall be seen by their burned hands; let onr heads ever strike against brass pots innumerable hanging...ask for. You know what is good for us. Give it to us !" When the victim is cut to pieces, the persons who have been deputed by each village to bring its... | |
 | Peter Percival - 1854 - 582 pàgines
...numerous that they cannot be housed ; let children so abound that the care of them shall overcome the parents — as shall be seen by their burned hands...for. You know what is good for us. Give it to us." The bullock sacrificed is then cut to pieces and distributed. Those who have come from distant villages... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1859 - 524 pàgines
...let our heads ever strike against brass pots innumerable hanging from our roofs ; let the ratsform their nests of shreds of scarlet cloth and silk ;...for. You know what is good for us. Give it to us. When the victim has been cut to pieces, the deputies, who have been sent from the several villages... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1859 - 526 pàgines
...heads ever strike against brass pots innumerable hanging from our roofs ; let the rats form their neets of shreds of scarlet cloth and silk ; let all the...for. You know what is good for us. Give it to us. When the victim has been cut to pieces, the deputies, who have been sent from the several villages... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1859 - 416 pàgines
...cloth and silk ; let all the kites in the country be seen in the trees of our village, from beasta being killed there every day. We are ignorant of what...for. You know what is good for us. Give it to us. When the victim has been cut to pieces, the deputies, who have been sent from the several villages... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 pàgines
...Yet, after this hideous performance, a prayer is offered up to Tari, which terminates in these words, "We are ignorant of what it is good to ask for. You know what is good for us. Give it to us ;" a petition which might be extracted from a Christian prayer. Along with this practice of human sacrifice,... | |
 | Caleb Wright, J. A. Brainerd - 1863 - 372 pàgines
...be seen by their burned hands' let our heads ever strike against brass pots innumera-' ble hangtng from our roofs; let the rats form their nests of shreds...for. You know what is good for us. Give it to us." Representatives from distant villages, who have come for the purpose of obtaining a portion of the... | |
 | Samuel Charters Macpherson - 1865 - 440 pàgines
...therefore, by our cattle, our flocks, our pigs, and our grain we procured a victim and offered a sacrifice. Do you now enrich us. Let our herds be so numerous...ask for. You know what is good for us. Give it to us ! ' When the victim is cut to pieces, the persons who have been deputed by each village to bring its... | |
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... parents, as shall be seen by their burned hands ; let our heads ever strike against brass pots innumerable hanging from our roofs ; let the rats form their nests of shreds of scarlet cloth and silk ; let all the kites in the country be seen in the... 
