The Religions of the Ancient WorldReligious Tract Society, 1882 - 277 pàgines |
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The Religions of the Ancient World: Including Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia ... George Rawlinson Visualització completa - 1883 |
The Religions of the Ancient World: Including Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia ... George Rawlinson Visualització completa - 1890 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 136 - If I go along trembling like a cloud driven by the wind, have mercy, almighty, have mercy.
Pàgina 170 - Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Pàgina 122 - Each god is to the mind of the supplicant as good as all the gods. He is felt, at the time, as a real divinity — as supreme and absolute, in spite of the necessary limitations which, to our mind, a plurality of gods must entail on every single god. All the rest disappear for a moment from the vision of the poet, and he only who is to fulfil their desires stands in full light before the eyes of the worshippers.
Pàgina 136 - Thirst came upon the worshipper, though he stood in the midst of the waters ; have mercy, Almighty, have mercy ! 5.
Pàgina 46 - Their usual phrase when speaking of him is " Asshur, my lord." They represent themselves as passing their lives in his service. It is to spread his worship that they carry on their wars. They fight, ravage, destroy in his name. Finally, when they subdue a country, they are careful to " set up the emblems of Asshur," and teach the people his laws and his worship.
Pàgina 140 - Vaivasvata reigns, where the secret place of heaven is, where these mighty waters are, there make me immortal ! ' Where life is free, in the third heaven of heavens, where the worlds are radiant, there make me immortal...
Pàgina 81 - I sent the animals forth to the four winds, I poured out a libation, I built an altar on the peak of the mountain, by seven herbs I cut, at the bottom of them I placed reeds, pines, and simgar. The gods collected at its burning, the gods collected at its good burning; the gods like flies over the sacrifice gathered.
Pàgina 222 - With gay religions full of pomp and gold, And devils to adore for deities : Then were they known to men by various names, And various idols through the heathen world.
Pàgina 101 - Homa ceremony consisted in the extraction of the juice of the Homa plant by the priests during the recitation of prayers, the formal presentation of the liquid extracted to the sacrificial fire, the consumption of a small portion of it by one of the officiating priests, and the division of the remainder among the worshippers.