Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)
Religion
Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.
Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)
Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions
Gate-way of Madura Temple 270
Pagoda of Pondicherry, famed for its Sculpture 271
Disused Idols and sacred articles from Ongole, India 272
Bird’s-eye view of Pagodas and Temple Grounds,
Madras, India _Full Pages_ 274–5
Hindus washing in the Sacred River Ganges at Benares 277
Temple of the Sacred Fountain 278
Fakir of the Immovable Foot 279
The Holy Man with the Iron Collar 280
Fakir of the Long Hair 281
A Fakir, who never helps himself 282
A Hindu Holy Man torturing himself by hanging from a hook 283
Fakir hanging to a limb 284
Devotee enduring fire 285
Fakir of the long nails _Full Page_ 286
Hindu Festival of the New Moon 289
Guards of the Hindu Temple Ayenar 292
Hindu women rescued from their degradation _Full Page_ 297
The ten incarnations of Vishnu 300
The God created from Izanagi’s staff 310
Jimmu Tenno, first emperor of Japan 313
The Mikado’s coat-of-arms 317
Raiden, God of Thunder, with his string of drums 318
Futen, God of Winds, with his huge sack 319
Daikoku, the Rice-god, on his throne of rice-bags 322
Fukoruku Jin, the god who can bestow long life _Full Page_ 323
Domestic Altar of the gods of daily food and of rice 326
Hotei, the God of Happiness 327
The Sacred Mountain, Fuji-Yama 330
Shinto Shrine, near Yokohama, Japan, with worshipers,
vessel of holy water, etc. 331
A Tento, or “Heavenly Lantern” 332
Shrines of Ise, the most sacred place of Shintoism 333
Interior of a Shinto Temple, showing the arrangements
for worship 335
Ceremonial dance of the Shinto Priests 338
A lawyer of Zululand 343
King Coffee’s Protecting God 346
The Priests’ trick of raising an idol out of the earth 348
A Cazembe Fetich Man 351
Decorated Fetichist 352
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