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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

The Peruvians worshiped the sun, moon, the evening star, the spirit
of thunder and the rainbow, and had erected temples in Cuzco to all
these deities. That of the sun, which was the most magnificent, had its
walls covered with plates of pure gold. The sacrifices consisted of the
objects most prized by the people--of grain, and of fruits, of a few
animals, and of the productions of their own industry. Sun-worship, as
it is the most rational of all forms of idolatry, is also generally the
most mild; and doubtless this results from the tendency which it has
to fix the thoughts on the marks of beneficence and wisdom which are
displayed in the works of nature. The Peruvian temples were accordingly
never polluted, like those of Mexico, with the blood of human victims;
and the Incas even went farther, and signalized their zeal against such
horrid rites, by suppressing them in all the countries they conquered.

  [Illustration: ANCIENT PERUVIAN TEMPLE OF THE SUN.]

The temple of the Sun at Cuzco, called _Coricancha_ or “Place of
Gold,” was the most magnificent edifice in the empire. On the western
wall, and opposite the eastern portal, was a splendid representation of
the sun, the god of the nation. It consisted of a human face in gold,
with innumerable golden rays emanating from it in every direction; and
when the early beams of the morning sun fell upon this brilliant golden
disc, they were reflected from it as from a mirror, and again reflected
throughout the whole temple by the numberless plates, cornices, bands
and images of gold, until the temple seemed to glow with a sunshine
more intense and glorious than that of nature.




                            CHAPTER XVIII.

                       THE ISLANDS OF THE SEAS.

   I believe that the ignorance which has prevailed regarding the
   mythological systems of barbarous or semi-barbarous races has
   too generally led to their being considered far grander and more
   reasonable than they really were.--W. VON HUMBOLDT.


Oceanica is one of the five great divisions of the globe. It embraces
all the islands lying in the Pacific Ocean between the south-eastern
shores of Asia and the western shores of America.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Opening the text

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

The Peruvians worshiped the sun, moon, the evening star, the spirit
of thunder and the rainbow, and had erected temples in Cuzco to all
these deities. That of the sun, which was the most magnificent, had its
walls covered with plates of pure gold. The sacrifices consisted of the
objects most prized by the people--of grain, and of fruits, of a few
animals, and of the productions of their own industry. Sun-worship, as
it is the most rational of all forms of idolatry, is also generally the
most mild; and doubtless this results from the tendency which it has
to fix the thoughts on the marks of beneficence and wisdom which are
displayed in the works of nature. The Peruvian temples were accordingly
never polluted, like those of Mexico, with the blood of human victims;
and the Incas even went farther, and signalized their zeal against such
horrid rites, by suppressing them in all the countries they conquered.

  [Illustration: ANCIENT PERUVIAN TEMPLE OF THE SUN.]

The temple of the Sun at Cuzco, called _Coricancha_ or “Place of
Gold,” was the most magnificent edifice in the empire. On the western
wall, and opposite the eastern portal, was a splendid representation of
the sun, the god of the nation. It consisted of a human face in gold,
with innumerable golden rays emanating from it in every direction; and
when the early beams of the morning sun fell upon this brilliant golden
disc, they were reflected from it as from a mirror, and again reflected
throughout the whole temple by the numberless plates, cornices, bands
and images of gold, until the temple seemed to glow with a sunshine
more intense and glorious than that of nature.




                            CHAPTER XVIII.

                       THE ISLANDS OF THE SEAS.

   I believe that the ignorance which has prevailed regarding the
   mythological systems of barbarous or semi-barbarous races has
   too generally led to their being considered far grander and more
   reasonable than they really were.--W. VON HUMBOLDT.


Oceanica is one of the five great divisions of the globe. It embraces
all the islands lying in the Pacific Ocean between the south-eastern
shores of Asia and the western shores of America.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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.

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.

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