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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. — John Shaqi

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

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    PREFACE,                                                          5

    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS,                                           17


                              CHAPTER I.

                      THE WORLD’S FIRST WORSHIP.

    Testimony of an old record and of language--Another
    witness: comparative religion--The story of the master
    thief--The story of Rhampsinitos--The story of the poor
    mason--The story of the shifty lad--Exodus of the nations,       33


                              CHAPTER II.

                 WHENCE CAME THE MANY GODS AND IDOLS?

    Sources of information--The transition--The first hymns and
    prayers--Where did idol-worship come from,                       47


                             CHAPTER III.

                    SACRED AND HEATHEN TRADITIONS.

    Traditions of Creation--Traditions of the Deluge--The
    Chaldean story--The Hindu tradition--The Chinese
    tradition--The Mexican legend--The Fiji-Islander’s
    tradition--American Indian traditions--The Greek
    story--Chaldean story of the Tower of Babel--What has the
    Bible to say about idolatry?                                     63


                              CHAPTER IV.

                      THE SUBJECT IN A NUTSHELL.

    Methods of grouping religions--Dead religions and
    living religions--Original religions and reformed
    religions--Dead religions--Living worships--The
    proposed treatment--A concise view--Parseeism--African
    religion--Western Europe--The Southern
    migration--Buddhism--China’s religions--Shintoism in
    Japan--Mohammedanism--Christianity’s conquests,                  77


                              CHAPTER V.

                        THE LAND OF THE SPHINX.

    Hidden history--The hieroglyphics--Some Egyptian
    gods--Animal worship--Mummies--The celebrated book of the
    dead--Egyptian worship,                                          93


                              CHAPTER VI.

                            THE CHALDEANS.

    The great Chaldean historian--Ruined monuments--A library
    of brick books--Manners and customs--The religion of
    Assyria--The supreme god, Ilu--The Assyrian triad--The gods
    of the planets--The great goddess Ishtar--The Genii of
    Assyria--Worship of the gods at Babylon,                        119


                             CHAPTER VII.

                               THE JEWS.

    The plagues and Egyptian idolatry--The golden
    calf--Baal-worship,                                             138


                             CHAPTER VIII.

                                GREECE.

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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.

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