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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)

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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.

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

Origin of the world and of the gods--The generations of
    the gods--Gods of the Grecians--Specimen stories from
    Greek mythology--Hermes and Apollo--The Lotus-eaters
    and the Cyclops--Hercules’ twelve tasks--The Phidian
    Jupiter--Grecian temples and worship of Paul’s day--The
    city crowded with idols--Diana of the Ephesians,                150


                              CHAPTER IX.

                                 ROME.

    The Etruscan religion--The Sabellian religion--The gods of
    the Romans--Father Jove--The Matron goddess--The goddess of
    schools--The goddess of the hearth--Ceres and Liber--The
    gods of beginnings--Rome’s lesser gods--The Roman empire,       173


                              CHAPTER X.

                            OUR ANCESTORS.

    Ancient Britain--The Druids--Wonderful resemblance--Worship
    of the Druids--Temple of the Hanging Stones--Human
    sacrifices--The destruction of Druidism--Who first brought
    Christianity to Britain--Paganism of the Saxons--Saxon
    gods--Saxon sacrifices--Fairy-lore of Western Europe--An
    Elfin Story--The penitent Nis--Nixes--The Peasant and the
    Waterman--The wonderful little pouch--Christianizing the
    Saxons,                                                         185


                              CHAPTER XI.

                                INDIA.

    Sketch of Brahminism--The gods of Hinduism--Story
    of the Sages’ search--Can the gods die?--Sects of
    Hinduism--Principles of Hinduism--Human beings killed in
    sacrifice--How Hinduism regards woman,                          210


                             CHAPTER XII.

                   HINDU TEMPLES, IDOLS AND WORSHIP.

    Idols and temples of Juggernaut--Kali, the Goddess of
    Blood--Temple Decorations--Benares--The sacred city of the
    Sikhs--Cave-temples of Elephanta and Gwalior--Ganesha, God
    of Wisdom--Pagodas--Hindu washings for sin--Hindu holy men,
    devotees and fakirs,                                            232


                             CHAPTER XIII.

         HINDU SACRED BOOKS, FAIRY STORIES AND FIRESIDE TALES.

    The Vedic hymns--The law-book of Manu--Degradation of
    women according to Manu’s laws--The burning of widows
    commanded by Manu--The god Vishnu made man--A Sanskrit
    story-book--The story of the terrible bell--The story of
    the lion and the old hare--The story of the Brahmin and the
    pans--The story of the recluse and the mouse,                   288


                             CHAPTER XIV.

                                JAPAN.

    The sacred books of Japan--Japanese story of creation--The
    emperors descended from the gods--The sun-goddess enticed
    from the cave--Shinto worship,                                  305


                              CHAPTER XV.

                POPULAR GODS AND SHRINES OF SHINTOISM.

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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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