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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

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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

The seven household gods--The sacred mountain--Shinto
    temples and gate-ways--The sacred shrines of Ise,               321


                             CHAPTER XVI.

                          THE DARK CONTINENT.

    African belief in a god or gods--Praying for rain--The
    Hottentots’ god, Gounja-Gounja--The Bushmen’s
    god--Zulu tradition of the origin of men--Good and bad
    spirits--The spirit in the insect--Fetich worship--A
    horrible fetich--Stanley and the Africans’ fear of
    fetich--Witchcraft,                                             341


                             CHAPTER XVII.

                    THE “GREAT SPIRIT” OF AMERICA.

    The Indians of North America--The Great Spirit--Worship of
    ancestors--Indian legends--The “Song of Hiawatha”--Indian
    allegory of winter and spring--Alaskans’ worship of evil
    spirits--Indian sun-worship--Amazon sun-worship--The
    Araucanians--Patagonia--The Aztecs--Ancient Aztec idol--The
    Incas,                                                          362


                            CHAPTER XVIII.

                         IDOLATRY IN OCEANICA.

    The depraved condition of the Papuans--The
    pagan Polynesians--Traditionary origin of human
    priesthood--Polynesian notion of the sun and moon--The
    fire-god’s song,                                                387


                             CHAPTER XIX.

                   THE KARENS AND THEIR TRADITIONS.

    The Karens not idolaters--Worship of _Yuah_--A singular
    tradition--The dog who ate the book--Funeral services--Mrs.
    Vinton’s letter,                                                401


                              CHAPTER XX.

                         THE FIRE-WORSHIPERS.

    Zoroaster, the Prophet of Ormazd--Zoroaster’s worship
    of one God--Ormazd and Ahriman--Finding of the
    Zend-Avesta--The Parsee Bible--Parsee worship,                  407


                             CHAPTER XXI.

                  THE CHINESE PHILOSOPHER, LAO-TSZE.

    Chinese contrarieties and language--The three Chinese
    religions--The old boy--The talisman of long life--The
    visit of Confucius to Lao-Tsze--The voyage in search of the
    talisman of long life,                                          416


                             CHAPTER XXII.

                   THE TAOIST SACRED BOOKS AND GODS.

    The book of rewards and punishments--Some selections
    from the book of rewards and punishments--The book of
    secret blessings--The gods of the Taoists--The god of
    letters--Charms--Kwan-te, God of War--Tsai-shin, the God of
    Riches--Taoist superstitions,                                   428


                            CHAPTER XXIII.

                      CONFUCIUS AND THE CLASSICS.

    The background of the picture--The story of the sage’s
    life--Teachings and writings of the Chinese sage--The
    wisdom of the sage,                                             445

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