Religions of Primitive PeoplesBrinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)
Religion
Religions of Primitive Peoples
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)
Mythology; Religion; Religions -- History
Tonantzin, an Aztec deity, 145
Tongues, the gift of, 93
Tota, a Mexican deity, 151, 167
Totemic animals, the, 161;
bond, the, 216
Tree of knowledge, the, 153
Trees, worship of, 150 _sq._
Trinities of heathen religions, 121
Tsuni ǁGoab, a deity of the Hottentots, 75
Tupa, a deity of the Dyaks, 123
Turramulun, an Australian god, 98
Tutelary personal deities, 192
Tzentals, customs of, 221, 222
Ukko, deity of Finns, 78
Umbilical cord, rites respecting, 194
Unconscious cerebration, 54
Unity of human intelligence, 9
Unkululu, deity of the Zulus, 168
Upanishads, teachings of the, 57, 83
Varuna, Sanscrit deity, 79
Vase, symbolism of the, 144
Vatea, a Polynesian deity, 75
Veddahs, the, 26
“Veiled gods” of Etruscans, 165
Vesta, the goddess, 223
Virgins of the Sun, 190
Visual ideas, 130
Votan, hero-god of the Tzentals, 221
Vows taken at birth, 193
_Wakan_, in Dakota, 60, 61;
in Quichua, 61
Waking visions, 66
Water, worship of, 144
Will as the source of Force, 47 _sq._
Winds, worship of the, 143
Witches’ Sabbath, the, 185
Woman, her position in Religion, 219
Word, the, in religion, 88 _sq._
World-soul, belief in a, 136
Writing, religious origin of, 241
_Yah_, a sacred interjection, 62
Yahgans, the, 57, 80, 104, 110, 195
Yahve, derivations of, 62, 81
Yetl, a sacred bird, 159
Yoga philosophy, the, 51
Yucatan, culture of, 24, 150
Yurucares, tribe of, 151
Zi, Chaldean term for spirits, 49
Zulus, the, their beliefs, 26, 56, 67, 147, 168
Zuñi Indians, the, 72, 124, 125, 221
_A Selection from the Catalogue of_
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
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Complete Catalogue sent on application
AMERICAN LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
I. =Rhys-Davids—Buddhism: Its History and Literature.= By T. W.
RHYS-DAVIDS, LL.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pali and Buddhist Literature at
University College, London. Crown octavo. _Net_, $1.50.
“...An admirable handbook of Buddhism, written from a point of
view at once scholarly and unprejudiced.”—_St. Paul Pioneer
Press._
II. =Brinton—Religions of Primitive Peoples.= By DANIEL G. BRINTON,
A.M., M.D., LL.D., Sc.D., Professor of Archæology and Linguistics in the
University of Pennsylvania. Crown octavo. _Net_, $1.50.
“...No book has yet appeared which brings the religious
thought of all races and times within closer range of the
modern reader; and to the reader who revels in tracing the
psychic history of man, no book can be more welcome.”—_Boston
Transcript._
III. =Cheyne—Jewish Religious Life after the Exile.= By Rev. T. K.
CHEYNE, M.A., D.D., Oriel Professor of Interpretation of Holy Scripture
in the University of Oxford, and formerly Fellow of Balliol College;
Canon of Rochester. Crown octavo. _Net_, $1.50.
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