The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on ScriptureTrumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay)
Religion
The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture
Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay)
Blood -- Folklore; Covenants -- Religious aspects
[351] Wilkinson’s _Anc. Egypt._, III., 109; 410; Kenrick’s _Anc.
Egypt._, I., 373. See Herodotus, _Hist._, II., 47.
[352] _Hist._, II., 61.
[353] See references to this custom at page 85 ff., _supra_.
[354] See Wilkinson’s _Anc. Egypt._, III., 404-406.
[355] Renouf’s _The Relig. of Anc. Egypt_, pp. 138-147.
[356] See _Rec. of Past_, X., 79-134.
[357] See page 102 f., _supra_.
[358] “Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.” (Deut. 8 : 3.
See, also, Matt. 4 : 4; Job 23 : 12; John 4 : 34.)
[359] See John 8 : 31, 32; 16 : 13; 17 : 19.
[360] See Réville’s _Native Relig. of Mex. and Peru_, pp. 63, 163;
Cory’s _Anc. Frag._, p. 5; Dubois’s _Des. Man. and Cust. of India_,
Part II., chap. 31; Tylor’s _Prim. Cult._, II., 278 ff.; Dorman’s
_Orig. of Prim. Supers._, p. 150; Andersson’s _Lake Ngami_, p. 220.
[361] Bancroft’s _Native Races_, V., 547 f.
[362] Monier Williams’s _Hinduism_, p. 60.
[363] Bancroft’s _Native Races_, V., 548.
[364] Bancroft’s _Native Races_, II., 710.
[365] Mendieta’s _Hist. Eccles. Ind._, p. 108 f.; cited in Spencer’s
_Des. Soc._, II., 20.
[366] Acosta’s _Hist. Nat. Mor. Ind._, Bk. V., chap. 27, cited in
Spencer’s _Des. Soc._, II., 26.
[367] Herrera’s _Gen. Hist. of America_, II., 379; cited in Dorman’s
_Orig. of Prim. Supers._, p. 152 f.
[368] Acosta’s _Hist. Nat. Mor. Ind._, Bk. V., chap. 23; cited in
Prescott’s _Conquest of Peru_, I., 108, note.
[369] Herrera’s _Gen. Hist._, III., 207 f.; cited in Spencer’s _Des.
Soc._, II., 20.
[370] Spencer’s _Des. Soc._, II., 20. See also Southey’s _Hist. of
Brazil_, II., 370.
[371] _Contra Apionem_, II., 7.
[372] See pages 105 f., 132, _supra_.
[373] See Clark’s _Indian Sign Language_, s. v., “Feast.”
[374] “Should he fail [to eat his portion], the host would be outraged,
the community shocked, and the spirits roused to vengeance. Disaster
would befall the nation--death, perhaps, the individual.” “A feaster
unable to do his full part, might, if he could, hire another to aid
him; otherwise he must remain in his place till the work was done.”
(Parkman’s _Jesuits in No. Am._, p. xxxviii.)
[375] “At some feasts guests are permitted to take home some small
portions for their children as sacred food, especially good for them
because it came from a feast.” (Clark’s _Ind. Sign Lang._, p. 168.)
[376] Edkins’s _Relig. in China_, p. 22, note.
[377] See pages 159, 168, 172, _supra_.
[378] Réville’s _Native Relig. of Mex. and Peru_, p. 183.
[379] _Ibid._, p. 76.
[380] See page 176 f., _supra_.
[381] _Des. of Man. and Cust. of India_, Part III., chap. 7.
[382] See William and Calvert’s _Fiji and the Fijians_, pp. 35 f.,
161-166, 181 f.
[383] Cited in Parkman’s _Jesuits in No. Am._, p. 228, note.
[384] _Ibid._, p. xxxix.
[385] _Ibid._, p. xl., note.
[386] _Origin of Prim. Supers._, p. 151 f.
[387] _Origin of Prim. Supers._, p. 150.
[388] _Native Relig. of Mex. and Peru_, p. 75 f.
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