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The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on ScriptureTrumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay)

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The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture

Name: The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture
Author: Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay)

Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay)

Blood -- Folklore; Covenants -- Religious aspects

Phylacteries, the token of blood-covenant, 233-236;
    and amulet, 329.

  Preserving blood, as life, 88 f., 337 f.
    See Life, blood is.

  Prohibition of blood-drinking: 214 f.;
    in the Mosaic law, 240 f.;
    reason for, 312.

  Prophecy, Blood as a means of, 113 ff.


  Quiché god, Tohil, his terms of covenant, 174.


  Rā, communion with, in Amenti, 172, 333 f.

  Ransoming by blood, 324 ff. See Goel.

  Record of the divine blood-covenant, 298;
    of the covenant: among American Indians, 326 ff.

  Red, as a symbol of blood:
    in Egypt, 102 f., 173;
    in China, 196;
    the colour, its symbolism, 236 f.
    See also, Feathers, red.

  Revenger of blood. See Goel.

  Ring:
    symbolism of, 65-76, 330 ff.;
    in Dayak divorce, 330;
    of flesh, 331.

  Rosetta-stone of the covenant, 267.

  Russia:
    customs in, 73;
    blood giving in, 96.


  Sacrament, Christian:
    its relation to heathen communions, 177;
    foreshadowed in the Old Testament, 274 f.;
    instituted by Jesus, 281 ff.;
    not a sacrifice, 292;
    a two-fold covenant, 293.

  ---- of the Holy Food, 164.

  Sacredness of blood:
    in Egypt, 99 ff.;
    in America, 105 ff.;
    in India, 155.
    See Offerings of blood.

  Sacrifice:
    as communion, in China, 149 ff.;
    not necessarily expiatory, 166;
    of Isaac, 224-230.

  Sacrifices; Egyptian and Jewish, their resemblance, 300.

  ---- human:
    among the Nahuas, 105 f.;
    among the Mayas, 106 f.;
    in India, 157 ff., 227;
    in Assyria, 166 f.;
    of children:
      in Guatemala, 174;
      in Arabia, 227;
      in the Norseland, 227;
      in Great Britain, 227 f.

  ---- human and animal, succession of:
    in China, 152;
    in India, 155 f.;
    in the Brahmanical books, 157 f.

  “Sacrificial part,” blood the, 157 f.

  Saffron, symbolism of, 77, 165.

  ---- water:
    in wedding, 332;
    a substitute for blood, 195 f.

  Saul, his phylacteries, 237 f.

  Scarabæus, a symbol of heart, 100, 300.

  Signing with blood, 93 ff.

  Smoking, in inter-union, 51, 309.

  Society Islands, brotherhoods in, 56 f.

  Soul-transference by blood-transference, 312 f.
    See Life-transference; Transfusion of blood.

  Spiritual conceptions not innate, 311.

  Stanley, Henry M., making blood-friendship, 18-38.

  Stone, white, and new name, 337.

  Stones, living, 119 f., 307 f.

  Striking:
    a covenant, 59, 62;
    hands, in covenant, 236, 341 f.

  Substitute-blood offered:
    in Borneo, 52, 73;
    in Egypt, 72;
    in China, 148;
    in South America, 177;
    in Bible times, 211, 213;
    at Sinai, 239-258.
    See Symbolic substitutes.

  Sucking-brothers, 11 f.

  Symbolic substitutes for blood, 191 ff.;
    the assiratum, 63 ff.;
    arrack, 192;
    coffee, 192;
    any ordinary spirituous liquor, 193;
    saffron, 194, 332;
    wine and honey, 196;
    chica, 197;
    wine, 198 ff.;
    whisky, 316.

  Symbols, scriptural and ethnic, their relationship, 206.

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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

Phylacteries, the token of blood-covenant, 233-236;
    and amulet, 329.

  Preserving blood, as life, 88 f., 337 f.
    See Life, blood is.

  Prohibition of blood-drinking: 214 f.;
    in the Mosaic law, 240 f.;
    reason for, 312.

  Prophecy, Blood as a means of, 113 ff.


  Quiché god, Tohil, his terms of covenant, 174.


  Rā, communion with, in Amenti, 172, 333 f.

  Ransoming by blood, 324 ff. See Goel.

  Record of the divine blood-covenant, 298;
    of the covenant: among American Indians, 326 ff.

  Red, as a symbol of blood:
    in Egypt, 102 f., 173;
    in China, 196;
    the colour, its symbolism, 236 f.
    See also, Feathers, red.

  Revenger of blood. See Goel.

  Ring:
    symbolism of, 65-76, 330 ff.;
    in Dayak divorce, 330;
    of flesh, 331.

  Rosetta-stone of the covenant, 267.

  Russia:
    customs in, 73;
    blood giving in, 96.


  Sacrament, Christian:
    its relation to heathen communions, 177;
    foreshadowed in the Old Testament, 274 f.;
    instituted by Jesus, 281 ff.;
    not a sacrifice, 292;
    a two-fold covenant, 293.

  ---- of the Holy Food, 164.

  Sacredness of blood:
    in Egypt, 99 ff.;
    in America, 105 ff.;
    in India, 155.
    See Offerings of blood.

  Sacrifice:
    as communion, in China, 149 ff.;
    not necessarily expiatory, 166;
    of Isaac, 224-230.

  Sacrifices; Egyptian and Jewish, their resemblance, 300.

  ---- human:
    among the Nahuas, 105 f.;
    among the Mayas, 106 f.;
    in India, 157 ff., 227;
    in Assyria, 166 f.;
    of children:
      in Guatemala, 174;
      in Arabia, 227;
      in the Norseland, 227;
      in Great Britain, 227 f.

  ---- human and animal, succession of:
    in China, 152;
    in India, 155 f.;
    in the Brahmanical books, 157 f.

  “Sacrificial part,” blood the, 157 f.

  Saffron, symbolism of, 77, 165.

  ---- water:
    in wedding, 332;
    a substitute for blood, 195 f.

  Saul, his phylacteries, 237 f.

  Scarabæus, a symbol of heart, 100, 300.

  Signing with blood, 93 ff.

  Smoking, in inter-union, 51, 309.

  Society Islands, brotherhoods in, 56 f.

  Soul-transference by blood-transference, 312 f.
    See Life-transference; Transfusion of blood.

  Spiritual conceptions not innate, 311.

  Stanley, Henry M., making blood-friendship, 18-38.

  Stone, white, and new name, 337.

  Stones, living, 119 f., 307 f.

  Striking:
    a covenant, 59, 62;
    hands, in covenant, 236, 341 f.

  Substitute-blood offered:
    in Borneo, 52, 73;
    in Egypt, 72;
    in China, 148;
    in South America, 177;
    in Bible times, 211, 213;
    at Sinai, 239-258.
    See Symbolic substitutes.

  Sucking-brothers, 11 f.

  Symbolic substitutes for blood, 191 ff.;
    the assiratum, 63 ff.;
    arrack, 192;
    coffee, 192;
    any ordinary spirituous liquor, 193;
    saffron, 194, 332;
    wine and honey, 196;
    chica, 197;
    wine, 198 ff.;
    whisky, 316.

  Symbols, scriptural and ethnic, their relationship, 206.

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The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture

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