The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture — John Shaqi
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
[29] _Thro. Dark Cont._, I., 493.
[30] _Ibid._, I., 493 f.
[31] _Thro. Dark Cont._, I., 123.
[32] _Ibid._, I., 227-237.
[33] _Thro. Dark Cont._, I., 268.
[34] _Ibid._, II., 144-146.
[35] _Thro. Dark Cont._, II., 177 f.
[36] _Thro. Dark Cont._, II., 188.
[37] _Thro. Dark Cont._, II., 305 f.
[38] _Ibid._, II., 315.
[39] _Thro. Dark Cont._, II., 330-332.
[40] _Thro. Dark Cont._, II., 402-408.
[41] _The Congo_, I., 304-312.
[42] _Thro. Dark Cont._, II., 281-283.
[43] _Thro. Dark Cont._, II., 286.
[44] See pages 26-28, _supra_.
[45] “Bula Matari,” or “Rock Breaker,” or Road Maker, was a name given
to Stanley by the natives.
[46] _The Congo_, I., 383-385.
[47] See page 7 f., _supra_.
[48] _The Congo_, II., 21-24.
[49] _Ibid._, II., 38.
[50] _The Congo_, II., 48.
[51] _Ibid._, II., 68.
[52] _Ibid._, II., 79.
[53] _Ibid._, II., 109.
[54] _Ibid._, II., 118.
[55] _Ibid._, II., 132.
[56] _Ibid._, II., 171.
[57] _Ibid._, II., 177.
[58] _Thro. Dark Cont._, II., 297-302.
[59] _The Congo_, II., 79-90.
[60] _Ibid._, II., 104 f.
[61] Aristotle’s _Ethics_, IX., 8, 3. This is not made as an original
statement, by Aristotle, but as the citation of one of the well-known
“proverbs” of friendship.
[62] See _Nouveau Dictionnaire de Médecine et de Chirurgie Pratiques_,
(ed. 1884) s. v. “Transfusion.”
[63] See Appendix, _infra_.
[64] See Carlyle’s _Heroes and Hero-Worship_, Lect. I.; also Anderson’s
_Norse Mythology_, pp. 215-220, 371-374.
[65] See Anderson’s _Norse Mythol._, pp. 372, 408 f.
[66] See Wilkinson’s _Ancient Egyptians_, III., 142; Renouf’s _The
Religion of Ancient Egypt_, p. 118 f.; Ebers’s _Picturesque Egypt_, I.,
100 f.
[67] See De Wette’s _Biblische Dogmatik_, § 79.
[68] See Carlyle’s _Hero Worship_, Lect. I.
[69] Odin “is the author of war.” He is called “Valfather (Father of
the slain), because he chooses for his sons all who fall in combat.”
Anderson’s _Norse Mythol._, p. 215 f.
[70] Mills’s _History of Chivalry_, chap. IV.
[71] Rom. 6 : 4-6; Col. 2 : 12.
[72] Anderson’s _Viking Tales of the North_, p. 59.
[73] _Ibid._, p. 191 f.
[74] Apparently these articles form a “heap of witness,” or are
the aggregated symbolic witnesses of the transaction; as something
answering to this usage is found in connection with the rite in various
parts of the world.
[75] He who would be true in friendship must be true in all things. The
good friend is a good citizen. See 1 Peter 2 : 17.
[76] See Job 3 : 2-9.
[77] Here is the idea of an absolute inter-merging of natures, by this
rite.
[78] See Matt. 13 : 12; 25 : 29.
[79] Here is an indication of the witness-bearing nature of these
accessories of the rite.
[80] Compare these blessings and cursings with those under the Mosaic
laws: Deut. 27 : 9-26; 28 : 1-68.
[81] See Matt. 6 : 31, 32.
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