The Covenant of Salt: As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive ThoughtTrumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay)
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The Covenant of Salt: As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought
Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay)
Covenants; Salt
Sanskrit roots, gain of looking among, 4.
Savor of death, 133-138.
Savor of life, 133-138.
Sayce, Professor A. H., reference to, 74.
Schrader, O.: cited, 74.
Schultz, Stephen: cited, 28, 29 f., 30.
Scipio, reference to, 68.
Scotland, salt on a corpse in, 103.
Scott, Sir Walter, quotation from, 127.
Seal killing by Esquimaux, 39.
Seasoned: with life, 67;
with salt, 67.
Second requirement of God's covenant, 153.
Sentiment valuable in research, 5.
Septuagint, The, reference to, 33, 84.
Settling dispute by salt and water, 124.
Shallow, Justice, reference to, 54.
Shewbread, salt on table of, 84.
Shooter's "Kafirs:" cited, 60.
Sign of the cross, reference to, 89.
Significance of bread, 79, 80.
"Sin-eaters," reference to, 105.
"Sitting below the salt," 126.
Sixth requirement of God's covenant, 162.
Skeat: cited, 74.
Smith, George Adam, quotation from, 134.
Smith, W. Robertson: cited, 14, 24, 48, 59, 62, 137.
Snake-bite, salt as antidote for, 43.
Sodom destroyed because of faithlessness to salt, 112.
"Son" and "sun" from same root, 73.
Spencer, Herbert: cited, 123, 126.
Spilling of salt, 138.
Stanley, Henry M., reference to, 46 f.
Stealing, Arab estimate of, 166.
Stevens, Dr. W.: cited, 43.
Stewart's "Manual of Physiology:" reference to, 42;
quotation from, 123.
Strassburg University, reference to, 128.
Strickland, Agnes: cited 126.
Student, in Journal of Asiatic Society, giving salt to, 127.
"Studies in Oriental Social Life," 14, 23, 24, 58.
Substitute together with reality, 117-120.
Substituting salt for blood, 37.
Sun, salt and, 73-76.
Supply of salt cut off from Armenians, 43.
Survey of Western Palestine, reference to, 32.
Swearing by salt, 54.
Sword, salt on blade of, 49.
Syrophoenician woman, reference to, 88.
Table: of shewbread, salt on, 84;
an altar, 85;
customs among Jews, 87.
Tacitus: cited, 135.
Tamerlane, Mongol-Tartar chieftain reference to, 109.
Tatar tradition of salt, 41.
Taxation in Egypt, 130.
Tears, salt shown in, 40.
Ten Commandments, division of, 159 f.
Thirst, salt water mocking, 135.
Thomson, W. M.: cited, 24;
quotation from, 37.
"Three," value as sacred number, 103.
Threshold: pouring blood on, 47;
Bible carried across, in new house, 76;
salt and candle carried across, 76;
salt scattered at, 100;
salt and Bible carried across, in new house, 106;
salt and bread under, 106.
"Threshold Covenant," reference to, 6, 47, 106, 117, 128, 130.
Torture: depriving of salt as a means of, 42;
treachery, Oriental summit of, 111;
Bible summit of, 113.
"Treaty," used interchangeably with "covenant," 5.
Truce between enemies, sharing water as, 23 f.
Twain made one, 7.
Van Lennep: cited, 61.
Various kinds of covenant, 9.
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