The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious RitesTrumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay)
Religion
The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites
Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay)
Covenants -- Religious aspects
See, for example, Rawlinson’s _Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western
Asia_, III., 41, 43; IV., 41; Hilprecht’s _Freibrief Nebukadnezar’s_,
I., col. II., 26–60; _Beitraege zur Assyriologie_, II., 165–203, 258
ff.
Footnote 472:
An unknown product of the field.
Footnote 473:
From the Michaux Stone, columns II.-IV. in Rawlinson’s _Cuneiform
Inscriptions of Western Asia_, I., pl. 70; translated for this work by
Prof. Dr. H.V. Hilprecht. See illustrations in Maspero’s _Dawn of
Civilization_, pp. 762, 763. See Sayce’s _Religion of the Ancient
Babylonians_, p. 308.
Footnote 474:
Bühler’s “Laws of Manu,” in _Sacred Books of the East_, XXV., 298,
301.
Footnote 475:
Deut. 19 : 14.
Footnote 476:
Prov. 22 : 28; 23 : 10.
Footnote 477:
Job 24 : 2.
Footnote 478:
Deut. 27 : 17.
Footnote 479:
Gen. 21 : 22–33.
Footnote 480:
Gen. 31 : 43–53.
Footnote 481:
See Smith’s _Classical Dictionary_, and Keightley’s _Class. Dict._, s.
vv. “Hermes,” “Jupiter,” “Mercury,” “Silvanus,” “Terminus,” “Zeus.”
Comp. Stengel’s _Die griechischen Sacralalterthüm_. in Iwan v.
Müller’s _Handbuch der Klassischen Alterthumswissenschaft_, V., part
3, p. 13; K.F. Hermann’s _Lehrbuch der gottesdienstlichen Alterthümer
der Griechen_, pp. 73, 108, note 2.
Footnote 482:
“This god was represented by a stone or a stump, and not with human
features.” This would seem to have been a rude phallic form.
Footnote 483:
Ovid’s _Fasti_, Bk. II., vs. 641 ff.
Footnote 484:
Smith’s _Classical Dictionary_, s. vv. “Numa,” “Terminus.”
Footnote 485:
Smith’s _Dict. of Greek and Rom. Antiq._, s. v. “Terminalia.”
Footnote 486:
Stanley’s _Congo_, I., 315–317.
Footnote 487:
Turner’s _Samoa_, p. 45 f.
Footnote 488:
See “Beating the Bounds,” in Chambers’s _Edinburgh Journal_ for July
23, 1853, pp. 49–52; also _American Architect_, Vol. X., No. 293, p.
64 f.
Footnote 489:
Wallace’s _Russia_, p. 366 f.
Footnote 490:
Cited in Thompson’s _Elements of Political Economy_, p. 110.
Footnote 491:
Schrader’s _Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek_, I., 63, 69, 87, 99, 109,
131, 133, 135, 141, 143, 147, 155, 159, 161, 165, 167, 169, 181; II.,
19, 35, 54, 89.
Footnote 492:
See pp. 105–108, _supra_.
Footnote 493:
See, for example, Schrader’s _Keilinshriftliche Bibliothek_, I., 69.
Footnote 494:
Rawlinson’s _Inscriptions of Western Asia_, I., 17–26, col. 1, lines
63–69.
Footnote 495:
Brugsch’s _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, I., 8 f.; Villiers Stuart’s
_Nile Gleanings_, Pl. xlv., p. 276.
Footnote 496:
Brugsch’s _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, I., 182 f.
Footnote 497:
Brugsch’s _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, II., 81 f.
Footnote 498:
_Ibid._, II., 78 f.
Footnote 499:
Trumbull’s _Kadesh-barnea_, p. 341, note.
Footnote 500:
Plutarch’s _Lives_, Theseus, 25.
Footnote 501:
Psa. 24 : 2.
Footnote 502:
Justinian, _Inst._, Lib. I., 12, 5.
Footnote 503:
_Ibid._
Footnote 504:
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