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The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious RitesTrumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay)

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The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

Name: The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites
Author: Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay)

Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay)

Covenants -- Religious aspects

winged, with human heads to guard entrance way, 95;
    of bronze on gates of Babylon, 109 f.;
    as guardians of threshold in Babylonia, 110 f.;
    of bronze, in Babylon, 234.
  Bunsen, Chevalier, reference to, 111.
  Burckhardt, John Lewis: cited, 26, 38, 191, 244-246.
  Burder, Samuel: cited, 13.
  Burials made under threshold in East and West, 25.
  Buried images, symbols and treasures under temple doorways, 109.
  Burmah, survival of foundation laying in blood in, 51 f.
  Burton, Richard F.:
    cited, 164;
    quotation from, 248 f.
  Burying women and children in foundation, 18, 50.
  Bush as symbol of feminine in nature, 214.
  Bush, George, reference to, 112.
  Busrah, women exhibiting evidences at, 248.
  Butter or honey smeared on door-posts among Wallachians, 29.
  Buxtorf, John: cited, 200, 253.
  “By door,” entering house, 6.
  Byzantine age, sarcophagi of, showing altar at threshold, 121.


  Cairo:
    Arab sitting in judgment at gate of, 60;
    protecting genius of different quarters of, 96 f.
  Calling on name of God at threshold, 29.
  Calpë and Abyla as boundary marks, 181.
  Cam, Diego, discoverer of Congo River, 182.
  Campbell, John: cited, 39.
  Canaan:
    gateway between Egypt and, 105;
    Israelites entering into, 211;
    people of, treatment of, 232.
  Candle on threshold in Russia, 41-44.
  Candlestick, five branched, similar to sign of hand, 77.
  Cão, Diego, reference to, 182.
  Cardea, Hinge-goddess of Romans, 97.
  Carlyle, Thomas: cited, 183.
  Carpathos. See _Skarpanto_.
  Carthage:
    uplifted hand above door in, 78;
    prominence of door in, 107;
    prominence of temple threshold in, 130.
  Cassotis spring, reference to, 135.
  Catholic Church, Roman:
    holy water in, 147;
    on marriage, 222.
  Catlin, George: quotation from, and reference to, 86.
  Cave, fire at entrance of, 23.
  Central America:
    threshold custom in, 34;
    blood smeared on doorways in, 72;
    red hand stamped on doorways and walls in, 81 f.;
    “the god of houses” in, 98;
    sacrifice of boys in, 145.
  Ceremony:
    wedding threshold in North Germany, 18;
    of laying threshold in India, 95.
  Ceylon, Adam settling in, 164.
  Chahalka, “the god of houses,” in Central America, 98.
  Chamberlain, Basil Hall: cited, 101, 104.
  Chambers’s Journal, reference to, 175.
  Charans, appeal at threshold for justice among, 61.
  Chardin, Sir John: cited, 124.
  Charms:
    on threshold and door in Uganda, 15;
    under door-step in Russia, 19;
    fastened above door in China, 71;
    on doors and door-posts in China, 71, 95;
    worn in Jerusalem, 75 f.
  Chase, W.G., quotation from, 51.
  Chateaubraud, Viscount de: cited, 147.
  Chaucer, Geoffrey, quotation from, 139.
  Cheetham, Samuel. See _Smith and Cheetham_.
  Chelly canyon, red-hand symbol in, 87.
  Cheyennes, red hand among, 87.
  Chicago, Columbian Exposition at, reference to, 57.
  Chief rabbi, in Jerusalem, sacrifice at threshold in installing, 67.
  Child:

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