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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

Dacotahs, symbol of hand among, 84.
  Dagon, his overthrow, 116 f.
  Dahabiyeh, threshold custom on purchasing, 8.
  Dahomey, nuptial customs of, 245.
  Dalmatia, kissing threshold in, 31.
  Damascus, Hajj procession approaching, 186.
  Dances of American Indians, prominence of hand in, 83 f.
  Dancing custom in Central America, 247.
  Danes:
    immuring of girl in city walls among, 49;
    lamb buried under every altar of, 56.
  Daniel in gate of king, 64.
  Darfour, marriage ceremonies in, 249.
  Darmesteter, James:
    cited, 58;
    reference to, 99.
  David:
    sitting in gate, 64;
    erecting altar to Lord, 161.
  De Amicis, Edmondo: cited, 77.
  De Coulanges, Numa D.F. de:
    cited, 41, 156;
    reference to, 99.
  De Hesse-Wartegg, Chevalier: cited, 79.
  Dead:
    not to cross threshold in India, China, 23 f.,
    Korea, Russia, Italy, Alaska, 24;
    taken over wall in China, 23 f.;
    taken under threshold in Russia, 24;
    prayers for, inscribed on false door of tombs of Egypt, 106.
  “Dead, Book of the,” references to, 128 f., 257.
  “Dead, Gate of the,” in Korea, 24.
  Death following building of new house, 54.
  “Death Week” among Slavonic peoples, 19.
  Dedications on doorways by primitive peoples, 69.
  Deer carried over threshold in betrothal in Central America, 34.
  Deity:
    appeal to, in East, 3 f.;
    of ancient Egypt with uplifted hands, 81;
    of threshold, reference to, 109;
    of gates of Hades, 113.
  Delhi and serpent, 236.
  Delitzsch, Franz, reference to, 254.
  Delitzsch, Friedrich, reference to, 100.
  Delphi:
    treasures of, described, 133;
    Neoptolemus attacking Orestes in, 134;
    temple of Apollo at, 134 f.;
    Apollo at, represented by female oracle, 236.
  Deluge:
    reference to, 103;
    destruction of Holy House in, 163.
  Detinetz, burial in foundations in, 50.
  Development and origin of man, 223.
  D’Herbelot, quotation from, 10 f.
  _Diabateria_, meaning of, 208.
  Dido, Queen, Æneas at court of, 130.
  Dieulafoy, M.: cited, 60.
  “Digging through” in New Testament, 260.
  Dillmann, Christian F.A., reference to, 254.
  _Ditya_, reference to, 50.
  Dives, Lazarus at gate of, 64.
  Divination and exorcism in Italy, 17.
  Documents signed in blood or ink, 94.
  Domestic divinities, protection from, in Lithuania, 18 f.
  “Domovoi:”
    household deity of Russia, sacrifice for, 19;
    invoked at threshold, 23.
  Donaldson, T., reference to, 86.
  Donaldson, T.L., references to, 121, 134, 231.
  Donatus: cited, 29 f.
  Doolittle, Rev. Justus: cited, 71.
  Door:
    animal sacrifices at house-door in Egypt, 3, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15,
      among Pythagoreans, 12 f.,
      among Slavonic peoples, 19,
      among Dyaks of Borneo, 20,
      in Ireland, 21,
      among Arabs, 22 f.,
      in Syria, 26, 45,
      in Turkey, Cyprus, and Central Africa, 27,
      in Egypt, 45,
      all over world, 46,
      in Greece, 53,
      in Russia, 54,
      in Arabia, 58-60,
      in Morocco, 63, 67,

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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

Dacotahs, symbol of hand among, 84.
  Dagon, his overthrow, 116 f.
  Dahabiyeh, threshold custom on purchasing, 8.
  Dahomey, nuptial customs of, 245.
  Dalmatia, kissing threshold in, 31.
  Damascus, Hajj procession approaching, 186.
  Dances of American Indians, prominence of hand in, 83 f.
  Dancing custom in Central America, 247.
  Danes:
    immuring of girl in city walls among, 49;
    lamb buried under every altar of, 56.
  Daniel in gate of king, 64.
  Darfour, marriage ceremonies in, 249.
  Darmesteter, James:
    cited, 58;
    reference to, 99.
  David:
    sitting in gate, 64;
    erecting altar to Lord, 161.
  De Amicis, Edmondo: cited, 77.
  De Coulanges, Numa D.F. de:
    cited, 41, 156;
    reference to, 99.
  De Hesse-Wartegg, Chevalier: cited, 79.
  Dead:
    not to cross threshold in India, China, 23 f.,
    Korea, Russia, Italy, Alaska, 24;
    taken over wall in China, 23 f.;
    taken under threshold in Russia, 24;
    prayers for, inscribed on false door of tombs of Egypt, 106.
  “Dead, Book of the,” references to, 128 f., 257.
  “Dead, Gate of the,” in Korea, 24.
  Death following building of new house, 54.
  “Death Week” among Slavonic peoples, 19.
  Dedications on doorways by primitive peoples, 69.
  Deer carried over threshold in betrothal in Central America, 34.
  Deity:
    appeal to, in East, 3 f.;
    of ancient Egypt with uplifted hands, 81;
    of threshold, reference to, 109;
    of gates of Hades, 113.
  Delhi and serpent, 236.
  Delitzsch, Franz, reference to, 254.
  Delitzsch, Friedrich, reference to, 100.
  Delphi:
    treasures of, described, 133;
    Neoptolemus attacking Orestes in, 134;
    temple of Apollo at, 134 f.;
    Apollo at, represented by female oracle, 236.
  Deluge:
    reference to, 103;
    destruction of Holy House in, 163.
  Detinetz, burial in foundations in, 50.
  Development and origin of man, 223.
  D’Herbelot, quotation from, 10 f.
  _Diabateria_, meaning of, 208.
  Dido, Queen, Æneas at court of, 130.
  Dieulafoy, M.: cited, 60.
  “Digging through” in New Testament, 260.
  Dillmann, Christian F.A., reference to, 254.
  _Ditya_, reference to, 50.
  Dives, Lazarus at gate of, 64.
  Divination and exorcism in Italy, 17.
  Documents signed in blood or ink, 94.
  Domestic divinities, protection from, in Lithuania, 18 f.
  “Domovoi:”
    household deity of Russia, sacrifice for, 19;
    invoked at threshold, 23.
  Donaldson, T., reference to, 86.
  Donaldson, T.L., references to, 121, 134, 231.
  Donatus: cited, 29 f.
  Doolittle, Rev. Justus: cited, 71.
  Door:
    animal sacrifices at house-door in Egypt, 3, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15,
      among Pythagoreans, 12 f.,
      among Slavonic peoples, 19,
      among Dyaks of Borneo, 20,
      in Ireland, 21,
      among Arabs, 22 f.,
      in Syria, 26, 45,
      in Turkey, Cyprus, and Central Africa, 27,
      in Egypt, 45,
      all over world, 46,
      in Greece, 53,
      in Russia, 54,
      in Arabia, 58-60,
      in Morocco, 63, 67,

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The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

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