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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

cited, 208, 238;
    reference to, 239.
  _Philos_, _Phleō_, and _Phliē_, meanings and uses of, 255 f.
  Phœbus Apollo, reference to, 133.
  Phrygia:
    threshold altar in, 121;
    reverence for phallic emblems in, 230.
  Pig:
    sacrifice of black, in Russia, 19;
    blood of, sprinkled at door in Borneo, 20;
    buried alive under houses, 56;
    as sacrifice, 148.
  Pigeon-poult’s blood in Arabia, 248.
  Pigeons sacrificed at door, 4.
  Pilgrims at threshold in Japan, in Korea, in Shinto and Booddhist
     temple, 125.
  Pillar:
    of cloud at doorway of tent of meeting, 119;
    of Baal, 214;
    and tree in religious symbolism, 232;
    command to Israelites concerning, 233.
  “Pillars of Herculus,” 181.
  Pine cone: in ancient Assyrian sculptures, in Grecian and Phenician
     cults, and in ancient Rome, 257.
  Pinkerton, John: cited, 39.
  Pipal tree. See _Peepul tree_.
  Pipiles, sacrifices among, 146.
  “Plain of Kuru,” 156.
  Pliny, reference to, 93.
  Ploss, H., reference to, 93.
  Plutarch: cited, 25, 39, 41, 180 f., 263, 265.
  Pole, brush-topped, symbolism of, 214, 258.
  Polynesia:
    survival of foundation-laying in blood in, 51 f.;
    uplifted hand found in stepped-pyramid temples of, 83;
    boundary lines in, 174.
  Pomegranate:
    on threshold in Morea, 30, in Rhodes, 30 f.;
    in religious symbolisms, 230.
  Pompeian relics at Naples, 257.
  Ponce de Leon and fountain of life, 148.
  Poole. See _Lane-Poole_.
  _Poros_, derivation of, 265.
  _Porta_ and _Porto_, derivation of, 265.
  _Porta di morti_ in Italian houses for corpse, 24.
  Porter, Sir Robert Kerr: cited, 9, 71.
  Porter, twofold use of word, 263-265.
  Portuguese navigators and boundary pillars, 180 f.
  _Postliminium_, a recrossing of threshold, 181.
  _Pôth_:
    uses of Hebrew word, 253;
    as hinge or socket, 254.
  Prabhus of Bombay, birth custom among, 17.
  Prague, open hand above graves in, 79.
  Prayer:
    on burying articles under threshold, 20;
    offered to “goddess of the homestead” in betrothal in Russia, 32;
    for dead at door of Egyptian tombs, 106;
    Booddhist in Tibet, 199;
    meaning of, 228.
  Prayer-rug in Turkey and Persia, 78.
  Priest:
    house-father as earliest, 3;
    among Jicarilla Apaches, 89;
    as ruler, 165;
    of Dagon not to tread on threshold, 117.
  Primitive:
    altar of family, 3;
    threshold customs, 35;
    temple as rude door-way, 102;
    man and his knowledge, 224.
  Prisse’s Monuments of Egypt, reference to, 234.
  Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, references to, 201,
     231, 257.
  Propylon:
    of Egyptian temple, 127;
    of Greek temple on Acropolis, 158.
  _Pʾrosdôr_, rabbinical meaning of, 253.
  Prostitution, sacred, origin of, 229.
  Prostrating:
    at gate of palace in Bagdad, 10;
    at threshold of shrines of Egypt, 127 f.
  Protection:
    for enemy at home sanctuary, 57;
    at threshold among Afghans, 58.
  Protestant Episcopal churches:

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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

cited, 208, 238;
    reference to, 239.
  _Philos_, _Phleō_, and _Phliē_, meanings and uses of, 255 f.
  Phœbus Apollo, reference to, 133.
  Phrygia:
    threshold altar in, 121;
    reverence for phallic emblems in, 230.
  Pig:
    sacrifice of black, in Russia, 19;
    blood of, sprinkled at door in Borneo, 20;
    buried alive under houses, 56;
    as sacrifice, 148.
  Pigeon-poult’s blood in Arabia, 248.
  Pigeons sacrificed at door, 4.
  Pilgrims at threshold in Japan, in Korea, in Shinto and Booddhist
     temple, 125.
  Pillar:
    of cloud at doorway of tent of meeting, 119;
    of Baal, 214;
    and tree in religious symbolism, 232;
    command to Israelites concerning, 233.
  “Pillars of Herculus,” 181.
  Pine cone: in ancient Assyrian sculptures, in Grecian and Phenician
     cults, and in ancient Rome, 257.
  Pinkerton, John: cited, 39.
  Pipal tree. See _Peepul tree_.
  Pipiles, sacrifices among, 146.
  “Plain of Kuru,” 156.
  Pliny, reference to, 93.
  Ploss, H., reference to, 93.
  Plutarch: cited, 25, 39, 41, 180 f., 263, 265.
  Pole, brush-topped, symbolism of, 214, 258.
  Polynesia:
    survival of foundation-laying in blood in, 51 f.;
    uplifted hand found in stepped-pyramid temples of, 83;
    boundary lines in, 174.
  Pomegranate:
    on threshold in Morea, 30, in Rhodes, 30 f.;
    in religious symbolisms, 230.
  Pompeian relics at Naples, 257.
  Ponce de Leon and fountain of life, 148.
  Poole. See _Lane-Poole_.
  _Poros_, derivation of, 265.
  _Porta_ and _Porto_, derivation of, 265.
  _Porta di morti_ in Italian houses for corpse, 24.
  Porter, Sir Robert Kerr: cited, 9, 71.
  Porter, twofold use of word, 263-265.
  Portuguese navigators and boundary pillars, 180 f.
  _Postliminium_, a recrossing of threshold, 181.
  _Pôth_:
    uses of Hebrew word, 253;
    as hinge or socket, 254.
  Prabhus of Bombay, birth custom among, 17.
  Prague, open hand above graves in, 79.
  Prayer:
    on burying articles under threshold, 20;
    offered to “goddess of the homestead” in betrothal in Russia, 32;
    for dead at door of Egyptian tombs, 106;
    Booddhist in Tibet, 199;
    meaning of, 228.
  Prayer-rug in Turkey and Persia, 78.
  Priest:
    house-father as earliest, 3;
    among Jicarilla Apaches, 89;
    as ruler, 165;
    of Dagon not to tread on threshold, 117.
  Primitive:
    altar of family, 3;
    threshold customs, 35;
    temple as rude door-way, 102;
    man and his knowledge, 224.
  Prisse’s Monuments of Egypt, reference to, 234.
  Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, references to, 201,
     231, 257.
  Propylon:
    of Egyptian temple, 127;
    of Greek temple on Acropolis, 158.
  _Pʾrosdôr_, rabbinical meaning of, 253.
  Prostitution, sacred, origin of, 229.
  Prostrating:
    at gate of palace in Bagdad, 10;
    at threshold of shrines of Egypt, 127 f.
  Protection:
    for enemy at home sanctuary, 57;
    at threshold among Afghans, 58.
  Protestant Episcopal churches:

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The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

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