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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

name for sign of hand among Christians in, 77;
    kissing threshold in, 129;
    nuptial customs of, 196, 246;
    marriage certificate in, 245;
    sacredness of threshold, 259 f.
  Syrian:
    derwishes, threshold custom of, 10;
    officer’s welcome at threshold, 11;
    testimony of native, 59.


  Tablets, ancestral, of China, 108.
  Tahiti, primitive threshold in, 250.
  Tai Shan, reference to, 158.
  Talisman, open hand as, in Europe, Africa, and America, 79.
  Tallquist’s rendering of Assyrian word, 83.
  Talmud:
    Jewish, references to, 93, 200, 208, 210 f., 239;
    Babylonian, references to, 211, 253.
  Tammuz of Syria, reference to, 115.
  Tangier, reference to, 62.
  Tañoans, reference to, 88.
  Targum, reference to, 117.
  Tatars:
    treading on threshold among, 13;
    importance of threshold among, 39.
  Teheran, Shah of Persia entering, 189.
  Tell el-Hesy, ram’s horn on doorway in, 58.
  Tello, sanctity of doorway in, 108 f.
  Temple:
    waters of life flowing from under threshold of, 114;
    doorway oldest form of, in Egypt, 126;
    at Carthage, prominence of threshold in, 130;
    in Greece, 134;
    earliest form of, in Mexico, Central and South America, 144;
    building in Babylonia, 153;
    of Thor, in Iceland, 160;
    at Jerusalem, site of, 161;
    earliest forms of, 229.
  Temples:
    preceded by houses, 3;
    images under threshold of, 14;
    as dwelling for deity, 99;
    called “great house of the village” in Samoa, 101;
    in form of stepped pyramid in Babylonia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mexico,
       Central America, Peru, and South Sea Islands, 111;
    in Jacob’s dream, 112;
    in Carthage, 130;
    Egyptian, history of, 155;
    as boundaries, 178.
  Temptation, first, and symbol of tree and serpent, 237.
  Tennasserin, survival of foundation-laying in blood in, 51 f.
  Tent:
    fire at entrance of, 22 f.;
    laying hold of, as appeal for hospitality in East, 57;
    stamped with red hand among American Indians, 83.
  “Teraphim” connected with threshold, 109.
  Terence: cited, 30.
  Terminalia, festival of, 173.
  Terminus: god, represented by pillar, 171-173.
  Tertullian: his warning against deities at doors and gates, 97 f.
  Teutonic thresholds made high, 12.
  Thang, emperor of China, 157.
  Thapsacus, equivalent of Tiphsakh, 210.
  Thâvesar, temple of Siva at, 157.
  Theban rite, kissing ground at threshold of shrine in, 128.
  Thebes:
    temple of “Silver Threshold” at, 127;
    symbols on temples of ancient, 234.
  Theocritus: cited, 73.
  Theseus setting up pillar, 180 f.
  Thief and robber, reference to word, 260.
  Thieving goldsmith struck dead at threshold, 122.
  Thomson, Dr. W.M.: cited, 70, 222.
  Thompson, President Robert Ellis: cited, 176.
  Thor, temple of, in Iceland, 160.
  Thorolf, reference to, 160.
  Thousand and One Nights, reference to, 248.
  Thuringian legend of burying child in foundation, 49.
  _Thyra_, a translation of _saph_, 207.
  Tiamat, reference to, 235.

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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

name for sign of hand among Christians in, 77;
    kissing threshold in, 129;
    nuptial customs of, 196, 246;
    marriage certificate in, 245;
    sacredness of threshold, 259 f.
  Syrian:
    derwishes, threshold custom of, 10;
    officer’s welcome at threshold, 11;
    testimony of native, 59.


  Tablets, ancestral, of China, 108.
  Tahiti, primitive threshold in, 250.
  Tai Shan, reference to, 158.
  Talisman, open hand as, in Europe, Africa, and America, 79.
  Tallquist’s rendering of Assyrian word, 83.
  Talmud:
    Jewish, references to, 93, 200, 208, 210 f., 239;
    Babylonian, references to, 211, 253.
  Tammuz of Syria, reference to, 115.
  Tangier, reference to, 62.
  Tañoans, reference to, 88.
  Targum, reference to, 117.
  Tatars:
    treading on threshold among, 13;
    importance of threshold among, 39.
  Teheran, Shah of Persia entering, 189.
  Tell el-Hesy, ram’s horn on doorway in, 58.
  Tello, sanctity of doorway in, 108 f.
  Temple:
    waters of life flowing from under threshold of, 114;
    doorway oldest form of, in Egypt, 126;
    at Carthage, prominence of threshold in, 130;
    in Greece, 134;
    earliest form of, in Mexico, Central and South America, 144;
    building in Babylonia, 153;
    of Thor, in Iceland, 160;
    at Jerusalem, site of, 161;
    earliest forms of, 229.
  Temples:
    preceded by houses, 3;
    images under threshold of, 14;
    as dwelling for deity, 99;
    called “great house of the village” in Samoa, 101;
    in form of stepped pyramid in Babylonia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mexico,
       Central America, Peru, and South Sea Islands, 111;
    in Jacob’s dream, 112;
    in Carthage, 130;
    Egyptian, history of, 155;
    as boundaries, 178.
  Temptation, first, and symbol of tree and serpent, 237.
  Tennasserin, survival of foundation-laying in blood in, 51 f.
  Tent:
    fire at entrance of, 22 f.;
    laying hold of, as appeal for hospitality in East, 57;
    stamped with red hand among American Indians, 83.
  “Teraphim” connected with threshold, 109.
  Terence: cited, 30.
  Terminalia, festival of, 173.
  Terminus: god, represented by pillar, 171-173.
  Tertullian: his warning against deities at doors and gates, 97 f.
  Teutonic thresholds made high, 12.
  Thang, emperor of China, 157.
  Thapsacus, equivalent of Tiphsakh, 210.
  Thâvesar, temple of Siva at, 157.
  Theban rite, kissing ground at threshold of shrine in, 128.
  Thebes:
    temple of “Silver Threshold” at, 127;
    symbols on temples of ancient, 234.
  Theocritus: cited, 73.
  Theseus setting up pillar, 180 f.
  Thief and robber, reference to word, 260.
  Thieving goldsmith struck dead at threshold, 122.
  Thomson, Dr. W.M.: cited, 70, 222.
  Thompson, President Robert Ellis: cited, 176.
  Thor, temple of, in Iceland, 160.
  Thorolf, reference to, 160.
  Thousand and One Nights, reference to, 248.
  Thuringian legend of burying child in foundation, 49.
  _Thyra_, a translation of _saph_, 207.
  Tiamat, reference to, 235.

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The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

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