The different Bechuana tribes are named after certain animals, showing probably that in former times they were addicted to animal-worship like the ancient Egyptians. ❋ Unknown (2004)
These curious relics of the animal-worship of former times scarcely exist among the Makololo. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Even in lands which have long given up animal-worship, wherever a beast is conspicuous or terrible, it becomes the subject of some marvellous tale. ❋ Unknown (2003)
De Brosses 'work had raised again the enduring problem for eighteenth-century thought of how to explain the discomforting evidence for Egyp - tian animal-worship or worse, African fetish-worship. ❋ BURTON FELDMAN (1968)
If we accept the animal-worship and sacrificial communion theory, many a ❋ Clement A. Miles (N/A)
In the recumbent wingless sphinx of Egypt we see anthropomorphic ideas of religion emerging out of the gross animal-worship of more primitive times. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)
If so animal-worship runs through the following stages: Man's close association with animal life fills his mental storehouse with composite notions — e. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
But this view, once quite common, is now generally abandoned, and fetishistic animal-worship is now considered as the true basis of the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Herbert Spencer classes Totemism under animal-worship and says its explanation is found in the primitive custom of naming children after natural objects from some accidental circumstances or fanciful resemblance, and then in confounding these metaphorical names or nicknames with the real objects, i.e. ancestors, and consequently paying to the animals the same reverence they paid their ancestors. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Loret maintains that Totemism existed among the early Egyptians, but evidently confounds this belief with animal-worship. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
For at the very time when this borrowing might have taken place, Egyptian idolatry had degenerated into such loathsome animal-worship, that not only the Christians, but the pagans themselves turned away from it in disgust (cf. Aristides, "Apol.", xii; Clement of Alexandria, "Cohortatio", ii). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The place of animal-worship in the Celtic religion will be more fully considered in a later chapter. ❋ Edward Anwyl (1890)
Bavarian school systems; and that amiable animal-worship of his receives a fresh evidence in the mention and mourning of the death of ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
The esoteric or secret religion known to the high priests and the instructed ones was different from the animal-worship and adoration of bird-headed deities, which gave the common people such interest in daily life. ❋ Unknown (1889)
The peculiarity of the animal-worship of Egypt, and of its bull-worship in particular, was that sanctity was attributed to ❋ Julius Wellhausen (1881)
Nibhaz -- under that of a dog -- that Egyptian form of animal-worship having prevailed in ancient Syria, as is evident from the image of a large dog at the mouth of the Nahr-el-Kelb, or Dog river. ❋ Unknown (1871)
The animal-worship reached its utmost pitch of grossness and absurdity when certain individual brute beasts were declared to be incarnate deities, and treated accordingly. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)
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An antique reverence for the plant-world may lie, as we have seen, beneath the familiar institution of the Christmas-tree, some sort of animal-worship may be at the bottom of the | 358 | beast-masks common at winter festivals, survivals of sacrifice may linger in Christmas feasting, and in the family gatherings round the hearth may be preserved a dim memory of ancient domestic rites. ❋ Clement A. Miles (N/A)
