Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 38American Oriental Society., 1918 - Electronic journals "Proceedings" or "Select minutes of meetings" are included in each volume (except volumes 3, 12). |
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Page 298 - Khvaniras to the other regions, one night amid the sea the wind rushed upon the fireplace — the fireplace in which the fire was, such as was provided in three places on the back of the ox — which the wind dropped with the fire into the sea; and all those three fires, like three breathing souls, continually shot up in the place and position of the fire on the back of the ox, so that it becomes quite light, and the men pass again through the sea.
Page 322 - Court assfinUeil. and by the authority of the same, as follows: — Section 1. The American Oriental Society, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, is hereby authorized to hold its meetings in any state or territory of the United States and in the District of Columbia : provided, however, that said society shall meet within this Commonwealth at least once in three years. Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Page 147 - The Religion of the Teutons, p. 74, 98 ; and AB Keith, JRAS, 1907, p. 939. from the personal totem.1 In South America even Dr. Frazer admits that totemism and exogamy exist in only two tribes (the Goajiros and Arawaks, withal "almost surely," not quite), and the " mother sea " and " mother maize " of Peru were only ancestral food-givers (not totems).
Page 329 - All this, he says, was an allegorical description of nature. For the whole universe consisting of moisture, and animals being continually generated therein; the deity...
Page 171 - Ashurbanipal, the great king, the mighty king, the king of the world, the king of Assyria...
Page 155 - It is found all over the earth and at times comes to the point of gliding into true totemism. Thus, in Peru fish are deified on the seacoast and maize is not ; but maize is deified inland, simply because it is the staple diet. This is the first step in totemization. The giver of food is the giver of life ; the giver of life is conceived either as father and as mother or as both parents and god. Hence the maize is called not only divine but mother. In the Boston statehouse there hangs to this day...
Page 158 - Is always present, or tbe human ancestor has a very Intimate connection with the totem animal. Association serves as well as descent In America to give the totem, but It Is association with a nonhuman creature. In British Columbia, as In some of our tribes, the totem animal Is a regular source of food...
Page 148 - ... and a class of animals or plants, Australian totemism may be either in the female line (the child then belongs to the class of the mother), or in the male line (the child then belongs to the father's class of animals), the former sort being found more in the eastern part of the country, the latter in other parts. But the Australian group may be merely a fortuitous class of collective owners of a certain territory, and in this case the child belongs to its father's totemic class, but the group...
Page 148 - ... since the spirit may come from any ancestor.3 It is evident that totemism raises the whole question of the fundamental relation between things secular and things religious in primitive mentality. Are they radically divided, is there a distinct 1 Compare the paper of Mr. AR Brown at the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, August, 1914, In which the different forms of Australian totemism are classified. 2 Compare AM Hocrat, "The Dual Organization In Fiji.
Page 158 - To dub every cult of an animal totemic is like calling any object of religious regard a fetish; it tends to meaninglessness. From this point of view we may then reasonably admit as totemic what appears to be the earlier stage in this human bond, as illustrated by the cases forming what I have ventured to call the background of totemism, Australian, Peruvian, etc.. in which the reason for the bond is palpably because the totem (though not yet a real totem) is regarded as the provider of sustenance,...