Animism; Or, Thought Currents of Primitive Peoples
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He will find there that springs also come under the same category. Thus the spring at Kolophon rendered inspired the priest who drank it (Tacitus, Annals, ii. 54; Pliny, ii. 103, 232). One recalls inevitably the many sacred springs throughout the world, the san(flity being but the attenuated form in which the old belief has come down to us. 72 ANIMISM order that no calamity may be suffered in the crossing." The survival in poetry of the thought of a river as a person may be illus- trated from t...he Ramayana, where a river becomes the wife of a king (xv. 20: 13), or falls in love and bears a son (xiii. 2: 18). The Ganges is a daughter and a goddess, becomes a spouse and bears a son. In the days of wife-capture, primitives would see in a torrent into which a maiden had fallen a male capturing his wife; or, in case of a man falling in, they might think of a fierce female seizing a husband. It will be recalled that the Egyptians thought of the Nile as a short ugly male with huge woman's breasts, sym- bolizing the fertility which the river brought to the land.
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