Primitive Culture, Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art And Customs
Primitive Culture, Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art And Customs
Tylor, Edward Burnett, Sir, 1832-1917
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viL ; Grimm, * D. M.' p. 67. Q2 Digitized by Googk 228 ANIMISM. climbing the sacred tree to cut the mistletoe, and sacrificing the two white bulls beneath, are types from another national group.^ Teutonic descriptions begin with Tacitus, " Lucos ac nemora consecrant, deorumque nominibus adpellant secretum illud, quod sola reverentia vident," and the curious passage which describes the Semnones entering the sacred grove in bonds, a homage to the deity that dwelt there ; many a century after, the... Swedes were still hold- ing solemn sacrifice and hanging the carcases of the slaughtered beasts in the grove hard by the temple of Upsal.^ With Christianity comes a crusade against the holy trees and groves. Boniface hews down in the presence of the priests the huge oak of the Hessian Heaven-god, and builds of the timber a chapel to St. Peter. Amator expos- tulated with the hunters who hung the heads of wild beasts to the boughs of the sacred pear-tree of Auxerre, ** Hoc opus idololatrise culturse est, non christianse elegantissimsB disciplinse ; '* but this mild persuasion not availing, he chopped it down and burned it.
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