Religion And the Modern Mind: Lectures Delivered Before the Glasgow University Society of St. Ninian
Religion And the Modern Mind: Lectures Delivered Before the Glasgow University Society of St. Ninian
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' This is also true of plants.
• Tylor, Primitive Culture: jinimitm, pp. 469, 500, ( 1 112 ST NINI AN LECTURES became one, and man gained as friends a group of spirits. This group of friendly spirits could be angered or estranged, and then, as well as at other special times, the blood covenant had to be renewed, by e.g. the killing, the mingling of the blood, and the eating of a member either of the human or the animal group. Here is the beginning of sacrifice and of worship. At first the...se spirits were thought of as confined to their own thing, or to departments of nature, and they had only general names, generic attributes, no life history, and were worshipped mainly by magical rites.
When the groups grew into clans these totem spirits became the spirits of the clan. Gradually the spirits which in experience were found to be least powerful, were less and less reverenced, and the more powerful obtained individual names, personal attributes, finally a life history, with domains more clearly defined, and there came into the worship elements of propitiation : these spirits became gods.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
xiii.
' This is also true of plants.
• Tylor, Primitive Culture: jinimitm, pp. 469, 500, ( 1 112 ST NINI AN LECTURES became one, and man gained as friends a group of spirits. This group of friendly spirits could be angered or estranged, and then, as well as at other special times, the blood covenant had to be renewed, by e.g. the killing, the mingling of the blood, and the eating of a member either of the human or the animal group. Here is the beginning of sacrifice and of worship. At first the...se spirits were thought of as confined to their own thing, or to departments of nature, and they had only general names, generic attributes, no life history, and were worshipped mainly by magical rites.
When the groups grew into clans these totem spirits became the spirits of the clan. Gradually the spirits which in experience were found to be least powerful, were less and less reverenced, and the more powerful obtained individual names, personal attributes, finally a life history, with domains more clearly defined, and there came into the worship elements of propitiation : these spirits became gods.
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