The Idea of God in Early Religions

Chapter 11

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Australians, 57, 58, 59, 86-89, 113, 114

Awe, 24

Axe-heads, 11

Aztecs, 77, 78, 88

Babylonian psalms, 145

Basutos, 143

Being, and idea, 161 ff.

Bergson, 123, 125

Black-fellows, 57

Bow, and arrow, 42

Bull-roarer, 42

Burnt-offerings, 72

Calamity, 73, 97, 103

Ceres, 84

Chicomecoatl, 84

Child (the), and the community, 1, 14

Child (the), and self-consciousness, 3

Children, their toys, 41; and tales, 41; community of, 42

Chota Nagpur, 63, 64, 65, 83, 85, 88

Christ, 100

Christianity, 19, 26, 57, 148, 151

Commerce, 69

Common consciousness, capable of emotion and purpose, 2, 3, 14; the source and the criterion of the individual's speech, thought and action, 2, 3; its attitude towards magic, 9 ff., 18; and tales, 31; and mythology, 37, 38, 48

Communion (Christian), 77

Communion, 110, 111, 147

Corn-deities, 82 ff.

Counter-spells, 134 ff.

Covenant, the old and the new, 100

Covenant-theory, 92 ff., 98 ff.

Cuneiform inscriptions, 134 ff., 147

Custom, 41, 42, 98

Desire (and prayer), 118 ff.

Desires, of individual and community, 7, 8, 9

Digging-stick, 43

Di indigites, 51-53, 56, 58, 83, 88

Dionysius Thrax, 121

Disease of language, 33, 34

Dog, and master, 25

_Do ut des_, 68

Eating with the god, 74, 77, 91

Ecstasy, 110

Elijah, 13, 119

Emotion, 2, 3, 7, 23, 54, 55

Emperor, of Japan, 93, 95

Euripides, 37

Europe, 57

Evolution, and revelation, 29, 122, 150, 152 ff.

Exodus, 93

Expectation, 164

Experience, 44, 161 ff.

Faith, 62

Fallacies, 127, 128, 157

Fear, 25, 103

Feast, sacrificial, 74 ff.

Ferrier, 121

Fetishism, 4-8, 13-15, 20, 21, 27, 30, 31, 36, 120, 123, 126, 129-131, 156

Fiction, 31, 32

Finno-Ugrians, 143

Fire-god, 136

First-fruits, 80 ff., 90, 115

Folk-lore, 57

Food-offerings, 72, 78, 89

Food-supply, 12, 13

Foraminifera, 124

Forms, of speech and of religion, 106

Gesture-language, 66, 114

Gift-theory, 68 ff., 95

Gloucester, 160

Godhead, unity of, 23; a personal being, 26

Gods, 4-6, 8, 12, 14, 16, 21, 22, 25, 26, 44

Gold-coast, 143

Grammar, 121

Gravitation, 153

Greece, 104, 111

Harvest-gods, 94 ff.

Harvest-offerings, 114, 115

Harvest-rites, 81, 85

Hero, of tales, 30; of myths, 31

History of religion, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30

Idea, and being, 161 ff.

Idol, and fetish, 4, 13

_Iliad_, 41

Imagination, in tales and myths, 49, 50, 51

Immorality, of mythology, 47

Immortality, 105

Individual (the), 4, 14, 132 ff.

Indo-Europeans, 47, 48

Inference, 162 ff.

Israel, 93, 100

Italy, 51, 56

Japan, 92 ff.

Jehovah, 93

Jews, 26

_King Lear_, 156 ff.

Language, 101, 102, 106, 107

Law, 153 ff.

Locutius, 52

Logic, 121

Love, 26, 100, 105, 150

Magic, 8 f., 9, 10, 11 f., 12, 91, 116, 119, 120, 123, 125, 133 ff.

Maize-mother, 77, 88

Maklu tablets, 134 ff.

Mamit, 145

Max Müller, 33, 34

Meal, sacrificial, 74 ff.

Memory, 164

Mexico, 77, 78, 88, 91, 110, 111

Miracles, 10 ff.

Monotheism, 58, 61, 155

Moods, 119

Morality, 21, 22, 25, 26, 41, 44-46, 125, 141 ff., 154

Moses, 93, 119

Mysteries, 104 ff., 111

Mysticism, 110

Myths, 20-22, 30 ff., 39, 40, 43, 47, 48-52, 55-58, 60

Names, 16, 52, 57, 64, 82 ff.

Narratives, and myths, 33, 40, 49, 51

Negroes, 15

Nursery-tales, 41

Obedience, 98, 100, 101

Oblations, 65, 66, 73, 97, 98

Offerings, 67 ff., 85 ff.

Optative sentences, 139 ff.

Orbona, 52

Origin, of gods and of mythology, 34

Ossipago, 51

Penitential Psalms, 145, 147

Personality, 3, 4, 11, 17, 20, 28, 29, 45, 54, 55, 82, 83, 86

Peruvians, 143

Petitions, 126, 128, 130 ff.

Plague, 52

Plato, 92

Polydaemonism, 16 ff.; change to polytheism, 18, 30; and mythology, 31, 32

Polytheism, 4, 7, 16, 18, 22, 30-32, 35, 36, 40, 61, 155

Possession, 110

Power, man of, 12 ff.

Prayer, 108 ff.

Priests, 120

Principles, 121, 123, 128, 153 ff.

Prophet and magician, 10 ff.

Protoplasm, 124

Psalms of David, 146, 147

Quietism, 112

Rain-making, 9, 12, 13, 119

Reconciliation, 98

Reflection, 33, 36, 53-56, 60, 96

Religion, 8 ff., 35, 39, 54-56, 104 ff.

Revelation, 29, 58

Reverence, 24

Ritual, 31, 57, 61-63, 101 ff., 114

Romans, the, 52, 53

Sacrifice, 52, 63, 64, 67 ff., 72, 73, 79 ff., 85, 97 ff.

Salvation, 105

Samoans, 143

Search, for God, 59

Seed-time, 115

Self, 3, 4, 7, 104, 132 ff., 137, 148

Self-renunciation, 149

Shinto, 92 ff.

Sign (of the cross), 116

Sin, 103, 104, 145 ff.

Socrates, 55

Sophocles, 37

Species, 83 ff., 91, 92

Speech, 3, 121, 153 ff.

Spells, 115 ff., 134 ff., 150, 151

Survivals, 38, 56, 57, 58, 59

Taboo, 145

Tales, and myths, 31-33, 49, 51

Totems, 84 ff.

Tylor, Professor, 15

Vagitanus, 51

Vegetation-deities, 81 ff.

Veneration, 151

Viriplaca, 52

Water, 135

Way of the Gods, 92 ff.

Western Africa, 8, 15

Will, of God, 149 ff.

Wind, spirits of, 93 ff.

Witches, 134 ff.

Worship, 19, 55, 57, 58, 60-63

Xilonen, 84

Zulus, 143

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