If we accept the animal-worship and sacrificial communion theory, many a. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
These curious relics of the animal-worship of former times scarcely exist among the Makololo. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
The different Bechuana tribes are named after certain animals, showing probably that in former times they were addicted to animal-worship like the ancient Egyptians. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
De Brosses 'work had raised again the enduring problem for eighteenth-century thought of how to explain the discomforting evidence for Egyp - tian animal-worship or worse, African fetish-worship. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Loret maintains that Totemism existed among the early Egyptians, but evidently confounds this belief with animal-worship. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
The peculiarity of the animal-worship of Egypt, and of its bull-worship in particular, was that sanctity was attributed to. From Wordnik.com. [Prolegomena] Reference
Bavarian school systems; and that amiable animal-worship of his receives a fresh evidence in the mention and mourning of the death of. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
But this view, once quite common, is now generally abandoned, and fetishistic animal-worship is now considered as the true basis of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
If so animal-worship runs through the following stages: Man's close association with animal life fills his mental storehouse with composite notions — e. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
The animal-worship reached its utmost pitch of grossness and absurdity when certain individual brute beasts were declared to be incarnate deities, and treated accordingly. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Egypt] Reference
Nibhaz -- under that of a dog -- that Egyptian form of animal-worship having prevailed in ancient Syria, as is evident from the image of a large dog at the mouth of the Nahr-el-Kelb, or Dog river. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
For at the very time when this borrowing might have taken place, Egyptian idolatry had degenerated into such loathsome animal-worship, that not only the Christians, but the pagans themselves turned away from it in disgust (cf. Aristides, "Apol.", xii; Clement of Alexandria, "Cohortatio", ii). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Herbert Spencer classes Totemism under animal-worship and says its explanation is found in the primitive custom of naming children after natural objects from some accidental circumstances or fanciful resemblance, and then in confounding these metaphorical names or nicknames with the real objects, i.e. ancestors, and consequently paying to the animals the same reverence they paid their ancestors. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
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An antique reverence for the plant-world may lie, as we have seen, beneath the familiar institution of the Christmas-tree, some sort of animal-worship may be at the bottom of the | 358 | beast-masks common at winter festivals, survivals of sacrifice may linger in Christmas feasting, and in the family gatherings round the hearth may be preserved a dim memory of ancient domestic rites. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
It was in Egypt that animal-worship most prevailed, for the natives of that country deified among beasts the ox, the heifer, the sheep, and the goat, the dog, the cat, and the ape; among birds, the ibis, the hawk, and the crane; among reptiles, the crocodile, the frog, and the beetle; among fishes, all the fish of the Nile; some of these, as Osiris and. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
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