Ten Great Religions eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 690 pages of information about Ten Great Religions.

Ten Great Religions eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 690 pages of information about Ten Great Religions.
218.
  " their ritual of the dead, 219.
  " their funeral ceremonies, 220.
  " their domestic and social virtues, 221.
  " specimen of their hymns, 222, 223.
  " mysterious character of their theology, 223.
  " sources of our knowledge concerning, 224.
  " modern works upon (note), 225.
  " their doctrine of transmigration (note), 226.
  " their animal worship, 227.
  " their tendency to nature-worship, 229.
  " their origin, 230-236. 
Epictetus, his view of religion, 343. 
Epicureans, believed in God, but not in religion, 297. 
Essential idea of Brahmanism, 21.
  " " of Buddhism, 21.
  " " of Confucius, 22.
  " " of Zoroaster, 22.
  " " of Egypt, 23.
  " " of Greece, 24. 
Ethnic religions, defined, 15.
  " " most religions are such, 15.
  " " related to ethnology, 15.
  " " limited to races, 17. 
Euripides, his tragedy anti-religious, 285.

F.

Faunus, an old Italian god, 330. 
Fenrir, the wolf, how he was fastened, 382. 
Feudal system, its essential character, 391. 
Flamens, priests of particular deities, 336. 
Fontus, god of fountains, 328. 
Frey, and his daughter Freyja, 379.

G.

Geiger, Swedish history quoted, 357. 
Genius, a Roman god, 329. 
German races essentially Protestant, 395. 
German tribes converted by Arian missionaries, 506. 
Gods of Egypt, the three orders of, 239.
  " " " names of the first order, 239.
  " " " character of the first order, 240.
  " " " significant of the divine unity, 242.
  " " " second order of, their human qualities, 243.
  " " " third order of, the Osiris group, 242. 
Gods of Greece before Homer, 270.
  " " " oldest were the Uranids, 270.
  " " " second race of, the Titans, 271.
  " " " third race of, the Olympians, 271.
  " " " the oldest were gods of the elements, 272.
  " " " worshipped by the Dorians, were Apollo and Artemis, 274.
  " " " local distribution of, 275.
  " " " first symbolical, afterward personal, 276.
  " " " in Hesiod and Homer, 277.
  " " " poetic character of, 279.
  " " " in Homer very human beings, 280.
  " " " as described by the lyric poets, 283.
  " " " as described by the tragedians, 284.
  " " " as unfolded by the artists, 286.
  " " " as seen in the works of Phidias, 287.
  " " " as described by the philosophers, 291.
  " " " how related to Christianity, 310. 
Gods of the Vedas are the evil spirits of the Avesta, 202. 
Greece, its physical geography, 259.

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