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.
  " its mountains, climate, and soil, 260.
  " its language akin to Sanskrit, 261.
  " its people an Aryan race, 262.
  " first inhabited by the Pelasgians, 262.
  " afterward received the Dorians, 264.
  " influenced powerfully by Egypt, 265. 
Greek mysteries, derived from Asia and Egypt, 302.
  " " gods of belong to the underworld, 302.
  " " alien to the Greek mind, 303.
  " " Eleusinian, in honor of Ceres, 305.
  " " in honor of Bacchus, derived from India, 305.
  " " Orphic, and their doctrines, 306.
  " religion, an essentially human religion, 266.
  " " its gods, men and women, 267.
  " " has no founder or restorer or priesthood, 267.
  " " its gods evolved, not emanations, 268.
  " " its freedom and hilarity, 269.
  " " as viewed by Paul, 308.
  " " as regarded by the early Christian fathers, 312.
  " " and philosophy, a preparation for Christianity, 313.
  " worship, sacrifices, prayers, and festivals, 297.
  " " in early times, 298.
  " " had numerous festivals, 299.
  " " connected with augurs and oracles, 300. 
Gylfi, deluding of, in the Edda, 369.

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Haruspices, derived from Etruria, 338. 
Havamal, or proverbs of the Scandinavians, 366. 
Heathen religions must contain more truth than error, 6.
  " " cannot have been human inventions, 6.
  " " must contain some revolution from God, 8.
  " " how viewed by Christ and his apostles, 9.
  " " how treated by Paul at Athens, 10.
  " " how regarded by the early apologists, 12. 
Heimdall, warder of the gods, 380. 
Herder, his description of David, 425. 
Hesiod, his account of the three groups of gods, 270. 
Hindoo Epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata, 128.
  " " they refer to the time succeeding the Vedic age, 128.
  " " composed before the time of Buddhism, 129. 
Hindoos, antagonisms of their character, 82.
  " acute in speculations, but superstitious, 82.
  " unite luxury and asceticism, 82.
  " tend to idealism and religious spiritualism, 83.
  " their doctrine of Maya, 84. 
Hindoo year, calendar of, 132.
  " " begins in April, a sacred month, 132. 
Holy of Holies, in the Egyptian and Jewish temples, 252. 
Homer his description of the gods, 280. 
Horace, his view of religion, 346. 
Hyksos, constitute the middle monarchy, 232.
  " expelled from Egypt after five hundred years, 233.
  " Hebrews in Egypt during their ascendency, 234, 235.
  " or Shepherd Kings in Egypt, 213.
  " a Semitic people from Asia, 232.
  " conquered Lower Egypt B.C. 2000, 233. 
Hyndla, song of, extracts from, 366.

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