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The Blood Covenant
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Apart from, and yet linked with, the explicit proofs of the rite of blood-covenanting throughout the primitive world, there are many indications of the root-idea of this form of covenanting; in the popular estimate of blood, and of all the marvelous possibilities through blood-transference. These indications, also, are of old, and from everywhere.
To go back again to the earlier written history of the world; it is evident that the ancient Egyptians recognized blood as in a peculiar sense life itself; and that they counted the heart, āas the blood-source and the blood-centre, āthe symbol and the substance of life. In the Book of the Dead, the deceased speaks of his heart, āor his blood-fountain, āas his life; and as giving him the right to appear in the presence of the gods: "My heart was my mother; my heart was my mother; my heart was my being on earth; placed within me; returned to me by the chief gods, placing me before the gods"
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[2] Prov. 18 : 24.
[3] John 15 : 13.
[4] See Laneās Lex. s. v. āHejĆ¢b.ā
[5] Eccl. 4 : 9, 10.
[6] See Freytag, and Catafago, s. v.
[7] See āBrothers of the Covenant,ā p. 6 , supra.
[8] Sprachliches aus den Zeltlagern der syrischen WĆ¼ste, p. 37.
[9] See Redhouseās Turkish and English Dictionary, s. vv. sood and soot.
[10] See Lane, and Freytag, s. vv. radaāa, and thady.
[11] See reference to Ibn HishĆ¢m, 125, in Prof. W. Robertson Smithās Old Test. in Jewish Church, Notes to Lect. XII. See, also, p. 59 , infra.
[12] See Lane, and Freytag, s. v. sahama; also Smithās Old Test. in Jewish Church, Notes to Lect. XII.
[13] See Livingstoneās Travels and Res. in So. Africa, pp. 290-296.
[14] Ibid., p. 525.
[15] See Livingstoneās Travels and Res. in So. Africa, p. 324 f.
[16] See Livingstoneās Travels and Res. in So. Africa, p. 526.
[17] Ibid., p. 213.
[18] Cameronās Across Africa, I., 333.
[19] Ibid., I., 333 f.
[20] Across Africa, I., 369.
[21] See page 9 , supra.
[22] Through the Dark Continent, I., 107, 130 f.
[23] Ibid., I., 492.
[24] Ibid., I., 52, 492.
[25] How I found Livingstone, pp. 267-304.
[26] Thro. Dark Cont., I., 489 f.
[27] Ibid., I., 130.
[28] Ibid., I., 487-492.
[29] Thro. Dark Cont., I., 493.
[30] Ibid., I., 493 f.
[31] Thro. Dark Cont., I., 123.
[32] Ibid., I., 227-237.
[33] Thro. Dark Cont., I., 268.
[34] Ibid., II., 144-146.
[35] Thro. Dark Cont., II., 177 f.
[36] Thro. Dark Cont., II., 188.
[37] Thro. Dark Cont., II., 305 f.
[38] Ibid., II., 315.
[39] Thro. Dark Cont., II., 330-332.
[40] Thro. Dark Cont., II., 402-408.
[41] The Congo, I., 304-312.
[42] Thro. Dark Cont., II., 281-283.
[43] Thro. Dark Cont., II., 286.
[44] See pages 26 - 28 , supra.
[45] āBula Matari,ā or āRock Breaker,ā or Road Maker, was a name given to Stanley by the natives.
[46] The Congo, I., 383-385.
[47] See page 7 f., supra.
[48] The Congo, II., 21-24.
[49] ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- The Blood Covenant
- PREFACE.
- I.THE PRIMITIVE RITE ITSELF.
- II.SUGGESTIONS AND PERVERSIONS OF THE RITE.
- III.INDICATIONS OF THE RITE IN THE BIBLE.
- APPENDIX.
- FOOTNOTES: