[210] The idea of mimicry survived long, and indeed still exists, in what is called “sympathetic magic”; when, for instance, to produce blindness in an enemy, an image is made of him and its eyes transfixed with thorns. Compare Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, p. 12.
[211] Myths of the New World, p. 17.
[212] Curr, The Australian Race, vol. ii., pp. 66, 67.
[213] Cogolludo, Historia de Yucatan, lib. iv., cap. viii.
[214] Brinton, Nagualism, p. 53.
[215] Freihold, Die Lebensgeschichte der Menschheit, p. 134. His expressions are: 1. Das Menschenwerden des Göttlichen; and, 2. Die Vergötterung des Menschen.
[216] Religion of the Semites, p. 263. This statement will also be considered in the sixth lecture of this series.
[217] Indeed, among the Patagonian Indians, according to a competent observer, there are no fixed religious ceremonies whatever, except those of a personal character, referring to births, marriages, deaths etc.—George C. Musters, Among the Patagonians, chap. v.
[218] The anaphora, remarks the Rev. John M. Neale, in his History of the Holy Eastern Church, vol. ii., chap, i., has always been “by far the most important part” of the Christian liturgies. It recurs in nearly all primitive worship.
[219] Granger, Worship of the Romans, pp. 272, 303, etc.