The Idea of God in Early Religions

by F. B. Jevons

INDEX[ToC]

• Aaron, [11]
• Adoration, [108 ff.], [126], [144]
• Aeschylus, [37]
• Aetiological myths, [50], [53]
• Africans, [59]
• Allegory, [47]
• Animism, [17], [35], [50]
• Anthropomorphism, [18 ff.], [27]
• Anti-social character of fetishism, [8], [14]
• Anu, [136]
• Aristotle, [121]
• Assyria, [134 ff.]
• Atonement, [54], [75]
• Australians, [57], [58], [59], [86-89], [113], [114]
• Awe, [24]
• Axe-heads, [11]
• Aztecs, [77], [78], [88]
  
• Babylonian psalms, [145]
• Basutos, [143]
• Being, and idea, [161 ff.]
• Bergson, [123], [125]
• Black-fellows, [57]
• Bow, and arrow, [42]
• Bull-roarer, [42]
• Burnt-offerings, [72]
  
• Calamity, [73], [97], [103]
• Ceres, [84]
• Chicomecoatl, [84]
• Child (the), and the community, [1], [14]
• Child (the), and self-consciousness, [3]
• Children, their toys, [41];
  • and tales, [41];
  • community of, [42]
• Chota Nagpur, [63], [64], [65], [83], [85], [88]
• Christ, [100]
• Christianity, [19], [26], [57], [148], [151]
• Commerce, [69]
• Common consciousness, capable of emotion and purpose, [2], [3], [14];
  • the source and the criterion of the individual's speech, thought and action, [2], [3];
  • its attitude towards magic, [9 ff.], [18];
  • and tales, [31];
  • and mythology, [37], [38], [48]
• Communion (Christian), [77]
• Communion, [110], [111], [147]
• Corn-deities, [82 ff.]
• Counter-spells, [134 ff.]
• Covenant, the old and the new, [100]
• Covenant-theory, [92 ff.], [98 ff.]
• Cuneiform inscriptions, [134 ff.], [147]
• Custom, [41], [42], [98]
  
• Desire (and prayer), [118 ff.]
• Desires, of individual and community, [7], [8], [9]
• Digging-stick, [43]
• Di indigites, [51-53], [56], [58], [83], [88]
• Dionysius Thrax, [121]
• Disease of language, [33], [34]
• Dog, and master, [25]
• Do ut des, [68]
  
• Eating with the god, [74], [77], [91]
• Ecstasy, [110]
• Elijah, [13], [119]
• Emotion, [2], [3], [7], [23], [54], [55]
• Emperor, of Japan, [93], [95]
• Euripides, [37]
• Europe, [57]
• Evolution, and revelation, [29], [122], [150], [152 ff.]
• Exodus, [93]
• Expectation, [164]
• Experience, [44], [161 ff.]
  
• Faith, [62]
• Fallacies, [127], [128], [157]
• Fear, [25], [103]
• Feast, sacrificial, [74 ff.]
• Ferrier, [121]
• Fetishism, [4-8], [13-15], [20], [21], [27], [30], [31], [36], [120], [123], [126], [129-131], [156]
• Fiction, [31], [32]
• Finno-Ugrians, [143]
• Fire-god, [136]
• First-fruits, [80 ff.], [90], [115]
• Folk-lore, [57]
• Food-offerings, [72], [78], [89]
• Food-supply, [12], [13]
• Foraminifera, [124]
• Forms, of speech and of religion, [106]
  
• Gesture-language, [66], [114]
• Gift-theory, [68 ff.], [95]
• Gloucester, [160]
• Godhead, unity of, [23];
  • a personal being, [26]
• Gods, [4-6], [8], [12], [14], [16], [21], [22], [25], [26], [44]
• Gold-coast, [143]
• Grammar, [121]
• Gravitation, [153]
• Greece, [104], [111]
  
• Harvest-gods, [94 ff.]
• Harvest-offerings, [114], [115]
• Harvest-rites, [81], [85]
• Hero, of tales, [30];
  • of myths, [31]
• History of religion, [23], [27], [28], [29], [30]
  
• Idea, and being, [161 ff.]
• Idol, and fetish, [4], [13]
• Iliad, [41]
• Imagination, in tales and myths, [49], [50], [51]
• Immorality, of mythology, [47]
• Immortality, [105]
• Individual (the), [4], [14], [132 ff.]
• Indo-Europeans, [47], [48]
• Inference, [162 ff.]
• Israel, [93], [100]
• Italy, [51], [56]
  
• Japan, [92 ff.]
• Jehovah, [93]
• Jews, [26]
  
• King Lear, [156 ff.]
  
• Language, [101], [102], [106], [107]
• Law, [153 ff.]
• Locutius, [52]
• Logic, [121]
• Love, [26], [100], [105], [150]
  
• Magic, [8 f.], [9], [10], [11 f.], [12], [91], [116], [119], [120], [123], [125], [133 ff.]
• Maize-mother, [77], [88]
• Maklu tablets, [134 ff.]
• Mamit, [145]
• Max Müller, [33], [34]
• Meal, sacrificial, [74 ff.]
• Memory, [164]
• Mexico, [77], [78], [88], [91], [110], [111]
• Miracles, [10 ff.]
• Monotheism, [58], [61], [155]
• Moods, [119]
• Morality, [21], [22], [25], [26], [41], [44-46], [125], [141 ff.], [154]
• Moses, [93], [119]
• Mysteries, [104 ff.], [111]
• Mysticism, [110]
• Myths, [20-22], [30 ff.], [39], [40], [43], [47], [48-52], [55-58], [60]
  
• Names, [16], [52], [57], [64], [82 ff.]
• Narratives, and myths, [33], [40], [49], [51]
• Negroes, [15]
• Nursery-tales, [41]
  
• Obedience, [98], [100], [101]
• Oblations, [65], [66], [73], [97], [98]
• Offerings, [67 ff.], [85 ff.]
• Optative sentences, [139 ff.]
• Orbona, [52]
• Origin, of gods and of mythology, [34]
• Ossipago, [51]
  
• Penitential Psalms, [145], [147]
• Personality, [3], [4], [11], [17], [20], [28], [29], [45], [54], [55], [82], [83], [86]
• Peruvians, [143]
• Petitions, [126], [128], [130 ff.]
• Plague, [52]
• Plato, [92]
• Polydaemonism, [16 ff.];
  • change to polytheism, [18], [30];
  • and mythology, [31], [32]
• Polytheism, [4], [7], [16], [18], [22], [30-32], [35], [36], [40], [61], [155]
• Possession, [110]
• Power, man of, [12 ff.]
• Prayer, [108 ff.]
• Priests, [120]
• Principles, [121], [123], [128], [153 ff.]
• Prophet and magician, [10 ff.]
• Protoplasm, [124]
• Psalms of David, [146], [147]
  
• Quietism, [112]
  
• Rain-making, [9], [12], [13], [119]
• Reconciliation, [98]
• Reflection, [33], [36], [53-56], [60], [96]
• Religion, [8 ff.], [35], [39], [54-56], [104 ff.]
• Revelation, [29], [58]
• Reverence, [24]
• Ritual, [31], [57], [61-63], [101 ff.], [114]
• Romans, the, [52], [53]
  
• Sacrifice, [52], [63], [64], [67 ff.], [72], [73], [79 ff.], [85], [97 ff.]
• Salvation, [105]
• Samoans, [143]
• Search, for God, [59]
• Seed-time, [115]
• Self, [3], [4], [7], [104], [132 ff.], [137], [148]
• Self-renunciation, [149]
• Shinto, [92 ff.]
• Sign (of the cross), [116]
• Sin, [103], [104], [145 ff.]
• Socrates, [55]
• Sophocles, [37]
• Species, [83 ff.], [91], [92]
• Speech, [3], [121], [153 ff.]
• Spells, [115 ff.], [134 ff.], [150], [151]
• Survivals, [38], [56], [57], [58], [59]
  
• Taboo, [145]
• Tales, and myths, [31-33], [49], [51]
• Totems, [84 ff.]
• Tylor, Professor, [15]
  
• Vagitanus, [51]
• Vegetation-deities, [81 ff.]
• Veneration, [151]
• Viriplaca, [52]
  
• Water, [135]
• Way of the Gods, [92 ff.]
• Western Africa, [8], [15]
• Will, of God, [149 ff.]
• Wind, spirits of, [93 ff.]
• Witches, [134 ff.]
• Worship, [19], [55], [57], [58], [60-63]
  
• Xilonen, [84]
  
• Zulus, [143]

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