The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture

by H. Clay Trumbull

[355] Renouf’s The Relig. of Anc. Egypt, pp. 138-147.

[356] See Rec. of Past, X., 79-134.

[357] See page [102] f., supra.

[358] “Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.” (Deut. 8 : 3. See, also, Matt. 4 : 4; Job 23 : 12; John 4 : 34.)

[359] See John 8 : 31, 32; 16 : 13; 17 : 19.

[360] See Réville’s Native Relig. of Mex. and Peru, pp. 63, 163; Cory’s Anc. Frag., p. 5; Dubois’s Des. Man. and Cust. of India, Part II., chap. 31; Tylor’s Prim. Cult., II., 278 ff.; Dorman’s Orig. of Prim. Supers., p. 150; Andersson’s Lake Ngami, p. 220.

[361] Bancroft’s Native Races, V., 547 f.

[362] Monier Williams’s Hinduism, p. 60.

[363] Bancroft’s Native Races, V., 548.

[364] Bancroft’s Native Races, II., 710.