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Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion : As Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru (Classic Reprint)
Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion As Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru - Classic Reprint Author:Albert Reville LADIES A:ND GENTLE:hlE:N', :fi[y first duty is to acknowledge the signal honour which the Hibbert Trustees have done me in inviting Ine to follow such a series of mninellt lnen as the previous occupiers of this Chair, and to address you, in the n'ee and earnest spirit of truth-loving and impartial research, on those great questions of religious ... more »history which so justly pre-occupy the chosen spirits of European society. Our age is not, as is sometimes said, an age of positive science and of industrial discoveries alone, but also, and in a very high degree, an age of criticism and of history. I t is to history, indeed, morc than to anything else,
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LEC'l'GRE 1; INTROl)UCTIO~-CEXTRAL AMERICA A~D ~rEXICO; THEn~ COlI:IOX BASES OF CIVILIZATION; A~D RELTGfOX; r mportancc of thc history of Religion; The religions of ~Iexico and Peru, and the special; ance of studying them; r ourney to another planet; Parallelism of l'eligious history in the New Yorld; the Ohl; importand; 1Il; Central America and JIc:xico, and the authorities as to their; PdGE; 1; 7; 8; G; history and religion 14; Area and general character of this civilization 18; The Mayas 20; Toltccs, Chichimccs and Aztec~ 24; The Aztcc empire 29; Character of tho religious concoptions common to Central; America and Mexico 35; The serpent-god and the American cross 38; Estimate of the character aml significance of the parallelisms; observed 30; Yl cox'rEXT~; LECTunE II; THE DIUTIES AND MYTHS OF MEXICO; 1',,,C:'I1:; The Sun and ~Ioon 4-5; The pyramidal ::Uexjcan temples 47; The great temple of the city of Mexico 48; The narrative of Hernal Diaz; awl the two great Aztec deities,; UiLzilopochth and Tczcatlipoca 51; :Uythical significunce of Uitzilopochtli 54; Significance of Tezcatlipoca 60; The serpent-god QuctzalcoaH, god of the cast wind 62; Netzalhuatcoyotl, the philosopher-king of Tezcuco 69; N um l)e1' of }Iexican dei ties 70; Tlaloc, god of rain« less