Animal cults of the ancient people Голосов: 1 Адрес блога: http://totem.mirgt.com Добавлен: 2012-11-02 00:40:04 блограйдером Janer

Sacred dung-beetle in Ancient Egypt

2013-08-26 15:26:54 (читать в оригинале)

Many more animals, birds and fishes were regarded as sacred in Ancient Egypt, but one of them, the sacred dung-beetle, scarabaeus, or, for short, scarab, deserves special mention. The Egyptians noticed an interesting detail in the behaviour of this beetle. At a certain season it rolls a ball of dung and pushes it in some hole. [...]

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Sacred animals in Ancient Egypt

2013-07-26 19:17:05 (читать в оригинале)

In 1851 French archaeologists discovered in the vicinity of Cairo a huge underground tomb which contained numerous mummies of sacred bulls laid in sarcophagi of red and black polished granite. This tomb had been used for the burial of sacred bulls for 1500 years. Cows, rams, sheep, goats and cats had their own priests and their [...]

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The cow cult

2013-06-26 16:13:33 (читать в оригинале)

Primitive men, as was only natural, worshipped wild animals. The people who lived in ancient states deified animals which had practical importance, primarily domestic animals. Among wild animals they worshipped those which were useful or at any rate were believed to be useful. This is one of the reasons certain animals came to be worshipped. [...]

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Other myths about animals

2013-05-26 01:05:39 (читать в оригинале)

The Algonquin Indians have an interesting legend about another aspect of the earth's creation, also a very important one. It appears that in the beginning all earth was covered with snow and the waters had a thick crust of ice. Life was very hard. Then a nice animal Weasel chewed a hole in the heavens [...]

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Legends in which animals are the creators of the world

2013-04-28 14:21:42 (читать в оригинале)

There are quite a few legends, however, where animals and not birds were instrumental in the world's creation. Here is an Australian version. There once lived Great Kangaroo, and it was attacked by vicious dogs. He saw that there was no escaping them and that they were going to tear him to pieces, and then he [...]