Identifier: ancientfaithsemb02inma_0 (find matches)
Title: Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names: or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, by an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings, and hierarchs
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876
Subjects: Religions Names, Personal Rites and ceremonies Symbolism
Publisher: London, Trubner & co.
Contributing Library: UCLA Library, Preservation Department
Digitizing Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles

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Sophia and Logos. She is also the same aswill. The Sama Vedha, for example, when speak-ing of the divine cause of creation, says, Heexperienced no bliss, being isolated — alone. Heardently desired a companion, and immediately thedesire was gratified. He caused his body to divide;and became male and female (see Fig. 44), theyunited, and human beings were made. Sacti isalways alluded to as Maya (delusion), and Prak-rite, or nature, who is one with Maya, because shebeguiles all beings.129 Having, as it were, sanctified the power by whichthe great father carried out his designs, a style ofworship was rendered to her that was supposed tobe adapted to her sex. She was addressed withthe most flattering and endearing epithets that mancould devise. Her worshippers vied with each other 127 See Notes on the Dahoman, by Burton, in Anthropological Memoirs(London, Triibner, 1865), vols, i., p. 320. 128 Sellon, in Anthropological Memoirs, vol. i. and ii. 129 Sellon, Op. Cit, Sacti) 645 Figure 44.
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in the invention of lovely and powerful attributes ;and there is not a single form of homage, addressedby the Papist to Mary, which has not been bestowedon the Sacti by her worshippers. The Sactas,her adorers, see in every woman an effigy of thegreat goddess ; and, during worship, many dress upa Brahminical girl or woman with great splendour,and adorn her with jewels and garlands,—just as I 646 Sacti) have seen, in Papal Churches, a wax or wooden imageof Mary decked. Mr. Sellon (from whose essays inthe Anthropological Memoirs I am drawing muchinformation) describes (vol. ii., p. 267), at consider-able length, the nature of the ceremonies, and how,from being reverent at first, they pass into a veritableorgy, the mystic merging into the real, into which itis unnecessary to follow him. Mr. Colebrooke (inthe Religion of the Hindoos, Williams and Norgate,London, 1858,) tells us, p. 124, that some of thesect we speak of have adopted the singular practiceof presenting to their own wives th

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