Word: cultus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Carpenter gave the second lecture in his course in Divinity Chapel last night, on the subject of the "Cultus of the Dead...
...cultus of the dead comprises the observances and offerings paid to the dead as sentient beings. So widespread has been this cultus from the earliest ages that Spencer tries to derive all religion from it. Savage minds connect events in causal sequence very readily and they invoke the dead according as they see good or evil following their acts. The sentiments which lead to this invocation of the dead vary among different people. Sometimes the terror of the dead predominates, and we find various charms and obstacles employed to prevent the return of the dead to the places which they...
Among other people affection for the deceased was the motive in the cultus of the dead. Food was often forced into the mouths of the corpses and left with the bodies in the tombs. From providing food for the dead it was a simple transition to supply them with other comforts. Scores of human beings were sacrificed in order to add splendor to the entry of the dead into the new existence...
Lecture. History of Ideas of a Future Life. II., The Dead in Relation to the Living - The Cultus of the Dead (1). Professor J. Estlin Carpenter. Divinity Chapel...
...Cultus of the Dead...