Rawlinson’s _Inscriptions of Western Asia_, I., 17–26, col. 1, lines 63–69.
Brugsch’s _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, I., 8 f.; Villiers Stuart’s _Nile Gleanings_, Pl. xlv., p. 276.
Brugsch’s _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, I., 182 f.
Brugsch’s _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, II., 81 f.
Trumbull’s _Kadesh-barnea_, p. 341, note.
See _Penn. Mag. of Hist. and Biog._, VI., 412–434.
Carlyle’s _History of Frederick_, II., I., 71–74.
Rawlinson’s _Inscriptions of Western Asia_, I., 17–26, Col. III., ll. 84–89.
Brugsch’s _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, I., 81.
Brugsch’s _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, II., 82.
“The Shih King,” in _Sacred Books of the East_, III., 343, 392, 399, note, 420, 422 note.
Lacouperie’s _Western Origin of the Early Chinese Civilization_, pp. 79. 81.
I have this on the testimony of those who have often witnessed it.
On this point I am assured by missionaries and other dwellers in Persia.
Morier’s _Journey to Constantinople_, p. 75.
_Ibid._, p. 84 f. See, also, Morier’s _Second Journey through Persia_, p. 93 f.
Again, when the Shah of Persia was to enter Teheran, he was received outside of the walls, by prominent officials, with much ceremony. As he approached
Morier’s _Second Journey through Persia_, p. 387 f.
Layard’s _Nineveh and Babylon_ (Am. ed.), p. 35 f.
My informant, an eye-witness of this incident, was not sure whether it was a Prussian, an Austrian, or a Russian prince.
A question that forces itself on the mind, in connection with the study of a world-wide primitive rite like this of the Threshold Covenant, is, What was its origin? How came it to pass, that primitive peoples, in all parts of the world, were brought to attach such exceptionally sacred significance to the threshold of a hut, or tent, or cave, or house; of a palace or temple; of a domain, local or national; and to count its crossing by blood a form of holy covenanting between the parties engaged in it, and the deity invoked in the ceremony? This question goes back to the origin of religious rites among human beings, and its answer must, in order to commend itself to all, be in accordance with the natural outgrowths and the abnormal perversions of religious rites, in the main line of human development all the world over.