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Stephanos Nirmalendu Ghosh Lectures 1928. Newness of Life

1928

With it were found typical Mousterian flints, also a number of shells and remains chiefly of the woolly rhinoceros, the horse, the reindeer, and the bison. "1 In the cave of Paviland, which opens on the face of a steep limestone cliff, about a mile east of Rhossilly, on the coast of Gower Wales, the earliest discovery of a member of the CrO-Magnon race was made. [...] One of the skeletons of Bra nn, found at a depth of 12 feet below the surface of the loess,' was lavishly adorned with tooth-shells, perforated stone discs, and bone ornaments made from the ribs of the rhinoceros or the mammoth and from the teeth of the mammoth asso- ciated with these was an ivory idol, apparently of a male figure, of which only the head, the torso and the left firm remain. [...] " The previous ceremonial burials, which began certainly among the Neanderthals in Mousterian times, always show the custom of burying the entire body ; in the Upper Palaeolithic there commences the new custom of imbedding the body in ochre or red coloring matter, and this obtains from the Aurignacian burials of Grimaldi to the Azilian burial of Mas The flexing of the limbs occurs frequently in U [...] Another practice soon arose, that of making a life-size portrait statue of the dead man's head and of placing it by the side of the actual body in the burial chamber. ' A further development was the making of a statue of the whole body. [...] By the side of this term, we find other poetic names, as ' the house of Tammuz,' based upon the fact that the solar god of spring and vegetation is obliged to spend half of the year in the abode of the dead, or Irkallu, which is also the designation of a god of the subterranean regioni, or Cuthah—the seat of the cult of Nergal,—because of the association of Nergal, the god of pestilence and death,
philosophy religion
Pages
182
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv Maurice Canney view
I Disposal of the Dead
1-23 unknown view
II Ideas About Death
24-49 unknown view
III Birth and Creation
50-68 unknown view
IV Givers of Life
69-85 unknown view
V Men and Gods
86-107 unknown view
VI The Idea of Holiness
108-127 unknown view
VII Religious Experience
128-147 unknown view
VIII Life More Abundant
148-168 unknown view
Backmatter
169-178 unknown view

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