He did what the founders of religions and cults have done in other countries: he taught the people agriculture, metallurgy, stone-cutting, and the art of government.
We know that the founders of the Peruvian and Muyscan cults come from the east, because they are sun-gods.
The fact that these two bulls were worshipped by all the Egyptians,(222) seems to put them on a different footing from the ordinary sacred animals whose cults were purely local.
A limiting date to the antiquity of Śivaism and Vishnuism, as their cults may be called, is furnished by Buddhist literature, at any rate for north-eastern India.
Two stages can be distinguished in the relations between these cultsand Hinduism.
But more important both for the absorption of aboriginal cults and for its influence on speculation and morality is the part played by Śiva's wife or female counterpart.
The mixed cults of these borderlands readily professed allegiance to the Buddha but, not understanding Indian ideas, simply made him into a deity and having done this were not likely to repudiate other Indian deities.
Hereafter it is to be regarded as established that the most mystical form of the alimentary communion is found even in the most rudimentary cults known to-day.
It is useless to insist upon the strangeness of the conception which makes Christianity the latest of the cults of the dead.
The two cults are still only imperfectly separated; this is very probably because they were at first completely intermingled.
That is what has happened to many agrarian cults which have survived themselves as folk-lore.
Thus the different things classified in a clan constitute, as it were, so many nuclei around which new totemic cults are able to form.
By definition all these cults seem to be independent of all idea of the group.
It is for this reason that the different cults peculiar to each clan mutually touch and complete each other in such a way as to form a unified whole.
The cults of animals and plants depend upon numerous causes which cannot be reduced to one, without the error of too great simplicity.
He even went so far as to make it the source of all the animal-worshipping and plant-worshipping cults which are found among ancient peoples.
Here we touch the solid rock upon which all the cults are built and which has caused their persistence ever since human societies have existed.
It forms a veritable epitome of that which has been styled "The New Thought" as taught and expounded by its various cults and schools.
Here Jesus deals another powerful blow to the self-righteousness of the Pharisaical "good" people of the sects, creeds and cults of all lands, time and religions.
The unfortunate Nabonidus, too, attempted to replace the cults of Merodach and Nabu by that of Shamash.
Babylonian Influence upon the other Semites The influence of the Babylonian religion upon other Semitic cults is worthy of notice, although its effect upon the Jewish faith was more marked than on any other Semitic form of belief.
The Osirian cult is certainly animistic to a degree, but the various totemic cults which rivalled it and which it at last embraced held their own for many a day.
Just as the priests of Thebes and Memphis and On moulded the varying cults of Egypt, added to their mythology, and read into them ethical significance, so did the priests of Nippur and Erech mould and form the faith of Babylon.
The cult of Ishtar at Arbela is probably, too, of ancient date; but special circumstances that escape us appear to have led to a revival of interest in their cults during the period when Assyria reached the zenith of her power.
The victor merely upheld the cults of Merodach and Nabu for reasons of policy, and when in turn the Greeks ruled over Babylonia they followed the Persian lead in this respect.
One cause contributing to this was the absorption of the minor local cultsby deities associated with the great centres of Assyrian life.
Thus did pagan theology succeed in merging the cults of deities which might otherwise have been serious rivals and mutually destructive.
It is strange to see how closely the cults of the two gods were interwoven.
In one circumstance the Babylonian-Assyrian religion closely resembled the Egyptian, and that was the lasting effect wrought upon it by priestly cults and theological schools.
Without a household or a clan-cult, the individual was morally and socially dead; for other cults and clans excluded him.
Of the higher cults I shall speak further on; for the present let us consider only the communal cult, in its relation to communal life.
All these cultsare now linked together by tradition; and the devout Shintoist worships the divinities of all, collectively, in his daily morning prayer.
It would be difficult to see how many of these cults differ, either in principle or practice, or in the results wrought out in their disciples, from the Priestcraft already referred to.
But one cannot speak so lightly of the degrading cults which are grouped together under the name of Spiritualism.
We are not surprised to find that, in accordance with the foreign character of the cults thus maintained, the members of the associations are rarely citizens by birth, but women, freedmen, foreigners and even slaves.
The introduction of new cults also led to the institution of new associations; thus in 495 B.
It may seem unwise for me to attempt to group these three together and call them one school, because from this one district we have two distinct cults of Fetish in the West Indies, Voudou and Obeah (Tchanga and Wanga).
Regarding the Fetish view of the state and condition of the human soul there are certain ideas that I think I may safely say are common to the various cults of Fetish, both Negro and Bantu, in Western Africa.
Both these cults have sprung from slaves imported from Ellis's district, Obeah from slaves bought at Koromantin mainly, and Voudou from those bought at Dahomey.
The Bible pages bear witness, that Israelites too often tried to make the same fountain give forth sweet waters and bitter, and to grow thistles and grapes on the same stem, by uniting the cults of Jehovah and the Baalim.
The Oriental religions appealed strongly to the unprivileged classes, among which genuine religious faith was growing, while the official cults of the Roman Empire were unsatisfying in themselves and associated with tyranny.
It is in this conception, and not in ritual details, that we are justified in finding a real and deep influence of the mystery-cults upon Christianity.
The various psychic cults are trying to find a more satisfying idea of God; but they are simply making a bad matter worse.
A relative, visiting in my home, remarked that she was utterly confused about God; and that she had been reading some of the new cults of the day with the hope of finding something satisfying.
Two or three other cults believe that man's spirit is simply his physical breath.
Such identifications sprang from attempts to unify and amalgamate the many local cults of Egypt.
On the one side there was the conservative tendency to preserve the local cults with all their distinctive features, fresh, sharp, and crisp as they had been handed down from an immemorial past.
Their explanations of the worships it is indeed possible to reject, for the meaning of religious cults is often open to question; but resemblances of ritual are matters of observation.
And yet, amid all its hosts of contradictions and ways of salvation and sects and cults there have sounded, as a diapason through all the centuries, the fundamental teachings of Vedantism.
Another marked feature of the religious life of India, at present, is the existence there of several new cultsor religions.
Primitive religion, on the contrary, was at first subdivided or rather simply divided into cults of all sorts; it was only later that simplifications and generalizations arose.
The defects of these modern cults appear in their most exaggerated form in secularism, which had its hour of success in England.
A kind of radiation of its own, always the cults who sought the inner meanings formed within that Asian land and spread outward through the world.
Back of and under the teachings of the variouscults and schools, remains ever constant the Principle of the Mental Substance of the Universe.
They "treat the public" (to use the term favored by some of the metaphysical cults of the day) by holding the mental picture of that which they strongly desire to come to pass, and by concentrating their thought and will strongly upon it.
Cults have been formed upon this general basis, the main idea of their followers being that of attracting financial and other success by means of this phase of psychic force.
Great healing cults and organizations have been built up upon this basis, and the interest in the subject has taken on the form of a great popular movement.
What influence has she had upon Western cults and beliefs?
Of the sectarian cultsjust mentioned the brahmamaha, I.
This lower aspect of Indic religions hinges historically on the relation between the accepted cults of Hinduism[12] and those of the wild tribes.
We cannot venture to make any statements that will cast upon this question more light than has been thrown by the above account of the latter cults and of their points of contact with Hinduism.
We know what a great role was played by dramatic representations in numerous cults of antiquity, and how they came into especial use in connection with the veneration of the suffering and rising God-redeemers.
In all private religious associations and secret cults of later antiquity the members made use of a secret sign of recognition or union.
One understands the painful feeling of the Christians at the fact that the private sign used by them and their special sacraments were in use among all the secret cults of antiquity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cults" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
