But that God is himself the product of a lengthy process of abstraction, the concentrated quintessence of the earlier tribal and national gods.
The old tribal and national religions originating in nature were not propagandist and lost all power of resistance as soon as the independence of the tribe and people was destroyed.
What authority and jurisdiction does Shane claim by virtue of tribal election?
But as Shane grew up he learned to oppose this arrangement, and, having good abilities and boundless ambition, he was designated by a great portion of the clan as successor to the tribal sovereignty.
Shane, who had recovered from his defeat by the O'Donnells, and secured himself by assassination against his most dangerous rival, claimed both the Earldom of Tyrone and the tribal sovereignty of the North.
They have but one name other than their tribal name.
They had tribal governments, with differing customs and languages.
All are interwoven with tribal law and custom to such an extent that neglect, on the part of the individual, amounts to a crime against the community, and hence is punished with public indignation and ostracism.
He was initiated into tribal custom and usage, and became versed in a tribal language consisting chiefly of abbreviations and portmanteau words.
Prevented from returning to Europe through the outbreak of a tribal war in Tartary, the travellers proceeded to Bokhara, where they stayed three years.
A tribal war prevented me from carrying out my intention of journeying overland to Muscat, so I determined to proceed to Meccah with the Damascus caravan.
He may be stabbed by some brother fanatic or slain in a tribal skirmish.
No doubt, tribal jealousy was partly the cause of this limited recognition, but probably the confusion incident to the Philistine victory contributed to it.
At first the old tribal exclusiveness prevailed, and people who came later into Rome were treated as unequal to those who long had a right to the soil.
When the lord became a tribal chief or king, the royal vassals became the king's thegns, or represented the nobility of the realm.
But it appears that many generations will pass before their tribal life is entirely absorbed into a common democracy.
In the beginning thistribal chief holds unlimited sway over all of his subjects.
We find combined in the political representation the ideas of tribal unity and individuality, or at least family independence.
The feudal system was built upon predatory tribal warfare, where possession was determined by might to have and to hold.
Though there are evidences of religious group activities prior to formal tribal life, it may be stated in general that the first permanent organization was on a family or ethnic basis.
After races had reached a stage of permanent historical records, or had even handed down traditions from generation to generation, there are evidences of family life and tribal or national achievements.
But returning to the tribal life, we find that the houses were of the rudest kind, made of undressed lumber or logs, with a hole in the roof for the smoke to pass out, with but one door and sometimes no window.
As the tribes federated, there was a tendency to make the assemblies more general, and thus the family exclusiveness tended to give way in favor of the development of the individual as a member of the tribal state.
The religious life of the early Germans was tribal rather than personal or of the simple family.
The old Illyrian population was rapidly absorbed or expelled, its Latin institutions being replaced by the autonomous tribal divisions, or Zupanates, of the Slavs.
The tribal burh was protected by an earthen wall, and a general obligation to build and maintain burhs at the royal command was enforced by Anglo-Saxon law.
They appear to have no collective tribal name for themselves.
All this in turn seems to support the interpretation that the band circle system is merely a conventionalized scheme of tribal government.
The names of Blackfoot bands are not animal terms but characterizations in no wise different from tribal names.
The main function of the tribal chief was to call councils, he having some discretion as to who should be invited.
In tribal assemblies, the head men of the bands usually look to one of these as spokesman, and speak of him as their chief.
What may be termed the conventional band system consists in a scheme for the tribal group designated as a band circle.
That the camp circle, or band circle, is a special type of tribal political organization in this area seems obvious.
Even in summer they would often camp in two or three bodies, each one under the leadership of some able-bodied band chief, coming together for the sun dance at which time only the whole tribal government was in existence.
We have noted that among the Blackfoot the tribal governments are so associated with the band circles that they exist only potentially until the camps are formed; at other times each band is a law unto itself.
On the other hand, some of the translated names for Gros Ventre bands as stated by Kroeber are identical in meaning with some of those found among the several tribal divisions of the Blackfoot.
As we have no data on this point it must pass, though we see no reason why some of the band names may not be older than the tribal divisions.
It was not one of the frequently used trails of the Monitaya people, but a mere picada, or hunter's track; yet even this had its pitfalls to guard the tribal house.
A number of the warriors looked sourly at Rand, whose face still bore the Red Bone tribal streaks which now, to Mayoruna minds, was the insignia of the enemy.
If he were alive like other men he would not have those marks on his body, but would wear only the tribal face paint.
Within the tribal house the adventurers proceeded to the central space where burned the chief's fire.
The Raposa whom we seek is known to the men of Monitaya, but he never has come here to the tribal houses.
Hunters came in, bearing birds or beasts which were placed before the tribal ruler for inspection and approval.
Two bigtribal houses, each considerably larger than the one of Suba, rose pompously in a wide cleared space beside the stream.
Even now their bodies were being collected for immediate transportation into the forest, where, in accordance with the tribal custom, they would be burned.
From within the tribal house sounded the monotonous voice of Yuara.
She said the raiders took her and the other girls to the big man with the black beard, who waited at a safe place a day's march from the tribal house.
Followed by the rescued and the rescuers, he then stalked into the tribal house and to his usual place, where he commanded that food be brought.
Behind this bulwark of tribalmight huddled the women and children, staring wide-eyed.
Looking around the wide room and remembering the big half circle of Indians who had stood outside, the two ex-officers estimated that in this tribal house and its twin dwelt seven hundred people.
Pedro, with a grim smile, turned with him toward thetribal houses.
This is preposterous--the heir to the tribal rights is Goronwy, the cousin of Pabo.
This is tribal land, and it so chances that the head of the tribe has been for some time--how long I know not--an ecclesiastic.
In a word, tribal ownership could have been displaced by landlordism through the same methods that have been used everywhere by the powerful, the ambitious, and the greedy against the weak, the indifferent, and the upright.
How the Change Probably Took Place The change fromtribal to private landownership could have occurred in a great variety of ways.
Nevertheless, it is probable that tribal ownership was the prevailing form of land tenure so long as people remained mainly in pastoral conditions.
It is quite possible that those among them that had passed through the hunting and fishing or the pastoral stage of existence, had practised tribal or common ownership during the earlier portion of their agricultural life.
Tribal or group ownership was, however, in vogue, especially among those groups that were in control of the better grounds or streams.
That half of these castles are ruined is not to be wondered at, considering that they are mud-built, and that tribal disputes and invasions are interminable.
The government in a country cursed by the tribal system must in the very nature of things be despotic: lawless tribes need the tyrant's hand of iron.
The vicus is here evidently a smaller tribal subdivision of the pagus, just as the Welsh trev was of the 'cymwd,' and not necessarily a village in the modern sense.
The tribal household with equality within it among brothers, first cousins, and second cousins, 193.
The two tribal systems were not working themselves out, so to speak, on the same lines.
So far as the Welsh tribal system is concerned, it is quite clear that whatever had been the influence upon it of direct Roman imperial rule and early Christianity, it submitted to a second and fresh influence in the tenth century.
These were obviously the main features of an earlier stage of the tribal system than we have seen in Wales.
On rolls of birch bark or the skins of animals they wrote messages, hunting stories, and songs, and even preserved tribal annals extending over a century.
Even when the invaders settled peaceably in the empire, they took possession of the land and set up their own tribal governments in place of the Roman.
As the one was developed by and adapted to personal needs, so the other was developed by and adapted to the manifold requirements of family or tribal life, which, from the first, was inseparable from the life of the individual.
The purpose was to break up the tribal organization which had stood so greatly in the way of the beneficent purposes of the government, and to convert each Indian into an individual citizen of the United States.
IV'-1] In attempting the classification of Californian tongues, no little difficulty arises from the ambiguity of tribal names.
In Honduras there is a long list of tribal names, to each of which is attributed a distinct tongue.
When we go higher, to the tribal relation of man, we find the same blind resentment.
Direction is gauged from where the Tribal Agong hangs--I will show you that after supper.
The immense rock, whose fracture and fall had precipitated the slide, lay directly under the Tribal Agong, at which the Hillmen were staring up, dumfounded.
In the afternoon he continued his study of tribal customs.
They are saying that the Tribal Agong can never be sounded again--without the platform they can't reach it.
I will that when she finds a stronger tree upon which to fasten--the Tribal Agong shall be rung for her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tribal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clannish; family; genetic; lineal; national; native; phylogenetic
