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Group No. 176


Letter

V. Religion

Group No.

V0 – V99

Group name

Religious services

Description

V0. Religious services. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Norwegian: Solheim 22; Jewish: *Neuman.
V1.1.1. Worship of one god. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V1.2.4. Worship of angels. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V1.4. Worship of heavenly bodies. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V1.4.2. Worship of the sun. (Cf. A220.) Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 12.
 
V1.4.3. Worship of moon. (Cf. A240.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
V1.4.4. Worship of stars. (Cf. A250.) Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
V1.6.3. Worship of fire. (Cf. A493.) Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 202c; Penzer III 160; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V1.7.1. Sacred tree. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 611a; *Fb “træ” III 866a; Wimberly 156; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
V1.7.1.1. Sacred oak. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
V1.8. Worship of animals. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 28a; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V1.8.1.1. Bull worship. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V1.8.3. Dog worship. Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 167b; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Werner 422.
 
V1.8.6. Serpent worship. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 539a; *Penzer III 142; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V1.8.7. Bird worship. (Cf. A132.6.1.) Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 313f.
 
V1.8.8. Dragon worship. Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 103f.
 
V1.8.9. Lion worship. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V1.8.10. Ass worship. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V1.10. Worship of fetish. (Cf. D1274.) *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 200a; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 96.
 
V1.11. Worship of idols. (Cf. Q558.12, V11.10.) Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V1.11.1. Worship of golden calf. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V1.11.2. Worship of stone idols. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V10. Religious sacrifices. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 511b; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 19 – 54, 496 – 547; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 329; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V11.7. Sacrifice to animal. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V11.9. Sacrifice to deity. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V11.9. Sacrifice to deity. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V11.10. Sacrifice to idols. (Cf. V1.11.) Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V12.4. Animals as sacrifice. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
V12.4.3. Pig as sacrifice. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 218 No. 167.
 
V12.4.4. Ox (bull) as sacrifice. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg: Greek: Homer passim; Jewish: Neuman.
 
V12.4.4.2. Calf as sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V12.4.5. Goat as sacrifice. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: Neuman.
 
V12.4.6. Sheep (ram) as sacrifice. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Jewish: Neuman.
 
V12.4.8. Ass as sacrifice. *Krappe Classical Philology XLII (1947) 223 – 34; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V12.4.11. Bird as sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V12.10. Incense as sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V14. Sacrifice must be without blemish. Greek: Homer passim; Jewish: Neuman.
 
V16. Sacrifice at religious festivals. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V16.1. Sacrifices at Passover. Jewish: Moreno Esdras, *Neuman.
 
V17.2. Sacrifice after committing a sin. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V17.8. Sacrifice at edification of temple. (Cf. V12.4.0.1.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
V17.9. Sacrifice by women at childbirth. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V18. Ceremony of sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V19.1. Rising smoke as sign of acceptance of sacrifice. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V20. Confession of sins. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 133b; *De Vooys Middelnederlandse Legenden en Exempelen (Den Haag, 1926) 241ff.; *R. Pettazzoni La confessione dei peccati (Bologna, 1929); Jewish: *Neuman; Tahiti: Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 143.
 
V50. Prayer. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 470a; Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V51. Learning to pray. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V52.3. Prayer before battle brings victory. Scala Celi 151b No. 833; Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V57.3. Prayer on special occasions. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V58.4. Handwashing before prayer. Greek: Homer passim; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V58.5. Prayer shawl. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V68.4.1. Dead not to be buried naked. Jewish: Neuman.
 
V70. Religious feasts and fasts. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 198; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V71. Sabbath. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 509c; Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Moreno Esdras (V71.2.), *Neuman.
 
V71.1.1. Manna does not descend on Sabbath. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V71.3. Various events, from creation to Resurrection, that occurred on Sabbath. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
 
V73. Fasts. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V75.1. Passover. Jewish: Moreno Esdras, *Neuman.
 
V81. Baptism. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 61c; Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 337, O‘Suilleabhain 128; Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V82. Circumcision. (Cf. F81.3.) *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 126c; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V84. Excommunication. *Encyc. Rel. Ethics Index 193b; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V96. Ritual bathing. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
V97. Study of Tora as religious service. Jewish: *Neuman.

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