This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ...an offering is made to effect the destruction of an enemy. " O goddess of horrid form! O Chandika! eat, drown such a one, my enemy, O consort of fire! Salutation to fire This is the enemy who has done me mischief, now personated by an animal: destroy him, OMahamara! Sphcng! Spheng! eat, devour!" Like that of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ...an offering is made to effect the destruction of an enemy. " O goddess of horrid form! O Chandika! eat, drown such a one, my enemy, O consort of fire! Salutation to fire This is the enemy who has done me mischief, now personated by an animal: destroy him, OMahamara! Sphcng! Spheng! eat, devour!" Like that of the Egyptian Tithrambo, the worship of Kali is connected with the phases of (he Moon. The rites of the Hindoo goddess were formerly celebrated monthly, and the darkest nights in the month were chosen for that purpose. At present her worshippers hold a festival to her honour on the last night of the decrease of the Moon, in the month Kartika, which is called the Syama, or black festival.f We have observed something analogous in the Egyptian rites of Hecate. Parvati, or Isi, as well as the Egyptian goddess, is in some manner related to the Moon. A crescent is painted on her forehead, and on that of her husband Isa, or Siva. Isa, in one of his forms, is expressly Ward on the Hindoo Mythology, vol. i. Asiatic Researches, vol. i. t Ward, ubi supra, vol. i. p.154. called the Moon, and his consort, Isi, is then Luna. The Moon, in the Hindoo mythology, is of two sexes. Chandra, or Deus Lunus, is the Moon in opposition to the Sun; Chandri, or Dea Luna, is the Moon in conjunction with him. In Egypt we have seen that in the month Phamenoth, Osiris was fabled to make his entrance into the Moon, though at other times the Moon was regarded as the visible appearance of Isis. But we are not accurately informed of the circmustances which distinguish Lunus from Luna, or of the precise relations of Isis and Osiris respecting the Moon. It is sufficient to trace a similar conversion in India and in Egypt. In Egypt the Moon was at certain times a maleficent...
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