. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations . l with theGreek Sophia and Logos. She is also the same asll. The Sama Vedha, for example, when speak-ing of the divine cause of creation, says, Heexperienced no bliss, being isolated — alone. Heardently desired a companion, and immcdiatoly thedesire was gratified. He caused his body to divide;and became male and female (see Fig. 44), theyunited, and human beings were made. Sacti isalways alluded to as Maya (delusion), and Prak-rite, or nature, who is one
. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations . l with theGreek Sophia and Logos. She is also the same asll. The Sama Vedha, for example, when speak-ing of the divine cause of creation, says, Heexperienced no bliss, being isolated — alone. Heardently desired a companion, and immcdiatoly thedesire was gratified. He caused his body to divide;and became male and female (see Fig. 44), theyunited, and human beings were made. Sacti isalways alluded to as Maya (delusion), and Prak-rite, or nature, who is one with Maya, because shebeguiles all beings.^ Having, as it were, sanctified the power by whichthe great father carried out his designs, a stylo ofworship was rendered to her tluit was supposed tobe adapted to her sex. She was addressed withthe most flattering and endearing epithets that mancould devise. Her worshippers vied with each other ^ Sec \<)tet on the ftahontnii, liy Hnrton, in Anthropoloffical Memoin(London, Trubncr, iWVj), toI. i. p. 82(). *** Sellon, in Anthropological Memoir$, vol i. and ii.■» Sellon. Op. < in the invention of lovely and powerful attributes;and there is not a single form of homage, addressedby the Papist to Mary, which has not been bestowedon the Sacti by her worshippers. The Sactas,her adorers, see in every woman an effigy of thegreat goddess; and, during worship, many dress upa Brahminical girl or woman with great splendour,and adorn her with jewels and garlands,—just as T 646 have seen, in Papal Clmrchcs, a wax or wooden imageof Mary decked. Mr. Sellon (from whose essays inthe Anthropological Memoirs I am drawing muchinformation) describes (vol. ii., p. 267), at consider-able length, the nature of the ceremonies, and how,from being reverent at first, they pass into a veritableorgy, the mystic merging into the real, into which itis unnecessary to follow him. Mr. Colebrooke (inthe Religion of the Hindoos, Williams and Norgate,Lond
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