. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ughts. edly characteristic of the Nigritians of our day. Religion.—The basis of the religion wasNigritian fetichism—the lowest kind of na-ture-worship. Upon this were ingrafted firstcosmic worship, mixed up with traces of pri-meval revelation as in Babylonia, and thena system of personifications of moral andintellectual abstractions. There were threeorders of gods—the eight great gods, thetwelve lesser, and the group
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ughts. edly characteristic of the Nigritians of our day. Religion.—The basis of the religion wasNigritian fetichism—the lowest kind of na-ture-worship. Upon this were ingrafted firstcosmic worship, mixed up with traces of pri-meval revelation as in Babylonia, and thena system of personifications of moral andintellectual abstractions. There were threeorders of gods—the eight great gods, thetwelve lesser, and the group of which Osiris, was worshiped under the form of an ox their pantheistic philosophy, they conceivednot of God as a person, but as an essencediffused throughout nature, and manifestedin infinite variety of form. Animate and in-animate things were parts of one nature, ofwhich the entirety was believed to be God;so that any one might be a manifestation ofthe divine presence, and deceased kings andheroes were often deified. The great doc-trines of the immortality of the soul, mansresponsibility, and future rewards and pun-ishments, were taught. It is remarkable that. A complete Egyptian Temple. or bull, was the chief. The gods of the firstand second order were but partially vener-ated. It was the third order of Osiris thatwas nationally recognized. Besides these,the Egyptians worshiped various animals,and even inanimate things, believing thattfejods dwelt in them1. For, according to1 Comp. Exod. viii., 26. circumcision is found among their most an-cient rites. The religious festivals were nu-merous, and often kept with great merry-making and license. Very much the samesort of a feast was that which the Israelitescelebrated when Aaron had made the goldencalf. The Israelites appear to have adopt-ed, for the most part, the Egyptian religion EGYPT 300 EGYPT during the oppression; and this golden calf,or rather steer, was copied from one of thesacred hulls. Government, Laws.
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