. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . Vessels fkom the Jau containing an Infants Bonesfound at Megiddo (see p. 70% From TM el-Mutesellim, p. 46 (Fig. 42). To face p. 71] FOUNDATION-SACRIFICES n child about ten years old, with two jars, a large and a small one, anda clay bowl, supported on a foot, all of particularly line It can scarcely be doubted that these are examples of foundation-sacrifices, of sacrifices offered at the foundation of a building,for the purpose of ensuring the stability of the structure and thewelfare of those about to occupy or use it. Traces of
. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . Vessels fkom the Jau containing an Infants Bonesfound at Megiddo (see p. 70% From TM el-Mutesellim, p. 46 (Fig. 42). To face p. 71] FOUNDATION-SACRIFICES n child about ten years old, with two jars, a large and a small one, anda clay bowl, supported on a foot, all of particularly line It can scarcely be doubted that these are examples of foundation-sacrifices, of sacrifices offered at the foundation of a building,for the purpose of ensuring the stability of the structure and thewelfare of those about to occupy or use it. Traces of this customare to be found in the legends or practices of people in the mostdifferent parts of the world, not only, for instance, in India, NewZealand, China, Japan, and Mexico, but also in Germany, Denmark,and our own country. Numerous examples have been collected byDr. Tylor in his Primitive Culture (i. 94-7), by Dr. Trumbull in hisThreshold Covenant (1890),pp. 45-57, and in an article on Kirkgrims,i. e. apparitions of animals supposed to
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