. The mythology of all races. EARLY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS 51 more and more lost sight of among the multitude of gods cre-ated in the likeness of man and other living creatures. Highethical precepts relating to Heaven were submerged in the ris-ing tide of nature worship. The Emperor Shun sacrificed to the Liu Tsung or Six Hon-oured Ones. Legge suggests that In going to worship thehills and rivers and the hosts of spirits, he must have supposedthere were certain tutelary beings who presided over the moreconspicuous objects of nature and its various processes. Theywere under God and could do nothing
. The mythology of all races. EARLY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS 51 more and more lost sight of among the multitude of gods cre-ated in the likeness of man and other living creatures. Highethical precepts relating to Heaven were submerged in the ris-ing tide of nature worship. The Emperor Shun sacrificed to the Liu Tsung or Six Hon-oured Ones. Legge suggests that In going to worship thehills and rivers and the hosts of spirits, he must have supposedthere were certain tutelary beings who presided over the moreconspicuous objects of nature and its various processes. Theywere under God and could do nothing except as they were per-mitted and empowered by himj but the worship of them . .paved the way for the pantheism which enters largely into thebelief of the Chinese at the present time, and of which we findone of the earliest steps in the practice, which commenced withthe Chow dynasty, of not only using the term Heaven as syno-nym for God, but using also the combination Heaven andEarth. These Six Honoured Ones have been vario
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