The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-02-08


 sheen were atsent, hares were received Tn divine offering.
 The Mysho.ogies pay tribute 10 the in dustry and capacity of women and their su' perior refining and civilizing influence, as always foremost in the propigation of the arts of peace. and we are referred to | time when all the labors of the field and hardships of domestic toii rested upon the shoulders of the women prior to the sposheosis of the Grecisn Ceres This be nevolent Goddess instructed men to plow the soil, to plant and SOW, to reaf and gather the harvest, to thrash grain. to make flour and bread, to en close fields, to mark out the limits of eacf persons property, so as to preserve harmony | In the worship of Ceres, great improvement IS observed. for she accepted the offering o wine, milk and honey.
 | The Goddess Isis conferred the gifts of corn bread ard the division of property upon thu Egyptians. | The Hindoo Lachsmee Goddess of Abund ance who presided over the harvest, tangh them labor and agriculture.
 1 Centeat, the Goddess of tho Harvest ant Fertile Fields, was greatly beloved by th' Mexicans, because she repudiated humaI sacrifce, and was content with hsres ane doves, and to Cs,st-le-cue, the Mexican Flora, they offered baskets and boquets O flowers. To say nothing of elairvoyanc' ana sonambulism, the phenomenon of dream ing has in all ages been fruitful source O superstition, and will ever be, while peopl' misunderstood the laws that govern body mind and matter. Persons whose diet i inappropriate or irregular, are given ts dreaming. Dreams denote an abnorma coalition of body or mind, wherein tn, mind fails to find absolute rest, while tn, body sleeps; the striking peculiarity being that some of the mental perceptions ar' awakened or excited, while others are in s.ate of partial or perfect rest. Fear ssem to be one of the mental faculties most easily excited in dreams, and the frightful picture of dreams give man his first notion of Iiv ing supernatural beings, and out of whici arises his belief in ghosts, or the spirits O the aeparted, hence ghost-faith and witch faith are lhe spontanious productions O disturbed human nature, traces of whicl are found among all barbarian tribes.
 | When men were absolutely savage; witl no knowledge of the arts of peace: wheI mans subsistence depended wholeiy on tn, distraction of animal life, it is not strang, that this should be his sweetest pleasure When men knew no law but the right of tn, strong to dcvour the weak. and it is no strange that when men had no other occu patton but the slaughter of animals ant men, that the latter should be his most de lightful amusement. When they had ns knowledge of the culinary art except fs roast carcasses whole with a crude fire ii the open air, and the war captive formed tn, most delicious barbecue In this state o existence, the man who could bv his supe rior capacity distinguish himself for relent less cruelty, would become the leader, hero or war chief, and this is the first superiorit, that the savage acknowledges.
 Savage chiefs demand of war captives O, their victims purchased in trade the mos, unbounded flattery and servilc homage, and after the captive has been tortured he i, made to thank his master that he has been so kind as not to roast him and eat him The heather cannibal chiefs demanded of their victims every possible display of hu initiation by prostrations, gestures ana: me. nial supplicatlons, and as the cruel chief; were the first objects before which sa,sot humanity was made tG tremble with avfu submission; and as credit and honor are al. ways overdone and ex.ravaganfly represent. ed when bestowed by savages, when noted chlefs s fell m battle, or were roasted and eaten by their enemies, their deeds would bs magnined into superhuman wonders and the phenomena of dreams and s braln oewiidered by disease, to say notbinu otciairvoyance, somnambuIism. tremeps an phobius disturbances of the human mini are sufnclent to account for ghost-faith. TE i deep regrets that followed denarfed h.-s[ become exaggerated recollections in the;- - us'lonafy chronicles. out eff which arise tfs n;s.a paal'oms oI ghosf-hood which haunt tils .an a,nus s. ol tnoss who bewail their loss, and hn ,as .h shAcinng thoughts of the day, followed oy uae onesms of night bewiIder the brain anu nflng back the ghosts of the departed