The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-02-08

modus operandl by winch the aLs;k<< men has been accomplished ala lhe 1 of the past became the 6eds of the ful>': this VIII explain ~hy all of ihs fis>t z1 divinities were mooeled after xaf ca these were then the only human usz42 And we can also understand EbY 4 mitive Gods were androphagi; slia3 cause the men out of whom they s.s ssructed, and by whom they wsa
 shipped were cannibals. IL nox 4 clear how the perfume of flower @ dlewood, and tne smell of fragrant z smoke of narcotic plants, enjoyed a
 iuxuries in the days of Buda, Dy nlss
 rank, stIll continue to be offered aud
 before the images of those who in ias od were admitted to the Par Etheon.
 as the Americans have no Jsps4 should honor Dr. Franklin with sI4 and thus constitute him our God 3
 der and Lightning. ve certainly Hs4
 ship him with galyanic baltery,e d electric contrivance. We have ho the chronological beginning of the
 cannibsl divinity. history only lse slow decline from q point four As years ago to the conquest O. Aezia1 year 1520, where this dreadful worsa4 iy disappeared from the face of l& and has nowhere since been revived
 tionai institution. It is highly m that cannibai worship was exle1as ward through very long period1 ( before the rise os un-worshlp, f0r q
 ter impiies a radical improvement, condition of the human mind, for H
 worship is comprehended benesoIe1 ciprocity and uuliiy, which. the -z;z
 savage mind could Lot grasp. kt4 4 seem, however, that Sun-worsllip asz or abolished the cannibal worship, 4 simply new feature added to the< man began to exhibit new traits. q with the old, and as men became ne> tie, and their sphere cf action dls1 some would be admitted to spot51
 benevolent benefactors of their felioz hence, frvm this time forward, the p&
 would be supplied with mixture olI
 olent and benevolent diyinities, a4
 out of the beneficent virtues arose sud factors of our race as the Hindooo c and Lachsmee. The (;reeclzn Cer Saturn. The Mexican Tloioc and Q The Peruvian Nance Capzc a1d D Oilla- By glance over the classi>
 will be seen that every celestial HN
 is in conformity with Its terrestEial disl--social eustUm-that tbs zso4
 chef always reigns supreme over ibsI and benevolent, as we see Jupiter his own father Saturn, and uss4 throne, kick him out of the kin<
 heaven, aud superintend the msnz to suit himself. In this age, howeF<
 nations oniy worshipped the benevo8 abandoned the evil disiaities whst stigmatjzed as devils. Some worsb4
 as yet such, while others refusing . them any longer seat in the k1e&
 heaven, have kicked them out sad e4
 them to ignoble quarters.
 Having shown that dreams. to 4
 ing of clairvoyance and somnarn bul1
 th. imagination of the human mi5
 narcotlcs, insanity, or the abcrstH
 duced by disease, are quite suifiei1 count for ghost-faith and witch-fait5s
 all savage tribes; in which it app~
 the first divinities were the spontania
 ductions of savage hunsnity atfs6
 disturbing influences. Ne have s3
 the primitive Gods arose out
 apotheosis of cannsbal chiefs, and ID they were cannibalistic relentless e
 bly cruel. The Gods, or ghosts of z parted simply retained the charaeH that marked their career while is ~ These Gods or ghosss required s
 same fiattery, humiliations aud serp formapces which they exseted of t9 rims, while they were living cannibals
 As the lapse of great periods
 mark slow but constant improves the character of the heatben Gods, provement has ever been hipdmo& ling follower in the cot-prints of
 tion- It appears that when maa
 gentle in his nature and no longer ~
 in burning his fello~-man, that D could dispense with this barbecue, when man became pastoral, living ezs ly on noeks and herds that his God<< bovine spicures; and when the pesE blncd the adyanfaOea of nasforal.