This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...meaning. For surely in the search for a Son, who is at once the Child of the Father of Heaven and the promise of Life unto Men, whose heralds are the Morning Star and the Winged Messenger of Heaven, whose coming is with gift of Peace and Joy and widening human Fellowship, --surely in all this we have a shining image, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...meaning. For surely in the search for a Son, who is at once the Child of the Father of Heaven and the promise of Life unto Men, whose heralds are the Morning Star and the Winged Messenger of Heaven, whose coming is with gift of Peace and Joy and widening human Fellowship, --surely in all this we have a shining image, not of the Old, but of the Christian dispensation. It is not to be understood that we credit the Pawnee with this spiritual meaning. We cannot even credit him with a pure and exalted religion, for certain of his rites were of the darkest of heathendom. But in this ceremony of the Hako, singularly pure and exalted, we do find so much that is common to the best in all religion that it cannot but bring the Indian closer to the White if once we permit it to command our sympathies. v. It is with a sense of the larger meaning underlying the symbols of the Indian rites, with a feeling that the Hako is not merely a Pawnee ceremony but a form of the universal Mystery of Life, that I have undertaken to give a poetical interpretation of it. My purpose in doing so is twofold. First, I wish to present thought common to Indian and white man in a form which may prove attractive apart from any merely anthropological interest, and in a form which will emphasize resemblances and sympathies of ideas of the two races. For this reason I have avoided the use of Indian names, such as Tirawa, H'Uraru, Kawas, choosing rather their English equivalents, --and I believe that the connotations of the English expressions, "Father of Heaven" and "Mother Earth," and the symbolism of the Eagle as the King of Birds, is not far removed from the truth of the Indian conceptions. Second, there have been many efforts to stimulate an "American art" by use o...
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