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Title: What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Rawson, Albert L. (Albert Leighton), 1829-1902 Hagar, George J. (George Jotham), 1847-1921
Subjects: Religions
Publisher: New York, Gay Brothers & company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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Christian missionaries from the United Statesreached the Hawaiian Islands in 1820. King KamehamehaII had lust abolished idolatry. He and his successor wereverv friendly to the early missions, and, consequently, theyachieved a notable success. Up to the year 1869 the totalnumber of Protestant missionaries sent to the islands, clericaland lay, including their wives, was 156, and the cost of themissions had at that time amounted to $1,220,000. Up to1873 there had been 67,792 natives admitted to the Protest-ant churches, and the membership for that year was; 12,283.The Roman Catholic population of the islands in 18/2 was23 000 A French Catholic mission was established in Hono-lulu in 1827. An English Reformed Catholic mission wassent thither in 1862, and an Anglican Bishop to Hawaii wasappointed. For many years the native population ol tlieislands has been undergoing a rapid depletion, tne<causeof which forms one of the most interesting chapters in CnariesDarwins Origin of the Species,
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s p-4o N t>U CO W H toO ww ANCIENT MEXICAN DIVINITIES. 165 THE MEXICANS. The deities of the ancient Mexicans are said to have exceeded two thousand in number, who had their respectivetemples, ceremonies, and sacrifices. There was hardly astreet without its tutelary divinity, nor was there scar-el y adisease which had not its peculiar altar, to which the Mexi-cans flocked in order to be healed. Their principal deitywas Vitzliputzli, whom they considered the sovereign lordof all things, and creator of heaven and earth. The greatestgod after Vitzliputzli was the Sun. Another of their divini-ties was Tlaloch, whom some writers confound with Tesca-lipuca. But these were considered brothers, of equalstrength, and so similar in disposition, that the sovereignpower of war was divided between them. Tescalipuca was,however, more appropriately the god of penance, whom theMexicans invoked in seasons of adversity. The Mercuryand Plutus of the Mexicans, the former of whom was some-times called Q

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