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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
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his backare tied to the rope at one end of the horizontal bamboo, andthe rope at the other end is held by several men, who, draw-ing it down, raise up the end on which the man swings, andby their running round with the rope the machine is turned.In swinging, the man describes a circle of about thirty feetin diameter. Voluntary suicide is considered an act of great merit, andin many parts of India the people are guilty of infanticideby drowning their children in the Ganges, as a pious offer-ing to the goddess. The custom of widows throwing them-selves, or being placed, upon the pyre where the bodies oftheir husbands were about to be burned, is enforced by thelast of three particular duties of a wife toward her husband,as laid down in the Yegas, viz. : To die when her husbandleaves the world. THE USTCAEISTATIONS OF VISHjSTU. The Hindoos believe that Yishnu has already metamor-phosed himself nine times in this world, and is to undergo atenth transformation. These metamorphoses comprehend
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\1K\V OF HINDOO TEMPLE, BOM I INCARNATIONS OF VISHNU. 139 all the mystery of the Indian theology. He first assumedthe shape of a fish, in order to search for the Yedam at thebottom of the sea, whither it had been carried by an evilgenius who had forced it away from the Deutas. Vishnu, atthe urgent request of the Deutas, plunged into the sea,killed this evil genius, and returned with the Vedam, whichhe found in a shell. The second metamorphosis of Vishnu was into a tortoise.One day the sea being elated with pride, presumed to givean insolent account of its power and riches. Brahma, ac-companied with certain gods, was ordered to punish this ele-ment for its insolence ; accordingly, they took up the moun-tain of Merupa, which is all of gold, and placed it in themidst of the sea ; they wound the serpent Signag, or Scissia,as the Brahmins call it, several times round this mountain ;then using this serpent as a cable, they lifted up tin* moun-tain, and afterwards let it fall again, until th

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