Serpent Worship and Other Essays
by C. Staniland Wake
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wake, C. Staniland (Charles Staniland), 1835-1910
- Title
- Serpent-Worship, and Other Essays, with a Chapter on Totemism
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
- Subject
- Serpent worship
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 57150
- Release Date
- May 13, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SERPENT-WORSHIP, AND OTHER ESSAYS WITH A CHAPTER ON TOTEMISM
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.CHAPTER I. RIVERS OF LIFE.
- 4.CHAPTER II. PHALLISM IN ANCIENT RELIGIONS.
- 5.CHAPTER III. THE ORIGIN OF SERPENT-WORSHIP.
- 6.CHAPTER IV. THE ADAMITES.
- 7.CHAPTER V. THE DESCENDANTS OF CAIN.
- 8.CHAPTER VI. SACRED PROSTITUTION.
- 9.CHAPTER VII. MARRIAGE AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLES.
- 10.CHAPTER VIII. MARRIAGE BY CAPTURE.
- 11.CHAPTER IX. DEVELOPMENT OF THE “FAMILY.”
- 12.CHAPTER X. THE SOCIAL POSITION OF WOMAN AS AFFECTED BY “CIVILISATION.”
- 13.CHAPTER XI. SPIRITISM AND MODERN SPIRITUALISM.
- 14.CHAPTER XII. TOTEMS AND TOTEMISM.
- 15.CHAPTER XIII. MAN AND THE APE.
- 16.Untitled
- 17.FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's Notes
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