The Celtic Magazine
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ISBN13: 9780217070218
Paperback|9780217070218
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: armorial bearings on that occasion pretty much the same as we have already given it from another old manuscript history of the Mackenzies in our possession. He also gives the same account almost of the murder of Colin, who hada son, Kenneth, by MacMliathoiu's daughter; but the garrison in the castle, consisting mostly of Macraes and Macleunans, did so valiantly defend their young master's right that, maugre his opponents, they retained his possessions to him. To Colin, succeeded this Kenneth. . . . All the descendants of Kenneth were by the Highlanders called ifacChoinnich, taking the patronymic from MacMhathuin rather than from Colin, whom they esteemed a stranger. So much for the Colin Fitzgerald origin of the Clan Mackenzie. In the next number we shall dispose of it, and adduce reasons for adopting a native Gaelic descent. (To le Continued.) ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY AND MODERN SUPERSTITIONS. The Kev. Alex. Macguegok, M.A. Superstition may be defined to be certain false beliefs and practices not sanctioned by revealed religion. It is lamentable that mankind in all ages of the world have been prone to the most degrading superstitions. The enlightened ages of antiquity were no more exempted from them than the most ignorant. Wo know from the Bible how difficult it was to restrain the Jews from the most idolatrous and superstitious observances, and to confine them to the worship of the only living and true God. This remarkable tendency of the Hebrew nation was caused, in all likelihood, by their sojourning for the long period of four hundred years among the Egyptians, whose system of religion was a mass of idolatrous observances. They had a number of ideal gods, to whom they erected temples of prodigious size and architectural splendour, Their principal deities were Osiris ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217070218 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217070213 |
| Weight | 1.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.24 In |
| List Price | $33.59 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 556 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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