Fetishes
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Also: fetishism, Fetishism.
Belief in relics is an outgrowth of the ancient fetish cult. 88:2.1-2
Confucius made a new fetish out of order and established a respect for ancestral conduct that is still venerated by the Chinese at present day 94:6.9
the doctrine of spirit possession is nothing more nor less than fetishism. 88:0.1
to protect them water holes, wells, trees, crops, and honey were considered fetishes 69:9.12
Fetishism ran through all the primitive cults from the earliest belief in sacred stones, through idolatry, cannibalism, and nature worship, to totemism. 88:3.1
fetishes made early market places secure against theft 69:4.3
fetishes were many times mere symbols of the real object of worship. 85:1.3
The technique of religious ritual passed from the forms of the primitive cult through fetishes to magic and miracles 90:0.1
A fetish bag, a medicine bag, was a pouch containing a reputable assortment of ghost-impregnated articles, and the medicine man of old never allowed his bag, the symbol of his power, to touch the ground. 88:3.3
When plants and fruits became fetishes, they were taboo as food. Apple was a fetish fruit. 88:1.3
When animals became fetishes, there ensued the taboos on eating the flesh of the fetish animal. Fetish animals were dogs, apes, monkeys, snakes, birds, pigs and cows. 88:1.4-5
In the Urantia Book
Examples
- The first fetishes were peculiarly marked pebbles, and “sacred stones” have ever since been sought by man. Certain days of the week were fetishes. Also the lucky numbers. (88:1.2,6)
- Saliva was a potent fetish. Parts of the human body were looked upon as potential fetishes, particularly the hair and nails. Hunchbacked and crippled children were regarded as fetishes; lunatics were believed to be moon-struck. 88:1.8-9
- There was only one factor of a tribal, racial, or national nature about the primitive and unorganized beliefs of the desert, and that was the peculiar and general respect which almost all Arabian tribes were willing to pay to a certain black stone fetish in a certain temple at Mecca. 95:7.5
- kings became fetish personalities and were inordinately feared, a special form of speech being adopted for court usage. 70:6.4-5
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Stone as witness 85:1.3 — Jos 24:27.
Where it appears
Fetishes is linked in 1 paragraph of the text.