ANIMISTIC SACRIFICE    祭自然神

SACRIFICE to DEITIES of NATURE
Old Chinese Criteria
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Modern Chinese Criteria
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Hypernym
  • SACRIFICE　RITUAL in the form of GIVING gifts to DEITIES. (anc: 14/0, child: 4)
  • RITUAL　TYPICALLY COMPLEX SHOULD:obligatory PUBLIC CUSTOM. (anc: 13/0, child: 4)
  • CUSTOM　REPEATED ACT CONFORMING to what is a COMMON RULE in one's GROUP. (anc: 12/0, child: 4)
  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 1.315

    ANIMISMUS

  • Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology ( BARNARD AND SPENCER 2002) p.

    • Words (5 items)

    望  wàng OC: maŋs MC: mi̯ɐŋ
    望  (wáng) OC: maŋ MC: mi̯ɐŋ 6 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabactname of a sacrifice to the gods of mountains and rivers (SHU)
    • nabactthe wàng sacrificeCH
    • viactcarry out the wa4ng sacrifice to the gods of mountains and rivers
    • vtoNperform the Wàng sacrifice for/to NTW
    社  shè OC: ɡljaʔ MC: dʑɣɛ 6 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabactsacrifice to the spirits of the earth
    • viactconduct the shè-sacrifice, sacrifice at the altar of the land
    伯  bó OC: praaɡ MC: pɣɛk 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • viactsacrifice to the horse god
    宜  yí OC: ŋɡral MC: ŋiɛ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • viactto sacrifice to the god of soil (LIJI)
    • vt+prep+Nsacrifice to N
    祠  cí OC: sɢlɯ MC: zɨ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nspring sacrifice at which one prays for good harvest from the spirits after having sown for the year