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FEBRUARY, 1896.]
(1)
(2)
(3)
(1)
(2)
(3)
)
m.
f.
(m.
(
f.
m.
زنداو کات) و گرت . ) -
gaya-ke كيك
f.
m.
)
f.
m.
.
SPIRIT BASIS OF BELIEF AND CUSTOM.
m.
Sg.
(f.
90(96 کاس) 8-86 گوس
گیس
گو
gaya-s
79. Aorist.
gau
25 (Mp. 4) pay
(gor۸ گیات) وهو كبرت )
كييك
gayeyas
(gays گیس) gays كيوس
ga كييس
80. Pluperfoot.33
gayeyek
(کاور گیار) مومو بور )
gayeyzad كييه
گی
کیه
Pl.
gayi
گئی
گریه
gayi
ga-val or gav
gayi-va or gayav
دودو گی
کیه
gayi
gayei
gayyey
gayeet or gayee گیوه
gayayings گیره
گیی
gaysi
Jayyey33
35
(To be continued.)
NOTES ON THE SPIRIT BASIS OF BELIEF AND CUSTOM. BY J. M. CAMPBELL, C.LE., I.C.S. (Continued from Vol. XXIV. page 356.)
Noise and Music. Noise, the beating of drums, the rattling of gourds, the clashing of metal plates, restores to consciousness or life one who is in a swoon. Swoons are due to the oppressive attacks of evil spirits. Therefore evil spirits are afraid of noise and music. Again, two of the leading experiences of the early life are that noise scares wild beasts and thievish birds, and therefore spirits; for, to the early man, his risks from wild beasts and his losses from birds are mainly magical, the doings of evil spirits sent into the animals by some hostile witch or sorcerer. As with other scarers the dualism that makes the scarer also the home appears in noise. It appears still more clearly in the disciplined or regulated noise which is known as music, Noise scares, but noise, or at least music, also inspirits. All great spirittimes, whether the birth, sickness, marriage or death of the individual; the beginnings and endings of enterprise and endeavour, as foundation-layings and house-warmings; the changes of the seasons which are mainly the birth, maturity, and death of the sun and moon; the sudden and notable sickness of the sun and moon in eclipses; the battle-field; the guarding of the guardian, whether in health-drinking, triumphs, or temple ritual: all are times of noise. And the ground-object of all these various noises of humanity is the scaring of evil influences. In many cases the foundation is hid by a refined overlayer: the temple god-guarding outery becomes the hymn of praise or the call to prayer. Again the dual experience that noise inspirits as well as scares gains in importance with the advance of man. bagpipe sets the Scottish Highlander, the Dhêda's dram sets the West Indian Bharwar, dancing. It is neither inducement nor persuasion. It is the ancestral spirits gathering to the well-known
At festive times the
The forms in parenthesis are those of Ns. [gos, however, means "we went to him"].
31 These are the only forms which are vocalized in Mp. [Gayos also means "we had been to him," and gayék "we had been to them."] 32 No form vocalized in Mp.
رکیبیره, گیی .Mp 33 گیریه
