CONTENTS.

ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.

LECTURE I. INTRODUCTION. CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO. COMMON BASES OF CIVILIZATION AND RELIGION.

LECTURE II. THE DEITIES AND MYTHS OF MEXICO.

LECTURE III. THE SACRIFICES, SACERDOTAL AND MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS, ESCHATOLOGY AND COSMOGONY OF MEXICO.

LECTURE IV. PERU. ITS CIVILIZATION AND CONSTITUTION, THE LEGEND OF THE INCAS: THEIR POLICY AND HISTORY.

LECTURE V. FALL OF THE INCAS. PERUVIAN MYTHOLOGY, PRIESTHOOD. I.

LECTURE VI. PERUVIAN CULTUS AND FESTIVALS. MORALS AND THE FUTURE LIFE. CONCLUSIONS.

FOOTNOTES:

THE HIBBERT LECTURES, 1884.

LECTURES

ON THE

ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF RELIGION

AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE

NATIVE RELIGIONS OF MEXICO
AND PERU.


DELIVERED AT OXFORD AND LONDON,

In APRIL and MAY, 1884.


By

ALBERT RÉVILLE, D.D.
PROFESSOR OF THE SCIENCE OF RELIGIONS AT THE COLLÈGE DE FRANCE.

Translated by PHILIP H. WICKSTEED, M.A.