Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru
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1. THE HIBBERT LECTURES, 1884.2. ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.3. LECTURE I. INTRODUCTION.—CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO. COMMON BASES OF CIVILIZATION AND RELIGION.4. LECTURE II. THE DEITIES AND MYTHS OF MEXICO.5. LECTURE III. THE SACRIFICES, SACERDOTAL AND MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS, ESCHATOLOGY AND COSMOGONY OF MEXICO.6. LECTURE IV. PERU.—ITS CIVILIZATION AND CONSTITUTION, THE LEGEND OF THE INCAS: THEIR POLICY AND HISTORY.7. LECTURE V. FALL OF THE INCAS.—PERUVIAN MYTHOLOGY, PRIESTHOOD.8. LECTURE VI. PERUVIAN CULTUS AND FESTIVALS.—MORALS AND THE FUTURE LIFE.—CONCLUSIONS.9. FOOTNOTES: