Note 171 — LECTURE IV. Primitive Religious Expression: In the Object.
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The urn or vase was, in classical antiquity, the emblem of the fecundating waters (Guigniaut, Religions de l’Antiquité, tom. i., p. 509). Vases full of water were interred with the dead in Peru to symbolise the life beyond. Meyen, Die Ureinwohner von Peru, p. 29.