I know a lot of people who have been waiting for this book for many years. One Eternal Round is the 19th volume in The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, and is his magnum opus, the volume of materials he worked on for a very long time until the end of his life. The book [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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In connection with yesterday’s post about early Christian purification ordinances, isn’t it interesting that we find very similar practices in the new world, among those whose culture, beliefs, traditions, history, and religion seem so different to a superficial eye? The Hopi Native Americans have a vast array of rituals, ceremonies, customs, dances, rites, and sacred [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also tagged anointing, boyd petersen, ceremony, cornmeal, crow mother, flute, hugh nibley, indian, kachina, kiva, rituals, tribe
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March 13, 2008 – 11:04 am
Today a commenter on the site mentioned how I should include more parallels with the practices of the Masons, since that is plainly where the temple ordinances came from. And I would respond, did they? Did they really, so easily, come from the Masons? Can we dismiss Joseph as a prophet, seer, and revelator as [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also tagged ceremony, druzes, freemasons, hugh nibley, joseph smith, masonry, near east, ordinances, Practices, revelation, rites, rituals
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February 6, 2008 – 9:05 am
Hugh Nibley had a fascination with the Hopi Indian tribes of northeastern Arizona. He believed that the Hopi captured something about life that the rest of the world had missed. Their culture, traditions, and ceremonies were stable and permanent. They did not look to the conveniences of the day, and yet had still survived unhampered [...]
