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R E M ARKS 



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THE 



RELIGION 



ref;eived in this aflembly of the heavens after thek demife; and 



perhaps this idea is formed from the Tourooa or meeting, of the 



- flates of the nation, where only the higher ranks, of the nation 



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have a rieht to fit. The toutpus or lower fort of people meet after 



death at the taya-hoboo 



which I am unable 



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heard that any of thefe places was- 



be confidered 



ftate 



of punilhment 



The Tourooa-ferai feems to be a place of 



enjoyment and happinefs, in fome meafure fimilar to the Valhalla. 

 of the Northern nations,, where the heroes killed in battle met 

 at Odin's palace,, feafled upon the. meat of the boar Serimner, * 



and drank ale or mead out of the fkulls of their enemies.. 



The 



adiions of men do not feem to infl 



the leafl their, futu 



that 



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flate according to their dodrine :, but I am fully perfuaded, 



the people of t hefe iflands were frequently awed from committing, 



bad immoral a^iions by the fear of meriting the difpleafure and: 



the anger of the Gods y for when I difcourfed with them, upon, 

 various fubje(5ts, and in order to try their way of thinking andt 



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principles, afked them ^hy they did not kill their children or any 

 other perfons, they always replied the Gods would be angry:.. 



whea I continued to afk whether this anger or difpleafure would. 



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* See the Edda^ in various 



SeptmtrionaUs^ p, 149. fcq. 



Jo. George Kejjler's Antiiuitates Scleras 



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