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CONCERNING LAPLAND,
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SECTION XXIV.
Of the Sacrifices offered by the Laplanders to their Deitics.
ITH refpeé to the deities, of which the attributes and
names are contained in the preceding feétion, as well as
the rites and ceremontes obferved in their worfhip, the miffionary
Leems remarks, that he found the Laplanders to vary in different
parts, and on that account has contented himfelf with fetting
down what he was able to afcertain from his own perfonal obfer-
yation, or could derive from the beft information. Of his com+
munications upon thefe fubjects, we have endeavoured to give our
readers a fhort abftraét. The whole may ferve to-eftablifh a truth,
that man unenlightened by the truths of a divine revelation, is led
to pay his adoration to fenfible objects, either as they promote his
happinefs or interrupt his quiet. ‘Thus the fun, thunder, moun-
tains, lakes, the changes of the feafons, &c. become deities which
he ftrives to propitiate by fuch ceremonies as he fuppofes in the
fimplicity of his mind are moft likely to anfwer that purpofe ;
which ceremonies, as he is wholly intent upon the end he pro-
pofes to himfelf to attain by means of them, appear to him very
ferious and important.
Rein-deer, fheep, and now and then a feal, were the animals
chiefly
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