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- noun Any member of an
aboriginal hunter-gatherer tribe ofIndia , inhabiting thetributary states ofOrissa andSrikakulam .
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Examples
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Similarly the Kondwans apparently derive their name from the tract south of the Mahanadi which is named after the Khond tribe, and was formerly owned by them.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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The animal was torn in fragments, as the Khond victim was cut in pieces, in order that the worshippers might each secure a portion of the life-giving and fertilising influence of the god.
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The animal was torn in fragments, as the Khond victim was cut in pieces, in order that the worshippers might each secure a portion of the life-giving and fertilising influence of the god.
Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull 1922
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This later view of the Meriah as a victim rather than a divinity may perhaps have received undue emphasis from the European writers who have described the Khond religion.
Chapter 47. Lityerses. § 3. Human Sacrifices for the Crops 1922
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Both the Khond and the European customs are rain-charms.
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This later view of the Meriah as a victim rather than a divinity may perhaps have received undue emphasis from the European writers who have described the Khond religion.
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A man of the Panua tribe was once seen to load a Khond with curses, and finally to spit in his face, because the Khond had sold for a victim his own child, whom the Panua had wished to marry.
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In these Khond sacrifices the Meriahs are represented by our authorities as victims offered to propitiate the Earth Goddess.
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Once more the Khond custom of pouring water on the buried flesh of the victim is parallel to the European customs of pouring water on the personal representative of the corn-spirit or plunging him into a stream.
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The same custom of killing the representative of a god, of which strong traces appear in the Khond sacrifices, may perhaps be detected in some of the other human sacrifices described above.
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