CONTENTS

PREFACE

ON THE WRITING OF A PRAYER OF PRAISE (Mexican)

TO THE CREATIVE GOD (Accadian)

APACHE PRAYER (American)

NAVAJO LITURGY (American)

ADDRESS TO SUPREME DEITY (Assyrian)

A PRAYER FOR THE DYING (Assyrian)

BABYLONIAN PRAYER FOR HEALTH PRAYER TO THE SUN (Chaldean)

MAGICAL INCANTATION (Chaldean)

CHINESE LITURGY

CHINESE PRAYER

PRAYER OF TRANSFORMATION INTO A LOTUS (Egyptian)

A PRAYER FOR PRESERVATION OF THE HEART (Egyptian)

HYMN TO AMUN-RA (Egyptian)

PRAYER OF THE SOWER (Finnish)

HYMN TO PANU (Finnish)

THE SALUTATION OF THE DAWN (Hindu)

PRAYER TO BUDDHA (Hindu)

HYMN TO AGNI (Hindu)

PRAYER OF THE GAMBLER (Hindu)

PRAYER TO KAMI-DANA (Japanese)

PRAYER OF THE SINGER (Mexican)

HYMN OF TLA-LOC (Mexican)

HYMN TO THE ALL-MOTHER (Mexican)

HYMN OF THE GOD OF FLOWERS (Mexican)

PRAYER TO THE MEXICAN GOD OF FIRE (Mexican)

THE PRAYER OF THE MAIZE (Mexican)

HYMN TO CIHUA-COATL (Mexican)

PRAYER TO THE GOD OF THIEVES (South Pacific Island)

INVOCATION TO ORMAZD (Persian)

MOHAMMEDAN PRAYER OF ADORATION (Persian)

AN INCA'S DEATH PRAYER (Peruvian)

HYMN TO THE UNKNOWN GOD (Peruvian)

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