| 释义 |
orenda|ɒˈrɛndə|
[Iroquoian.]
(See quots.)
1902J. N. B. Hewitt in Amer. Anthropologist IV. 33 (title) Orenda and a definition of religion. Ibid. 37 This subsumed magic power is called..manitowi by the Algonquian, pokunt by the Shoshonean, and orenda by the Iroquoian tribes. And it is suggested that the Iroquoian name for the potence in question, orenda, be adopted to designate it. 1911Encycl. Brit. XVII. 306/2 Everything in nature, and particularly all animate objects, have their orenda; so have gods and spirits... Orenda is above all the power of the medicine man. 1917Encycl. Relig. & Ethics IX. 556/1 The term orenda is, in fact, only one of a large group of terms, members of which are found in most, if not all, Indian languages, which have the same general meaning—invisible power or energy. 1920[see mana]. 1947C. S. Lewis Miracles xi. 100 It [sc. pantheism] may even be the most primitive of all religions, and the orenda of a savage tribe has been interpreted by some to be an ‘all-pervasive spirit’. |