And this, as I discover, is the nature and method of their vile faith.

They hold that the gods are each and several incarnate in some one particular human being.

This human being they worship and reverence with all ghostly respect as his incarnation.
And chiefly, above all, do they revere the great god Too-Keela-Keela, whose representative (may the Lord in Heaven forgive me for the same) I myself am at this present speaking.

Having thus, for my sins, attained to that impious honor.
"God save the king! Confound the Duke of York! To hell with all papists! "It is the fashion of this people to hold that their gods must always be strong and lusty.

For they argue to themselves thus: that the continuance of the rain must needs depend upon the vigor and subtlety of its Soul, the rain-god.