under-sacerdotal

Updated: May 26, 2025

All nature is animated by good and evil spirits, to be dealt with like other natural advantages or difficulties, but not thought of as moral or spiritual guides. It is true that the Atharva often rises above this phase, for it consists not of simple folk-lore, but of folk-lore modified under-sacerdotal influence.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1