Their country was, primitively, much larger, and was not an island; but a terrible flood inundated the land, leaving only discovered the tops of the mountains. This happened under the following circumstances: A rich man, called Toja, lost by a sudden death his young- est son, whose mother had died in giving him birth. Not to part from the dear remains, he put them into a large pumpkin. After some time he took off the lid, and saw, to his dismay, that the pumpkin was filled with green- ish water, in which a multitude of fishes and aquatic monsters were swimming about. In his terror he had recourse to his friends, and deliberated with them what was to be done. Meanwhile his other children took the pumpkin in their midst to have a look at the sea which, they had heard, was hidden in it. When they saw their father returning from his call, conscious of punish- able inquisitiveness, they put the pumpkin roughly on the ground and ran away. The funereal vessel, thus carelessly handled, got a' rent, and hence the waters of the sea flowed, without intermission, night and day, until all lower parts of the earth were covered, and the moun- tain-tops alone protruded from the universal ocean. Those tops became islands and the abode of the surviv- ing few. The sun and moon sent to Quisqueja as their representatives two other gcds, Tokahuna and Temno, the supreme rulers. Other superior beings followed, and were all, more or less, solemnly worshipped. Images of stone and of clay were made of them, and decorated the great temple and the interior of the huts. These gods were thankful for the worship they received, and in re- turn granted the pious people successful fishing and hunting, victory in battle (their images were fastened in battle with a string to the forehead of the combat- ants), plentiful crops, rain or sunshine, as circumstances required. The women were blessed with happy child- beds and the girls with pleasant husbands. A great festival was solemnized every year in honor of all these gods. The cacique on that occasion appeared with a drum made of the trunk of a hollow tree, which he beat unremittingly. The whole township followed him to the temple, where the priests received every coming crowd with tremendous shouts, and took possession of the offerings. The latter consisted of thin flour cakes, which were broken in the presence of the god, and small portions of them given back to the heads of the fami- lies. Those little slices were carefully preserved through the whole year. A general dance followed. It was at this solemn occasion that most of the matrimonial offers and arrangements took place. All traces of this ancient pagan worship were destroyed by the fanatical Span- iards, and the small Indian people was exterminated. — Vollmer, Wbrterb. d. Mythol. s. v.
Quisshion (pulvinar, .cussinus, culcitrum), a cush- ion, usually of velvet, and stuffed with wool or horse-
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hair, for the service-book on the south side of the altar, appears in Henry VFs Book of the Hours, and was used by bishop Andrewes. In the former it is on the south side, in the latter on the north. Albertis mentions the wooden desk, plated (legile), as a modern substitute. The book was first set on the right side and afterwards moved to the left side of the altar at mass.— Walcott, Sacred A rclueol. s. v.
Quistorp, a family of Christian theologians, of whom we mention the following:
1. Berxhard Fr., was born at Rostock, April 11, 1718. In 1753 he was made superintendent, in 1766 doctor and professor of theology, in 1779 general superintendent, and afterwards chancellor and curator of the University of Greifswalde, where he died, Jan. 4. 1788. He wrote, Dissertatio Epist. de A theismo Benedicts de Sjrinoza (Ros- tock, 1743) : — Diss.Epist.de Collatione Librorum S,-rij>- turce Sacrce in Interpretation! .s'. .s'. hand Tnjusta (ibid. 1736): — Disp. Exegetico - dogmatica eaque Inaug. de Judceis Corde Compunctis (ibid. 1749) : — Ob die A Itvater vor und nach der Sundfluth, haben schreiben lednnen? Disp, de Notione Filiorum et Filiarum Dei (ibid. 1751) : — Disp. de Adoptione Ecelesiastica V. T. (ibid. 1755) : — • ()b, cite die sogenannte grieehische Uebersetzung der sieb- zig Dolmetscher von der Bibel des A . T. zu Stands ge- hommen, schon eine grieehische Uebersetzung der ftimf Biicher Moses vorhanden geivesen sei / (ibid. 1750) : — Num Michalis Archangeli cum Diabolide Corpore Mosis Disceptatio Fabula siti (Greifswalde, 1770) : — De An- gelas Dei in Legislatione Sinaitica Ministris, Gal. Hi, 19 (ibid. 1771) :—I)isp. de *H m33 H^'2 "P3 STTin 0 abs. "Il-Ppbn. reperto 2 Chron. xxxiv, 14, 15, et 2 Kings xii,8 (ibid. 1771):— De Triplici Ckristi Officio (ibid. 1784). See Fiirst, Bibl. Judaica, iii, 124 sq. ; Winer, Theol. Ilandbuch, p. 430, 719.
2. Johann (1), was born at Rostock, Aug. 18, 1584. Having completed his studies at his native place and at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, he travelled through Hol- land, Brabant, and Flanders, and after his return, in 1G15, he became professor in his native city. In 1616 he was made doctor of theology, in 1645 he was called as pastor and superintendent of St. Jacobi, and died at Dobran, May 2, 1648. He wrote, Annotationes in Omnes Libros Biblieos (Frankfort, 1698) -.—Comment. in Omnes Epp. Pauli: — Castigatio Hebraorum, etc. See Fiirst, Bibl. Judaica, iii, 125; Jocher, Allgcm. Ge- lehrten-Lexikon, s. v.