Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1903 - Animism |
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... hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the next child born to this recipient of the departed soul is animated by it , and takes the rank and name of the deceased.2 ...
... hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the next child born to this recipient of the departed soul is animated by it , and takes the rank and name of the deceased.2 ...
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... hands touching us ; and last evening , as it was his farewell , they gave us a special manifestation , un- asked for and unlooked for . He sitting at the right hand of me , a vacant chair opposite to him began moving , and , in answer ...
... hands touching us ; and last evening , as it was his farewell , they gave us a special manifestation , un- asked for and unlooked for . He sitting at the right hand of me , a vacant chair opposite to him began moving , and , in answer ...
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... hand , and how out of the three or four available answers some peoples adopted one , some another , some several at once . Primitive theologians had all the world before them where to choose their place of rest for the departed , and ...
... hand , and how out of the three or four available answers some peoples adopted one , some another , some several at once . Primitive theologians had all the world before them where to choose their place of rest for the departed , and ...
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... hand findeth to do , do it with thy might ; for there is no work , nor device , nor knowledge , nor wisdom , in Sheol , whither thou goest . ' Such thoughts of the life of the shades below did not disappear when , in the later years of ...
... hand findeth to do , do it with thy might ; for there is no work , nor device , nor knowledge , nor wisdom , in Sheol , whither thou goest . ' Such thoughts of the life of the shades below did not disappear when , in the later years of ...
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... p . 234 ; Coreal , ' Voi . aux Indes Occ . ' vol . i . p . 224 . 2 Rochefort , ' Iles Antilles , ' p . 430 . 3 ' Journ . Ind . Archip . ' vol . i . p . 325 . slain in battle.1 On the other hand , the thought INTERMEDIATE THEORY . 87.
... p . 234 ; Coreal , ' Voi . aux Indes Occ . ' vol . i . p . 224 . 2 Rochefort , ' Iles Antilles , ' p . 430 . 3 ' Journ . Ind . Archip . ' vol . i . p . 325 . slain in battle.1 On the other hand , the thought INTERMEDIATE THEORY . 87.
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Page 389 - I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.' ' I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats . . . Wash you, make you clean; put away
Page 78 - a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparell'd in celestial light, The glory and the
Page 376 - Through want of strength, thou strong and bright god, have I gone wrong; have mercy, almighty, have mercy! .... Whenever we men, O Varuna, commit an offence before the heavenly host, whenever we break the law through thoughtlessness, have mercy, almighty, have mercy!
Page 288 - O thou, that with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the God Of this new world.' It is no exaggeration to say, with Sir William Jones, that one
Page 98 - I have not done fraud to men. I have not changed the measures of the country. I have not injured the images of the gods. I have not taken scraps of the bandages of the dead. I have not committed adultery. I have not withheld milk from the mouths of sucklings. I have not hunted wild animals
Page 255 - at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern
Page 84 - all the great chiefs of the earth ; He maketh to rise up from their thrones, all the kings of the nations. All of them shall accost thee, and shall say unto thee : Art thou, even thou too, become weak as we ? Art thou made like unto us
Page 191 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.'* As
Page 330 - In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits, each of a peculiar activity. These are the good and the base in thought, word, and deed. Choose one of these two spirits. Be good, not base
Page 154 - Mr. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island who held a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll; this spoon had been carried to the grave of a dead man, and becoming inspired at full moon, in fact lunatic, it danced about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-seance.