Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1903 - Animism |
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... Idea of a Highest or Supreme Deity evolved in various forms ; its place as completion of the Polytheistic system and outcome of the Animistic philo- sophy ; its continuance and development among higher nations -General survey of Animism ...
... Idea of a Highest or Supreme Deity evolved in various forms ; its place as completion of the Polytheistic system and outcome of the Animistic philo- sophy ; its continuance and development among higher nations -General survey of Animism ...
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... idea just noticed in America ; the future mother was told in a dream what name to give her child , this message being usually given by the very spirit of the deceased ancestor , who was about to be incarnate in her . Among the lower ...
... idea just noticed in America ; the future mother was told in a dream what name to give her child , this message being usually given by the very spirit of the deceased ancestor , who was about to be incarnate in her . Among the lower ...
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... idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of re- surrection and immortality . It is especially certain green or brown harmless snakes , which come gently and ...
... idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of re- surrection and immortality . It is especially certain green or brown harmless snakes , which come gently and ...
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... idea is one known to lower races in a district of the world which has been under Hindu influence . Thus we hear ... ideas of vegetable transmigration can be considered as independent . 10 ANIMISM .
... idea is one known to lower races in a district of the world which has been under Hindu influence . Thus we hear ... ideas of vegetable transmigration can be considered as independent . 10 ANIMISM .
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... idea of a man's soul trans- ! migrating into a beast's body at least seem possible . But it does not actually suggest the idea . The view stated in a previous chapter as to the origin of the conception of soul in general , may perhaps ...
... idea of a man's soul trans- ! migrating into a beast's body at least seem possible . But it does not actually suggest the idea . The view stated in a previous chapter as to the origin of the conception of soul in general , may perhaps ...
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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.