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The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of resurrection and ...
The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of resurrection and ...
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The idea is one known to lower races in a district of the world which has been under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like ...
The idea is one known to lower races in a district of the world which has been under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like ...
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As has been already pointed out , savages not unreasonably consider the lower animals to have souls like their own , and this state of mind makes the idea of a man's soul transmigrating into a beast's body at least seem possible .
As has been already pointed out , savages not unreasonably consider the lower animals to have souls like their own , and this state of mind makes the idea of a man's soul transmigrating into a beast's body at least seem possible .
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The idea of the ghost actually devouring the material food is not unexampled . Thus , in North America , Algonquin Indians considered that the shadow - like souls of the dead can still eat and drink , often even telling Father Le Jeune ...
The idea of the ghost actually devouring the material food is not unexampled . Thus , in North America , Algonquin Indians considered that the shadow - like souls of the dead can still eat and drink , often even telling Father Le Jeune ...
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The idea is well displayed among the natives in Mexican districts , where the souls who came to the annual feast are described as hovering over and smelling the food set out for them , or sucking out its nutritive quality .
The idea is well displayed among the natives in Mexican districts , where the souls who came to the annual feast are described as hovering over and smelling the food set out for them , or sucking out its nutritive quality .
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Page 391 - 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 80 - 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 378 - 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 290 - 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 100 - 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 257 - 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 86 - 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 193 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.'* As
Page 332 - 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 156 - 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.
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Murray, 1903 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Mar 2006 |
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