Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2Murray, 1903 - Animism |
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... look for signs to show what ancestral soul has returned among them.6 Among the Khonds of Orissa , births are celebrated by a feast on the seventh day , and the priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of water , and judging ...
... look for signs to show what ancestral soul has returned among them.6 Among the Khonds of Orissa , births are celebrated by a feast on the seventh day , and the priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of water , and judging ...
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... looks not down with his rays , and deadly night stretches always over wretched mortals , -thence they passed along the banks to the entrance of the land where the shades of the departed , quickened for a while by the taste of ...
... looks not down with his rays , and deadly night stretches always over wretched mortals , -thence they passed along the banks to the entrance of the land where the shades of the departed , quickened for a while by the taste of ...
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... looks on the Elysian Fields , the Christian beholds the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell . * Among the North American Indians , and especially the Algonquin tribes , accounts are not unusual of men whose spirits , travelling in ...
... looks on the Elysian Fields , the Christian beholds the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell . * Among the North American Indians , and especially the Algonquin tribes , accounts are not unusual of men whose spirits , travelling in ...
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... looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with his bald head and pot - belly , and also his own father , dressed in the clothes ...
... looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with his bald head and pot - belly , and also his own father , dressed in the clothes ...
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... look down upon the molten lava.1 Fourthly , in old times and new , it has come into men's minds to fix upon the sun and moon as abodes of departed souls . When we have learnt from the rude Natchez of the Mississippi and the Apalaches of ...
... look down upon the molten lava.1 Fourthly , in old times and new , it has come into men's minds to fix upon the sun and moon as abodes of departed souls . When we have learnt from the rude Natchez of the Mississippi and the Apalaches of ...
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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.