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Again , attention must be given to the practice , so common among low and high races , of preserving relics of the dead , from mere morsels of bone up to whole mummified bodies . It is well known that the departed soul is often thought ...
Again , attention must be given to the practice , so common among low and high races , of preserving relics of the dead , from mere morsels of bone up to whole mummified bodies . It is well known that the departed soul is often thought ...
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The Western Church at large took up the practice , and round it there naturally gathered surviving remnants of the primitive rite of banquets to the dead . The accusation against the early Christians , that they appeased the shades of ...
The Western Church at large took up the practice , and round it there naturally gathered surviving remnants of the primitive rite of banquets to the dead . The accusation against the early Christians , that they appeased the shades of ...
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... soul of a certain wicked British officer , whom native worshippers in the Tinnevelly district still propitiate by offering at his grave the brandy and cheroots he loved in life . India even carries theory into practice by an actual ...
... soul of a certain wicked British officer , whom native worshippers in the Tinnevelly district still propitiate by offering at his grave the brandy and cheroots he loved in life . India even carries theory into practice by an actual ...
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Thus the practices of the exorcist appear side by side with the doctrine of possession , from its first appearance in savagery to its survival in modern civilization ; and nothing could display more vividly the conception of a disease ...
Thus the practices of the exorcist appear side by side with the doctrine of possession , from its first appearance in savagery to its survival in modern civilization ; and nothing could display more vividly the conception of a disease ...
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As for oracular possession , its theory and practice remained in fullest vigour through the classic world , scarce altered from the times of lowest barbarism . Could a South Sea Islander have gone to Delphi to watch the convulsive ...
As for oracular possession , its theory and practice remained in fullest vigour through the classic world , scarce altered from the times of lowest barbarism . Could a South Sea Islander have gone to Delphi to watch the convulsive ...
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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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