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... thus imagined as in the West -- Realization of current religious ideas , whether of savage or civilized theology , in narratives of visits to the Regions of Souls — Localization of the Future Life -- Distant earthly region : Earthly ...
... thus imagined as in the West -- Realization of current religious ideas , whether of savage or civilized theology , in narratives of visits to the Regions of Souls — Localization of the Future Life -- Distant earthly region : Earthly ...
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... Orientation : its relation to Sun - myth and Sun - worship ; rules of East and West as to burial of dead , position of worship , and structure of temple - Lustration PAOK : by Water and Fire : its transition from CONTENTS . vii.
... Orientation : its relation to Sun - myth and Sun - worship ; rules of East and West as to burial of dead , position of worship , and structure of temple - Lustration PAOK : by Water and Fire : its transition from CONTENTS . vii.
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In North - West America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion of soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ...
In North - West America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion of soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ...
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In North - West America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; ? and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians ...
In North - West America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; ? and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians ...
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The belief in the new human birth of the departed soul , which has even led West African negroes to commit suicide when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a ...
The belief in the new human birth of the departed soul , which has even led West African negroes to commit suicide when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a ...
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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 | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 14 May 2014 |
| Length | 973 pages |
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