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Higher Deities of Polytheism - Human characteristics applied to Deity - Lords of Spiritual Hierarchy - Polytheism : its ... classification of Deities according to central conceptions of their significance and function - Heaven - god ...
Higher Deities of Polytheism - Human characteristics applied to Deity - Lords of Spiritual Hierarchy - Polytheism : its ... classification of Deities according to central conceptions of their significance and function - Heaven - god ...
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PAGE Polytheism comprises a class of great Deities , ruling the course of Nature and the life of Man - Childbirth - god ... its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity — Doctrine of Divine Supremacy , distinct ...
PAGE Polytheism comprises a class of great Deities , ruling the course of Nature and the life of Man - Childbirth - god ... its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity — Doctrine of Divine Supremacy , distinct ...
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First , as to the direct historical succession of the Christian saint to the heathen deity , the following are two very perfect illustrations . It is well known that Romulus , mindful of his own adventurous infancy , became after death ...
First , as to the direct historical succession of the Christian saint to the heathen deity , the following are two very perfect illustrations . It is well known that Romulus , mindful of his own adventurous infancy , became after death ...
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1 Barolong give a kind of worship to deranged persons , as being under the direct influence of a deity ; while in East Africa the explanation of madness and idiocy is simple and typical — he has fiends .
1 Barolong give a kind of worship to deranged persons , as being under the direct influence of a deity ; while in East Africa the explanation of madness and idiocy is simple and typical — he has fiends .
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Then arises the difficult question , are the stocks and stones set up as mere ideal representatives of deities , or are these deities considered as physically connected with them , embodied in them , hovering about them , acting through ...
Then arises the difficult question , are the stocks and stones set up as mere ideal representatives of deities , or are these deities considered as physically connected with them , embodied in them , hovering about them , acting through ...
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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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