Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom, Volume 2 |
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Tineid es the T and 2COS OLED fel 25 m liz wor Within the classic world , the ancient Egyptians were described as maintaining a doctrine of migration , whether by successive embodiments of the immortal soul through creatures of earth ...
Tineid es the T and 2COS OLED fel 25 m liz wor Within the classic world , the ancient Egyptians were described as maintaining a doctrine of migration , whether by successive embodiments of the immortal soul through creatures of earth ...
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... I have described the theory of the soul's transmigration into a new human body as asserting in fact an earthly resurrection . From the same point of view , a bodily resurrection in Heaven or Hades is technically a transmigration of ...
... I have described the theory of the soul's transmigration into a new human body as asserting in fact an earthly resurrection . From the same point of view , a bodily resurrection in Heaven or Hades is technically a transmigration of ...
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Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter of which the purpose more or less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ghostly or ideal manner , or that they shall by some means be ...
Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter of which the purpose more or less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ghostly or ideal manner , or that they shall by some means be ...
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... and thither not only the spirit of the deceased , but the spirits of the slaves sacrificed at his funeral , come to partake of it . Farther south , in the Congo district , the custom has been described of making a channel into the ...
... and thither not only the spirit of the deceased , but the spirits of the slaves sacrificed at his funeral , come to partake of it . Farther south , in the Congo district , the custom has been described of making a channel into the ...
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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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| 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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