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PAGE Polytheism comprises a class of great Deities , ruling the course of Nature and the life of Man - Childbirth - god - Agriculture - godWar - god - God of the Dead - First Man as Divine AncestorDualism ; its rudimentary and unethical ...
PAGE Polytheism comprises a class of great Deities , ruling the course of Nature and the life of Man - Childbirth - god - Agriculture - godWar - god - God of the Dead - First Man as Divine AncestorDualism ; its rudimentary and unethical ...
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The rules are set forth in the book of Manu how souls endowed with the quality of goodness acquire divine nature , while souls governed by passion take up the human state , and souls sunk in darkness are degraded to brutes .
The rules are set forth in the book of Manu how souls endowed with the quality of goodness acquire divine nature , while souls governed by passion take up the human state , and souls sunk in darkness are degraded to brutes .
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... it inhabits , as a divine ancestral spirit , the palace - tombs of the old classic and new Asiatic world ; it is kept down by the huge cairn raised over Antar's body lest his mighty spirit should burst forth , by the iron nails with ...
... it inhabits , as a divine ancestral spirit , the palace - tombs of the old classic and new Asiatic world ; it is kept down by the huge cairn raised over Antar's body lest his mighty spirit should burst forth , by the iron nails with ...
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As in their thoughts sensual pleasure seemed poor and despicable in comparison with mystic inward joy , rising and rising till consciousness fades in trance , so , above their heavens of millions of years of mere divine happiness , they ...
As in their thoughts sensual pleasure seemed poor and despicable in comparison with mystic inward joy , rising and rising till consciousness fades in trance , so , above their heavens of millions of years of mere divine happiness , they ...
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It will be seen in another place how the Zulu follows up the doctrine of divine ancestors till he reaches a first ancestor of man and creator of the world , the primĉval Unkulunkulu .
It will be seen in another place how the Zulu follows up the doctrine of divine ancestors till he reaches a first ancestor of man and creator of the world , the primĉval Unkulunkulu .
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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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