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... of Deities according to central conceptions of their significance and function - Heaven - god - Rain - god - Thunder - god - Wind - gods -- Earth - god — Water - god - Sea - godFire - god - Sun - god - Moon - god 247 CHAPTER XVII .
... of Deities according to central conceptions of their significance and function - Heaven - god - Rain - god - Thunder - god - Wind - gods -- Earth - god — Water - god - Sea - godFire - god - Sun - god - Moon - god 247 CHAPTER XVII .
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In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the resurrection of the dead on earth , considered the first white people they saw as ...
In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the resurrection of the dead on earth , considered the first white people they saw as ...
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... whether by successive embodiments of the immortal soul through creatures of earth , sea , and air , and back again to man , or by the simpler judicial penalty which sent back the wicked dead to earth as unclean beasts .
... whether by successive embodiments of the immortal soul through creatures of earth , sea , and air , and back again to man , or by the simpler judicial penalty which sent back the wicked dead to earth as unclean beasts .
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... again on earth , and the question arises whether it is the doctrine of bodily resurrection , or the doctrine of the surviving ghost - soul , that the Dinka poem denies . The missionary Kaufmann says that the Dinka do not believe the ...
... again on earth , and the question arises whether it is the doctrine of bodily resurrection , or the doctrine of the surviving ghost - soul , that the Dinka poem denies . The missionary Kaufmann says that the Dinka do not believe the ...
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... are principally these : the theories of lingering , wandering , and returning ghosts , and of souls dwelling on or below or above the earth in a spirit - world , where existence is modelled upon the earthly life , or raised to ...
... are principally these : the theories of lingering , wandering , and returning ghosts , and of souls dwelling on or below or above the earth in a spirit - world , where existence is modelled upon the earthly life , or raised to ...
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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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