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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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2 St. John , “ Far East , ' vol . i . p . 181 ; Perelaer , ' Ethnog . Beschr . der Dajaks , ' p . 17 . 1 ideas of vegetable transmigration can be considered as independent . 3 Hunter , ' Rural Bengal , ' p .
2 St. John , “ Far East , ' vol . i . p . 181 ; Perelaer , ' Ethnog . Beschr . der Dajaks , ' p . 17 . 1 ideas of vegetable transmigration can be considered as independent . 3 Hunter , ' Rural Bengal , ' p .
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When the East African is asked what becomes of his buried ancestors , the old people , ' he can reply that they are ended , ' yet at the same time he fully admits that their ghosts survive . In an account of the religious ideas of the ...
When the East African is asked what becomes of his buried ancestors , the old people , ' he can reply that they are ended , ' yet at the same time he fully admits that their ghosts survive . In an account of the religious ideas of the ...
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... that the ghost of the departed monarch might occasionally visit the resting - place of his body , meet with the spirit of his father , and partake of what he was known to be fond of in his lifetime.2 The Wanika of East Africa set a ...
... that the ghost of the departed monarch might occasionally visit the resting - place of his body , meet with the spirit of his father , and partake of what he was known to be fond of in his lifetime.2 The Wanika of East Africa set a ...
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South - East Asia is full of it , and the Chinese may stand as its representative . He keeps his coffined parent for years , serving him with meals as if alive . He summons ancestral souls with prayer and beat of drum to feed on the ...
South - East Asia is full of it , and the Chinese may stand as its representative . He keeps his coffined parent for years , serving him with meals as if alive . He summons ancestral souls with prayer and beat of drum to feed on the ...
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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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