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In North - West America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion of soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ...
In North - West America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion of soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ...
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... consistently and systematically hold that a man's life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he is , while at this moment he is accumulating merit or demerit whose result will determine his fate in future lives .
... consistently and systematically hold that a man's life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he is , while at this moment he is accumulating merit or demerit whose result will determine his fate in future lives .
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In the later Jewish philosophy , the Kabbalists took up the doctrine of migration , the gilgul or ' rolling on ' of souls , and maintained it by that characteristic method of Biblical interpretation which it is good to hold up from time ...
In the later Jewish philosophy , the Kabbalists took up the doctrine of migration , the gilgul or ' rolling on ' of souls , and maintained it by that characteristic method of Biblical interpretation which it is good to hold up from time ...
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... whether the dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class are hardly enough to prove the lower races to hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection .
... whether the dead are or are not thought of as having bodies like the living ; and a few pieces of evidence of this class are hardly enough to prove the lower races to hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection .
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Nowhere in the world had such thoughts a stronger hold than in classic antiquity , where it was the most sacred of duties to give the body its funeral rites , that the shade should not flit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander ...
Nowhere in the world had such thoughts a stronger hold than in classic antiquity , where it was the most sacred of duties to give the body its funeral rites , that the shade should not flit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander ...
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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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