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... holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the next child born to this recipient of the departed soul is animated by it , and takes the rank and name of the deceased.2 The Nutka Indians not without ingenuity ...
... holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the next child born to this recipient of the departed soul is animated by it , and takes the rank and name of the deceased.2 The Nutka Indians not without ingenuity ...
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... 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 . Memory , it is true , fails generally ...
... 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 . Memory , it is true , fails generally ...
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... hold up from time to time for a warning to the mystical interpreters of our own day . The soul of Adam passed into David , and shall pass into the Messiah , for are not these initials in the very name of Ad ( a ) m , and does not ...
... hold up from time to time for a warning to the mystical interpreters of our own day . The soul of Adam passed into David , and shall pass into the Messiah , for are not these initials in the very name of Ad ( a ) m , and does not ...
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... hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection.1 Again , attention must be given to the practice , so common among low and high races , of preserving relics of the dead , from mere morsels of bone up to whole mummified ...
... hold original and distinct doctrines of corporeal resurrection.1 Again , attention must be given to the practice , so common among low and high races , of preserving relics of the dead , from mere morsels of bone up to whole mummified ...
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... 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 fit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander in the dismal crowd 1 Oldfield in ' Tr . Eth . Soc ...
... 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 fit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander in the dismal crowd 1 Oldfield in ' Tr . Eth . Soc ...
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