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... the doctrine of Monotheism - Idea of a Highest or Supreme Deity evolved in various forms ; its place as completion of the Polytheistic system and outcome of the Animistic philosophy ; its continuance and development among higher ...
... the doctrine of Monotheism - Idea of a Highest or Supreme Deity evolved in various forms ; its place as completion of the Polytheistic system and outcome of the Animistic philosophy ; its continuance and development among higher ...
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In Europe the Lapps repeat an instructive animistic idea just noticed in America ; the future mother was told in a dream what name to give her child , this message being usually given by the very spirit of the deceased ancestor ...
In Europe the Lapps repeat an instructive animistic idea just noticed in America ; the future mother was told in a dream what name to give her child , this message being usually given by the very spirit of the deceased ancestor ...
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The idea is one known to lower races in a district of the world which has been under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like ...
The idea is one known to lower races in a district of the world which has been under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like ...
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As has been already pointed out , savages not unreasonably consider the lower animals to have souls like their own , and this state of mind makes the idea of a man's soul transmigrating into a beast's body at least seem possible .
As has been already pointed out , savages not unreasonably consider the lower animals to have souls like their own , and this state of mind makes the idea of a man's soul transmigrating into a beast's body at least seem possible .
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The idea of the ghost actually devouring the material food is not unexampled . Thus , in North America , Algonquin Indians considered that the shadow - like souls of the dead can still eat and drink , often even telling Father Le Jeune ...
The idea of the ghost actually devouring the material food is not unexampled . Thus , in North America , Algonquin Indians considered that the shadow - like souls of the dead can still eat and drink , often even telling Father Le Jeune ...
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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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