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... to a dead relative , is supposed to have inherited his soul ; ' and the Yorubas , greeting a new - born infant with the salutation , ' Thou art come ! ' look for signs to show what ancestral soul has returned among them .
... to a dead relative , is supposed to have inherited his soul ; ' and the Yorubas , greeting a new - born infant with the salutation , ' Thou art come ! ' look for signs to show what ancestral soul has returned among them .
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... to the clouded city of Kimmerian men , where shining Helios looks not down with his rays , and deadly night stretches always over wretched mortals , —thence they passed along the banks to the entrance of the land where the shades of ...
... to the clouded city of Kimmerian men , where shining Helios looks not down with his rays , and deadly night stretches always over wretched mortals , —thence they passed along the banks to the entrance of the land where the shades of ...
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The Red Indian visits his happy hunting - grounds , the Tongan his shadowy island of Bolotu , the Greek enters Hades and looks on the Elysian Fields , the Christian beholds the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell .
The Red Indian visits his happy hunting - grounds , the Tongan his shadowy island of Bolotu , the Greek enters Hades and looks on the Elysian Fields , the Christian beholds the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell .
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His Eukrates looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with his bald head and pot - belly , and also his own father , dressed ...
His Eukrates looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes Sokrates with his bald head and pot - belly , and also his own father , dressed ...
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... corpses into the crater , and in later years , after the conversion of the country , we hear of Christian confessors sending their penitents to climb the mountain , and ( as a glimpse of hell ) to look down upon the molten lava .
... corpses into the crater , and in later years , after the conversion of the country , we hear of Christian confessors sending their penitents to climb the mountain , and ( as a glimpse of hell ) to look down upon the molten lava .
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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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