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Religious Rites : their purpose practical or symbolic - Prayer : its continuity from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical ; its higher phases Ethical - Sacrifice : its original Gift . theory passes into the Homage ...
Religious Rites : their purpose practical or symbolic - Prayer : its continuity from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical ; its higher phases Ethical - Sacrifice : its original Gift . theory passes into the Homage ...
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He summons ancestral souls with prayer and beat of drum to feed on the meat and drink set out on special days when they are thought to return home . He even gives entertainments for the benefit of en le str trict I stor of met restoran ...
He summons ancestral souls with prayer and beat of drum to feed on the meat and drink set out on special days when they are thought to return home . He even gives entertainments for the benefit of en le str trict I stor of met restoran ...
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The higher classes have let the rite sink to prayer at the graves of lost relatives , and giving alms to the beggars who flock to the cemeteries . But the people still ' howl ' for the dead , and set out on their graves a handkerchief ...
The higher classes have let the rite sink to prayer at the graves of lost relatives , and giving alms to the beggars who flock to the cemeteries . But the people still ' howl ' for the dead , and set out on their graves a handkerchief ...
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And at last , as the inmates retire to rest , there is heard at the door a doleful chant - it is the souls , who , borrowing the voices of the parish poor , have come to ask the prayers of the living . If we ask how the spirits of the ...
And at last , as the inmates retire to rest , there is heard at the door a doleful chant - it is the souls , who , borrowing the voices of the parish poor , have come to ask the prayers of the living . If we ask how the spirits of the ...
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It is said that in our own time the Taepings have made a step beyond Confucius ; they have forbidden the sacrifices to the spirits of the dead , yet keep up the rite of visiting their tombs on the customary day , for prayer and the ...
It is said that in our own time the Taepings have made a step beyond Confucius ; they have forbidden the sacrifices to the spirits of the dead , yet keep up the rite of visiting their tombs on the customary day , for prayer and 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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