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Page vii
... RITES AND CEREMONIES . 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 ...
... RITES AND CEREMONIES . 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 ...
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... rites were so pre- maturely celebrated while his soul was out , and after that , as Lucian tells the story , his prophetic soul passed into the body of a cock . Mikyllos asks this cock to tell him about Troy - were things there really ...
... rites were so pre- maturely celebrated while his soul was out , and after that , as Lucian tells the story , his prophetic soul passed into the body of a cock . Mikyllos asks this cock to tell him about Troy - were things there really ...
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... rites . Hence the deep - lying belief that the ghosts of such will walk . Among some Australian tribes the ' ingna , ' or evil spirits , human in shape , but with long tails and long upright ears , are mostly souls of departed natives ...
... rites . Hence the deep - lying belief that the ghosts of such will walk . Among some Australian tribes the ' ingna , ' or evil spirits , human in shape , but with long tails and long upright ears , are mostly souls of departed natives ...
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... rites , and who , desiring expiation , invisibly terrify their descendants.7 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 ...
... rites , and who , desiring expiation , invisibly terrify their descendants.7 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 ...
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... rites of burial pass here and there into new legends , where , under a changed dispensation , the doleful wanderer now asks Christian burial in consecrated earth . It is needless to give here elaborate details of the world - wide ...
... rites of burial pass here and there into new legends , where , under a changed dispensation , the doleful wanderer now asks Christian burial in consecrated earth . It is needless to give here elaborate details of the world - wide ...
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