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... and snakes , being thought men in metempsychosis , are held sacred . It is to be borne in mind that notions of this kind may form in barbaric psychology but a portion of the wide doctrine of the soul's future existence .
... and snakes , being thought men in metempsychosis , are held sacred . It is to be borne in mind that notions of this kind may form in barbaric psychology but a portion of the wide doctrine of the soul's future existence .
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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 , that the shade should not flit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander ...
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 , that the shade should not flit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander ...
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When at last he heard of it , he made the ascent , finding on the top only a few riverstones , forming one of the balai , or sacred cairns , common in the district . But the popular belief , that a tiger would devour the chiefs who ...
When at last he heard of it , he made the ascent , finding on the top only a few riverstones , forming one of the balai , or sacred cairns , common in the district . But the popular belief , that a tiger would devour the chiefs who ...
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this solar thought the Egyptian priests , representing in symbolic ceremony the scenes of the other world , carried the corpse in the sacred boat across to the burial - place , on the western side of the sacred lake .
this solar thought the Egyptian priests , representing in symbolic ceremony the scenes of the other world , carried the corpse in the sacred boat across to the burial - place , on the western side of the sacred lake .
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... then rising to heaven in the East he disappeared , having promised to be the helper of his people on earth , and to transport them , when they died , from the top of a sacred tree into another life , where they shall find their ...
... then rising to heaven in the East he disappeared , having promised to be the helper of his people on earth , and to transport them , when they died , from the top of a sacred tree into another life , where they shall find their ...
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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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