Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 49
... 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 . Among the North American Indians , and especially the Algonquin tribes ...
... 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 . Among the North American Indians , and especially the Algonquin tribes ...
Page 62
... Tongan legend says that , long ago , a canoe returning from Fiji was driven by stress of weather to Bolotu , the island of gods and souls lying in the ocean north - west of Tonga . That island is larger than all theirs together , full ...
... Tongan legend says that , long ago , a canoe returning from Fiji was driven by stress of weather to Bolotu , the island of gods and souls lying in the ocean north - west of Tonga . That island is larger than all theirs together , full ...
Page 71
... Tonga Is . ' vol . ii . p . 134 ; Turner , ' Polynesia , ' p . 103 ; Taylor , ' New Zealand , ' pp . 101 , 114 , 256 . 3 Callaway , ' Rel . of Amazulu , ' p . 393 ; Burton , W. and W. fr . W. Afr . ' p . 44 ; Castrén , Finn . Myth . ' p ...
... Tonga Is . ' vol . ii . p . 134 ; Turner , ' Polynesia , ' p . 103 ; Taylor , ' New Zealand , ' pp . 101 , 114 , 256 . 3 Callaway , ' Rel . of Amazulu , ' p . 393 ; Burton , W. and W. fr . W. Afr . ' p . 44 ; Castrén , Finn . Myth . ' p ...
Page 85
... Tonga islands , where aristocratic souls would pass to take their earthly rank and station in the island paradise of Bolotu , while plebeian souls , if indeed they existed , would die with the plebeian bodies they dwelt in . In ...
... Tonga islands , where aristocratic souls would pass to take their earthly rank and station in the island paradise of Bolotu , while plebeian souls , if indeed they existed , would die with the plebeian bodies they dwelt in . In ...
Page 114
... Tonga and New Zealand , the souls of chiefs and warriors form a lower but active and powerful order of deities , who in the Tongan paradise intercede for man's benefit with the higher deities , who direct the Maori war parties on the ...
... Tonga and New Zealand , the souls of chiefs and warriors form a lower but active and powerful order of deities , who in the Tongan paradise intercede for man's benefit with the higher deities , who direct the Maori war parties on the ...
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Africa Amazulu Amer ancestors ancient animals animistic Archip Aryan Avesta barbaric Bastian beasts belief body Brahmans Brinton Buddhism Castrén ceremony Chinese Christian civilized conception connexion Creator dead death deity demons disease divine doctrine dwell earth evil feast fetish fire ghosts give gods Greek Grimm Hades Heaven Heaven-god higher Hindu human idea idol images Indians Iroquois island J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land living lower culture lower races lustration mankind Max Müller Meiners mind modern Moon Myth nations native nature negro offerings original Parsi pass Peru philosophy Pinkerton Polynesia polytheism prayer priest region religion religious rites rude sacred sacrifice savage Schoolcraft seems Sheol snakes solar spirits stone Sun-worship Supreme Deity survival temple theology theory thou thought thunder tion Tonga tree tribes Turanian tribes Unkulunkulu Waitz West worship Zealand Zeus Zulu