Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 161
... adoration was paid : and though this author is not of good credit , he can hardly have invented a story which , as we shall see , so curiously coincides with the Polynesian idea of a bird conveying to and from an idol the spirit which ...
... adoration was paid : and though this author is not of good credit , he can hardly have invented a story which , as we shall see , so curiously coincides with the Polynesian idea of a bird conveying to and from an idol the spirit which ...
Page 162
... adoration and sacrifice as divinely powerful by virtue of the atua or deity which had filled them . So in the New Hebrides worship was given to water - worn pebbles , while Fijian gods and goddesses had their abodes or shrines in black ...
... adoration and sacrifice as divinely powerful by virtue of the atua or deity which had filled them . So in the New Hebrides worship was given to water - worn pebbles , while Fijian gods and goddesses had their abodes or shrines in black ...
Page 213
... adoration and sacrifice to foun- tains - as when Duke Bretislav forbade the still half- pagan country folk of Bohemia to offer libations and sacrifice victims at springs , and in England Ecgbert's Poenitentiale proscribes the like rites ...
... adoration and sacrifice to foun- tains - as when Duke Bretislav forbade the still half- pagan country folk of Bohemia to offer libations and sacrifice victims at springs , and in England Ecgbert's Poenitentiale proscribes the like rites ...
Page 215
... adoration and sacrifice . Whether such a tree is looked on as inhabited , like a man , by its own proper life or soul , or as possessed , like a fetish , by some other spirit which has entered it and uses it for a body , is often hard ...
... adoration and sacrifice . Whether such a tree is looked on as inhabited , like a man , by its own proper life or soul , or as possessed , like a fetish , by some other spirit which has entered it and uses it for a body , is often hard ...
Page 233
... adoration and grants protection as a fetish . ' In South Africa , as has been already mentioned , the Zulus hold that divine ancestral shades are embodied in certain tame and harmless snakes , whom their human kinsfolk receive with ...
... adoration and grants protection as a fetish . ' In South Africa , as has been already mentioned , the Zulus hold that divine ancestral shades are embodied in certain tame and harmless snakes , whom their human kinsfolk receive with ...
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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