Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... bear- ing a strong resemblance , physical or mental , to a dead relative , is supposed to have inherited his soul ; and the Yorubas , greeting a new - born infant with the salutation , " Thou art come ! " look for signs to show what ...
... bear- ing a strong resemblance , physical or mental , to a dead relative , is supposed to have inherited his soul ; and the Yorubas , greeting a new - born infant with the salutation , " Thou art come ! " look for signs to show what ...
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... bears , and travellers have heard of a tribe begging the life of a wrinkle - faced old she grizzly bear as the recipient of the soul of some particular grandam , whom they fancied the creature to resemble.1 So , among the Esquimaux , a ...
... bears , and travellers have heard of a tribe begging the life of a wrinkle - faced old she grizzly bear as the recipient of the soul of some particular grandam , whom they fancied the creature to resemble.1 So , among the Esquimaux , a ...
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... bear , fox , owl , parrot , viper , worm , when we apply them as epithets to men , condense into a word some leading feature of a human life . Consistently with this , we see in looking over details of savage transmigration that the ...
... bear , fox , owl , parrot , viper , worm , when we apply them as epithets to men , condense into a word some leading feature of a human life . Consistently with this , we see in looking over details of savage transmigration that the ...
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... bear , wherefore their souls bear the properties of these , and imitate their deeds ( Clem . Alex . Stromat . ii . c . 20 ) . higher races . This is the doctrine of a bodily 18 ANIMISM .
... bear , wherefore their souls bear the properties of these , and imitate their deeds ( Clem . Alex . Stromat . ii . c . 20 ) . higher races . This is the doctrine of a bodily 18 ANIMISM .
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... bears testi- mony to the regularity of the processes by which opinion is formed among mankind . At the same time , the student who carefully compares them will find in them a perfect illustration of an important principle , widely ...
... bears testi- mony to the regularity of the processes by which opinion is formed among mankind . At the same time , the student who carefully compares them will find in them a perfect illustration of an important principle , widely ...
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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