Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... carry away the soul.5 In Mexico , the Tlascalans thought that after death the souls of nobles would animate beautiful singing birds , while plebeians passed into weasels and beetles and such like vile creatures . So , in Brazil , the ...
... carry away the soul.5 In Mexico , the Tlascalans thought that after death the souls of nobles would animate beautiful singing birds , while plebeians passed into weasels and beetles and such like vile creatures . So , in Brazil , the ...
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... carry on the consequences of past and prepare the antecedents of future life . To the Hindu the body is but the temporary receptacle of the soul , which , " bound in the chains of deeds " and " eating the fruits of past actions ...
... carry on the consequences of past and prepare the antecedents of future life . To the Hindu the body is but the temporary receptacle of the soul , which , " bound in the chains of deeds " and " eating the fruits of past actions ...
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... carried in a former birth , when he was that Euphorbos whom Menelaus flew at the siege of Troy . Afterwards he was Hermotimos , the Klazomenian prophet whose funeral rites were so prematurely celebrated while his soul was out , and ...
... carried in a former birth , when he was that Euphorbos whom Menelaus flew at the siege of Troy . Afterwards he was Hermotimos , the Klazomenian prophet whose funeral rites were so prematurely celebrated while his soul was out , and ...
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... carried out with more than Buddhist elaborateness . Body is the habitat of soul , which goes out when a man dies , as one forsakes a burning house . In the course of develop- ment , a soul may migrate through bodies stage after stage ...
... carried out with more than Buddhist elaborateness . Body is the habitat of soul , which goes out when a man dies , as one forsakes a burning house . In the course of develop- ment , a soul may migrate through bodies stage after stage ...
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... carrying on an independent existence like other corporeal creatures . Savage descriptions of the next world are often such ab- solute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as ...
... carrying on an independent existence like other corporeal creatures . Savage descriptions of the next world are often such ab- solute copies of this , that it is scarcely possible to say whether the dead are or are not thought of as ...
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