Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... creature to resemble.1 So , among the Esquimaux , a traveller noticed a widow who was living for conscience ' sake upon ... creatures . So , in Brazil , the Içannas say that the souls of the brave will become beautiful birds feeding on ...
... creature to resemble.1 So , among the Esquimaux , a traveller noticed a widow who was living for conscience ' sake upon ... creatures . So , in Brazil , the Içannas say that the souls of the brave will become beautiful birds feeding on ...
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... creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of re- surrection and immortality . It is especially certain green or brown harmless snakes , which come gently and fearlessly into houses , which are ...
... creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of re- surrection and immortality . It is especially certain green or brown harmless snakes , which come gently and fearlessly into houses , which are ...
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... creatures differ rather in degree than kind , all are akin to man , an elephant or ape or worm may once have been human , and may become human again , a pariah or barbarian is at once low - caste among men and high - caste among brutes ...
... creatures differ rather in degree than kind , all are akin to man , an elephant or ape or worm may once have been human , and may become human again , a pariah or barbarian is at once low - caste among men and high - caste among brutes ...
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... creatures of earth , sea , and air , and back again to man , or by the simpler judicial penalty which sent back the wicked dead to earth as unclean beasts . The pictures and hiero- glyphic sentences of the Book of the Dead are still pre ...
... creatures of earth , sea , and air , and back again to man , or by the simpler judicial penalty which sent back the wicked dead to earth as unclean beasts . The pictures and hiero- glyphic sentences of the Book of the Dead are still pre ...
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... creatures often have an evident fitness to the character of the human beings whose souls are to pass into them , so that the savage VOL . II . C philosopher's fancy of transferred souls offered something like an explanation ANIMISM . 17.
... creatures often have an evident fitness to the character of the human beings whose souls are to pass into them , so that the savage VOL . II . C philosopher's fancy of transferred souls offered something like an explanation ANIMISM . 17.
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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