Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Idea of Supreme Deity evolved in various forms among the lower races ; its place as completion of the Polytheistic system and outcome of the Animistic philosophy ; its continuance and development among higher nations - General survey of ...
... Idea of Supreme Deity evolved in various forms among the lower races ; its place as completion of the Polytheistic system and outcome of the Animistic philosophy ; its continuance and development among higher nations - General survey of ...
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... idea just noticed in America ; the future mother was told in a dream what name to give her child , this message being usually given by the very spirit of the deceased ancestor , who was about to be incarnate in her.8 Among the lower ...
... idea just noticed in America ; the future mother was told in a dream what name to give her child , this message being usually given by the very spirit of the deceased ancestor , who was about to be incarnate in her.8 Among the lower ...
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... idea is one known to lower races in the district of the world which has been more or less under Hindu influence ... ideas are originally indepen- dent of each other , and if not , did the Hindus adopt the 1 Manu , xi . xii . Ward ...
... idea is one known to lower races in the district of the world which has been more or less under Hindu influence ... ideas are originally indepen- dent of each other , and if not , did the Hindus adopt the 1 Manu , xi . xii . Ward ...
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... idea of a man's soul trans- migrating into a beast's body at least seem possible . But it does not actually suggest the idea . The view stated in a previous chapter as to the origin of the conception of soul in general , may perhaps ...
... idea of a man's soul trans- migrating into a beast's body at least seem possible . But it does not actually suggest the idea . The view stated in a previous chapter as to the origin of the conception of soul in general , may perhaps ...
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... idea of transmigration into ethical schemes of retribution , where the appropriateness of the creatures chosen is almost as manifest to the modern critic as it could have been to the ancient believer . Per- haps the most graphic ...
... idea of transmigration into ethical schemes of retribution , where the appropriateness of the creatures chosen is almost as manifest to the modern critic as it could have been to the ancient believer . Per- haps the most graphic ...
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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