Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Man -- Childbirth - god -Agriculture - god- War - god - God of the Dead - First Man as Divine Ancestor- Dualism ; its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity ...
... Man -- Childbirth - god -Agriculture - god- War - god - God of the Dead - First Man as Divine Ancestor- Dualism ; its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development through the course of culture - Good and Evil Deity ...
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... man's soul able to enter into other bodies of men and animals , going in and out like the inhabitant of a house . In old times , they say , men existed in the forms of birds , beasts , and fishes , or these had the spirits of the ...
... man's soul able to enter into other bodies of men and animals , going in and out like the inhabitant of a house . In old times , they say , men existed in the forms of birds , beasts , and fishes , or these had the spirits of the ...
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... man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature ... man who has become a snake can still be recognized ; if the creature is one - eyed , or has a scar or some other mark ...
... man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature ... man who has become a snake can still be recognized ; if the creature is one - eyed , or has a scar or some other mark ...
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... man's life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he is , while at this moment he is accumulating ... man so holy ? Because in a previous birth he had walked near a dagoba with his slippers on , and had trodden on a ...
... man's life in former existences is the cause of his now being what he is , while at this moment he is accumulating ... man so holy ? Because in a previous birth he had walked near a dagoba with his slippers on , and had trodden on a ...
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... man dies , as one forsakes a burning house . In the course of develop- ment , a soul may migrate through bodies stage after stage , zoophyte and oyster , grasshopper and eagle , crocodile and dog , till it arrives at man , thence ...
... man dies , as one forsakes a burning house . In the course of develop- ment , a soul may migrate through bodies stage after stage , zoophyte and oyster , grasshopper and eagle , crocodile and dog , till it arrives at man , thence ...
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