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Religious Rites : their purpose practical or symbolic - Prayer : its continuity from
low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical ; its higher phases
Ethical - - Sacrifice : its original Giftthcory passes into the Homage - thcory and
the ...
Religious Rites : their purpose practical or symbolic - Prayer : its continuity from
low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical ; its higher phases
Ethical - - Sacrifice : its original Giftthcory passes into the Homage - thcory and
the ...
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He summons ancestral souls with prayer and beat of drum to feed on the meat
and drink set out on special days when they are thought to return home . He even
gives entertainments for the benefit of 1 Tickell in ' Journ . As . Soc . Bengal , ' vol
...
He summons ancestral souls with prayer and beat of drum to feed on the meat
and drink set out on special days when they are thought to return home . He even
gives entertainments for the benefit of 1 Tickell in ' Journ . As . Soc . Bengal , ' vol
...
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The higher classes have let the rite sink to prayer at the graves of lost relatives ,
and giving alms to the beggars who flock to the cemeteries . But the people still “
howl ” for the dead , and set out on their graves a handkerchief for a tablecloth ...
The higher classes have let the rite sink to prayer at the graves of lost relatives ,
and giving alms to the beggars who flock to the cemeteries . But the people still “
howl ” for the dead , and set out on their graves a handkerchief for a tablecloth ...
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And at last , as the inmates retire to rest , there is heard at the door a doleful chant
- it is the souls , who , borrowing the voices of the parish poor , have come to ask
the prayers of the living . If we ask how the spirits of the dead are in general ...
And at last , as the inmates retire to rest , there is heard at the door a doleful chant
- it is the souls , who , borrowing the voices of the parish poor , have come to ask
the prayers of the living . If we ask how the spirits of the dead are in general ...
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It is said that in our own time the Taepings have made a step beyond Confucius ;
they have forbidden the sacrifices to the spirits of the dead , yet keep up the rite of
visiting their tombs on the customary day , for prayer and the renewal of vows .
It is said that in our own time the Taepings have made a step beyond Confucius ;
they have forbidden the sacrifices to the spirits of the dead , yet keep up the rite of
visiting their tombs on the customary day , for prayer and the renewal of vows .
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| Title | Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Author | Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1877 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2008 |
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