Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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... symbolic - Prayer : its : by Water and Fire : its transition from material. continuity from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical ; its higher phases Ethical --- Sacrifice : its original Giftthcory passes into ...
... symbolic - Prayer : its : by Water and Fire : its transition from material. continuity from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical ; its higher phases Ethical --- Sacrifice : its original Giftthcory passes into ...
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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 .
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 .
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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