Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... RITES AND CEREMONIES . 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 Gift- theory ...
... RITES AND CEREMONIES . 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 Gift- theory ...
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... rites , and who , desiring expiation , invisibly terrify their descendants.7 Nowhere in the world had such thoughts a stronger hold than in classic antiquity , where it was the most sacred of duties to give the body its funeral rites ...
... rites , and who , desiring expiation , invisibly terrify their descendants.7 Nowhere in the world had such thoughts a stronger hold than in classic antiquity , where it was the most sacred of duties to give the body its funeral rites ...
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... rites of mankind , of which only part of the multifarious details are directly re- levant to the present purpose , a custom may be selected which is admirably adapted for the study of animistic religion , at once from the clear ...
... rites of mankind , of which only part of the multifarious details are directly re- levant to the present purpose , a custom may be selected which is admirably adapted for the study of animistic religion , at once from the clear ...
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... rites were repre- sented by funeral feasts and oblations of food . In Christian times there manifests itself that interesting kind of survival which , keeping up the old ceremony in form , has adapted its motive to new thoughts and ...
... rites were repre- sented by funeral feasts and oblations of food . In Christian times there manifests itself that interesting kind of survival which , keeping up the old ceremony in form , has adapted its motive to new thoughts and ...
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... rites are much the same as those performed on other days for individuals ; their season differs in different districts , but seems to have par- ticular associations with harvest - time and the fall of the year , and with the year's end ...
... rites are much the same as those performed on other days for individuals ; their season differs in different districts , but seems to have par- ticular associations with harvest - time and the fall of the year , and with the year's end ...
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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