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... becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion - Definition of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that of Souls --Transition - stage : classes of Souls passing into good and evil Demons - Manes - Worship - Doctrine of ...
... becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion - Definition of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that of Souls --Transition - stage : classes of Souls passing into good and evil Demons - Manes - Worship - Doctrine of ...
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... Swoons and fits induced for religious purposes - Orientation : its relation to Sun - myth and Sun - worship ; rules of East and West as to burial of dead , position of worship , and structure of temple - Lustration i Brebenf in .
... Swoons and fits induced for religious purposes - Orientation : its relation to Sun - myth and Sun - worship ; rules of East and West as to burial of dead , position of worship , and structure of temple - Lustration i Brebenf in .
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... and manes - worship , so deep and strong among the faiths of the world , recognises with a reverence not without fear and trembling those ancestral spirits which , powerful for good or ill , manifest their presence among mankind .
... and manes - worship , so deep and strong among the faiths of the world , recognises with a reverence not without fear and trembling those ancestral spirits which , powerful for good or ill , manifest their presence among mankind .
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Manes - worship is one of the great branches of the religion of mankind . Its principles are not difficult to understand , for they plainly keep up the social relations of the living world . The dead ancestor , now passed into a deity ...
Manes - worship is one of the great branches of the religion of mankind . Its principles are not difficult to understand , for they plainly keep up the social relations of the living world . The dead ancestor , now passed into a deity ...
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In Madagascar , the worship of the spirits of the dead is remarkably associated with the Vazimbas , the aborigines of the island , who are said still to survive as a distinct race in the interior , and whose peculiar graves testify to ...
In Madagascar , the worship of the spirits of the dead is remarkably associated with the Vazimbas , the aborigines of the island , who are said still to survive as a distinct race in the interior , and whose peculiar graves testify to ...
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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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