Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Future Life - Transmigration of Souls : re - birth in Human and Animal Bodies , transference to Plants and Objects -Resurrection of Body scarcely held in savage religion - Future Life a general though not universal doctrine of low races ...
... Future Life - Transmigration of Souls : re - birth in Human and Animal Bodies , transference to Plants and Objects -Resurrection of Body scarcely held in savage religion - Future Life a general though not universal doctrine of low races ...
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... Future Life - Transmigration of Souls : re - birth in Human and Animal Bodies , transference to Plants and Objects - Resurrection of Body scarcely held in savage religion - Future Life : a general though not universal doctrine of low ...
... Future Life - Transmigration of Souls : re - birth in Human and Animal Bodies , transference to Plants and Objects - Resurrection of Body scarcely held in savage religion - Future Life : a general though not universal doctrine of low ...
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... Future Life Closely connected and even changed intellectual condition . falls into two main divisions . largely overlapping one another , both world - wide in their distribution , both ranging back in time to periods of un- known ...
... Future Life Closely connected and even changed intellectual condition . falls into two main divisions . largely overlapping one another , both world - wide in their distribution , both ranging back in time to periods of un- known ...
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... future mother was told in a dream what name to give her child , this message being usually given by the very spirit of the deceased ancestor , who was about to be incarnate in her.8 Among the lower races generally the Bastian ...
... future mother was told in a dream what name to give her child , this message being usually given by the very spirit of the deceased ancestor , who was about to be incarnate in her.8 Among the lower races generally the Bastian ...
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... future existence . For a conspicuous instance of this , let us take the system of the Gold - Coast negroes . They believe that the " kla " or " kra , " the vital soul , becomes at death a " sisa " or ghost , which can remain in the ...
... future existence . For a conspicuous instance of this , let us take the system of the Gold - Coast negroes . They believe that the " kla " or " kra , " the vital soul , becomes at death a " sisa " or ghost , which can remain in the ...
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