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 ...
... 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 - 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 falls into two main divisions . Closely connected and even largely overlapping one another , both world - wide in their distribution , both ranging back in time to periods of un- knowr antiquity , both deeply rooted in the ...
... Future Life falls into two main divisions . Closely connected and even largely overlapping one another , both world - wide in their distribution , both ranging back in time to periods of un- knowr antiquity , both deeply rooted in the ...
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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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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