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Page 4
... physical or mental , to a dead relative , is supposed to have inherited his soul ;
6 and the Yorubas , greeting a new - born infant with the salutation , “ Thou art
come ! ” look for signs to show what ancestral soul has returned among them .
... physical or mental , to a dead relative , is supposed to have inherited his soul ;
6 and the Yorubas , greeting a new - born infant with the salutation , “ Thou art
come ! ” look for signs to show what ancestral soul has returned among them .
Page 48
... where shining Helios looks not down with his rays , and deadly night stretches
always over wretched mortals , — thence they passed along the banks to the
entrance of the land where the shades of the departed , quickened for a while by
the ...
... where shining Helios looks not down with his rays , and deadly night stretches
always over wretched mortals , — thence they passed along the banks to the
entrance of the land where the shades of the departed , quickened for a while by
the ...
Page 49
The Red Indian visits his happy hunting - grounds , the Tongan his shadowy
island of Bolotu , the Greek enters Hades and looks on the Elysian Fields , the
Christian beholds the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell . Among the
North ...
The Red Indian visits his happy hunting - grounds , the Tongan his shadowy
island of Bolotu , the Greek enters Hades and looks on the Elysian Fields , the
Christian beholds the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell . Among the
North ...
Page 53
His Eukrates looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on
the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes
Sokrates with his bald head and pot - belly , and also his own father , dressed in ...
His Eukrates looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on
the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he recognizes
Sokrates with his bald head and pot - belly , and also his own father , dressed in ...
Page 69
... sacrifices to their volcano Masaya , flinging the corpses into the crater , and in
later years , after the conversion of the country , we hear of Christian confessors
sending their penitents to climb the mountain , and ( as a glimpse of hell ) tc look
...
... sacrifices to their volcano Masaya , flinging the corpses into the crater , and in
later years , after the conversion of the country , we hear of Christian confessors
sending their penitents to climb the mountain , and ( as a glimpse of hell ) tc look
...
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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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