Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 1H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page xi
... Death , Symplēgades ; Eye of Heaven , Eye of Odin and the Graia - Sun and Moon as mythic civilizers - Moon , her inconstancy , periodical death and revival - Stars , their gene- ration - Constellations , their place in Mythology and ...
... Death , Symplēgades ; Eye of Heaven , Eye of Odin and the Graia - Sun and Moon as mythic civilizers - Moon , her inconstancy , periodical death and revival - Stars , their gene- ration - Constellations , their place in Mythology and ...
Page xii
... Death , Health and Disease , Sleep and Dreams , Trance and Visions - Relation of Soul in name and nature to Shadow , Blood , Breath - Division or Plurality of Souls - Soul cause of Life ; its restoration to body when supposed absent ...
... Death , Health and Disease , Sleep and Dreams , Trance and Visions - Relation of Soul in name and nature to Shadow , Blood , Breath - Division or Plurality of Souls - Soul cause of Life ; its restoration to body when supposed absent ...
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... death , but of the recurrence , year after year , of such obscure and seemingly incalculable products of national life as the numbers of murders and suicides , and the proportion of the very weapons of crime . Other striking cases are ...
... death , but of the recurrence , year after year , of such obscure and seemingly incalculable products of national life as the numbers of murders and suicides , and the proportion of the very weapons of crime . Other striking cases are ...
Page 12
... deaths by poison , and of chests of tea imported , express in a diffe- rent way other partial results of the general life of a whole community . That a whole nation should have a special dress , special tools and weapons , special laws ...
... deaths by poison , and of chests of tea imported , express in a diffe- rent way other partial results of the general life of a whole community . That a whole nation should have a special dress , special tools and weapons , special laws ...
Page 77
... deaths a boy , the first - born of his mother , thrown from hand to hand among them by turns , they venerate him in whose hand the child expires , as having attained to the first dignity of the sect . " To explain the correspond- ence ...
... deaths a boy , the first - born of his mother , thrown from hand to hand among them by turns , they venerate him in whose hand the child expires , as having attained to the first dignity of the sect . " To explain the correspond- ence ...
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