Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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Page xi
... Death , Symplegades ; Eye of Heaven , Eye of Odin and the Graiæ - Sun and Moon as mythic civilizers - Moon , her inconstancy , periodical death and revival — Stars , their generation — Constellations , their place in Mythology and ...
... Death , Symplegades ; Eye of Heaven , Eye of Odin and the Graiæ - Sun and Moon as mythic civilizers - Moon , her inconstancy , periodical death and revival — Stars , their generation — 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 ...
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... deaths by poison , and of chests of tea imported , express in a differ- ent 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 ...
... deaths by poison , and of chests of tea imported , express in a differ- ent 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 ...
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... the blind days of popery , as an expiation for the souls of such as were snatched away by sudden death ; see below , p . 287 . [ Note to 3rd ed . ] phenomena of culture , and of the laws to which 20 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
... the blind days of popery , as an expiation for the souls of such as were snatched away by sudden death ; see below , p . 287 . [ Note to 3rd ed . ] phenomena of culture , and of the laws to which 20 THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE .
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Abipones Africa ages Amazulu ancient animals animistic appears Archæology Archip Aryan Asien barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body called century Charlevoix Chinook Jargon civilization connexion creatures culture custom Dayaks dead death described divination doctrine dreams early earth English European evidence express fact fancy father Fiji fingers funeral ghost Greek Grimm hand heaven Hine-nui-te-po Hist human hyæna idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands Journ Karens Khonds language legend living lower races Malay man's mankind Maui Max Müller meaning mediæval Mensch mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature nature-myth night numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin primitive Quichua quinary relation religion remarkable rite rude Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems sneeze soul sound spirit stone story survival theory things thought tion Tonga traced Veddas verb vigesimal vowels Waitz words Wuttke Yoruba Zealand Zulu