Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... African negroes to commit suicide when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly resurrection . One of the most remarkable forms ...
... African negroes to commit suicide when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly resurrection . One of the most remarkable forms ...
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... Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the resurrection of the dead on earth , considered the first white people they saw as ...
... Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the resurrection of the dead on earth , considered the first white people they saw as ...
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... Africa , again , mention is made of the Maravi thinking that the souls of bad men became jackals , and good men snakes . The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the ...
... Africa , again , mention is made of the Maravi thinking that the souls of bad men became jackals , and good men snakes . The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the ...
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... African mother who has lost her child , it is a consolation to say , " He will come again . " 1 In higher levels of culture , the theory of re - embodiment of the soul appears in strong and varied development . Though seemingly not ...
... African mother who has lost her child , it is a consolation to say , " He will come again . " 1 In higher levels of culture , the theory of re - embodiment of the soul appears in strong and varied development . Though seemingly not ...
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... Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great system of ethical philosophy , reviving and failing through classic and medieval Europe , and lingering at last in the modern world as an intellectual ...
... Africa , established in old Egypt , elaborated by the Hindu mind into its great system of ethical philosophy , reviving and failing through classic and medieval Europe , and lingering at last in the modern world as an intellectual ...
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