Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Brahmanism and Buddhism , wherein successive births or existences are believed to carry on the consequences of past and ... Brahmans , nymphs , kings , counsellors , to actors , drunkards , birds , dancers , cheats , elephants , horses ...
... Brahmanism and Buddhism , wherein successive births or existences are believed to carry on the consequences of past and ... Brahmans , nymphs , kings , counsellors , to actors , drunkards , birds , dancers , cheats , elephants , horses ...
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... Brahman may pass into a wild beast or pariah ; he who adulterously dishonours his guru or spiritual father shall be a hundred times re - born as grass , a bush , a creeper , a carrion bird , a beast of prey ; the cruel shall become ...
... Brahman may pass into a wild beast or pariah ; he who adulterously dishonours his guru or spiritual father shall be a hundred times re - born as grass , a bush , a creeper , a carrion bird , a beast of prey ; the cruel shall become ...
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... Brahmans of the Coromandel Coast as eating fruits , but being careful not to pull the plants up by the roots , lest ... Brahmanic doctrine of souls trans- migrating into inert things has in like manner a bearing on the savage theory of ...
... Brahmans of the Coromandel Coast as eating fruits , but being careful not to pull the plants up by the roots , lest ... Brahmanic doctrine of souls trans- migrating into inert things has in like manner a bearing on the savage theory of ...
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... Brahmans , and while they silently eat the hot food , the ancestral spirits take their part of the feast . At the old Slavonic meals for the .dead , we read of the survivors sitting in silence and throw- ing morsels under the table ...
... Brahmans , and while they silently eat the hot food , the ancestral spirits take their part of the feast . At the old Slavonic meals for the .dead , we read of the survivors sitting in silence and throw- ing morsels under the table ...
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... Brahmanism , Zarathustrism , Buddhism , and onward into the range of Islam and of Christianity , subterranean hells of purgatory or punishment make the doleful contrast to heavens of light and glory . It is , however , a point worthy of ...
... Brahmanism , Zarathustrism , Buddhism , and onward into the range of Islam and of Christianity , subterranean hells of purgatory or punishment make the doleful contrast to heavens of light and glory . It is , however , a point worthy of ...
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