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... of the Dead thus imagined as in the West - Realization of current religious ideas , whether of savage or civilized theology , in narratives of visits to the Regions of Souls - Localization of the Future Life - Distant earthly region ...
... of the Dead thus imagined as in the West - Realization of current religious ideas , whether of savage or civilized theology , in narratives of visits to the Regions of Souls - Localization of the Future Life - Distant earthly region ...
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... its course from lower to higher Culture - Drugs used to produce ecstacy - Swoons and fits induced for religions purposes - Orientation : its relation to Sun - myth and Sun - worship ; rules of East and West as to burial of dead ...
... its course from lower to higher Culture - Drugs used to produce ecstacy - Swoons and fits induced for religions purposes - Orientation : its relation to Sun - myth and Sun - worship ; rules of East and West as to burial of dead ...
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In North - West America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion of soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ...
In North - West America , among the Tacullis , we hear of direct transfusion of soul by the medicine - man , who , putting his hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ...
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In North - West America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; 1 and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians ...
In North - West America , among the Koloshes , the mother sees in a dream the deceased relative whose transmitted soul will give his likeness to the child ; 1 and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians ...
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In another district of North - West I Grey , “ Australia , ' vol . i . p . 301 , vol . ii . p . 363 , [ native's accusation against some foreign sailors who had assaulted him , " djanga Taal - wurt kyle - gut bomb - gur , ” — “ one of ...
In another district of North - West I Grey , “ Australia , ' vol . i . p . 301 , vol . ii . p . 363 , [ native's accusation against some foreign sailors who had assaulted him , " djanga Taal - wurt kyle - gut bomb - gur , ” — “ one of ...
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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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