Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 27
... abode should be not the haunts of the living but the resting - places of the dead . 6 After all , it scarcely seems to the lower animistic philo- sophy that the connexion between body and soul is utterly broken by death . Various wants ...
... abode should be not the haunts of the living but the resting - places of the dead . 6 After all , it scarcely seems to the lower animistic philo- sophy that the connexion between body and soul is utterly broken by death . Various wants ...
Page 59
... abodes of departed souls is not an unprofitable task . True , geography has now mapped out into mere earth and water the space that lay beyond the narrower sea and land known to the older nations , and astronomy no longer recognizes the ...
... abodes of departed souls is not an unprofitable task . True , geography has now mapped out into mere earth and water the space that lay beyond the narrower sea and land known to the older nations , and astronomy no longer recognizes the ...
Page 60
... abode of departed souls , is a question often difficult to answer . But we may at least see how again and again the question was taken in hand , and how out of the three or four available answers some people adopted one , some another ...
... abode of departed souls , is a question often difficult to answer . But we may at least see how again and again the question was taken in hand , and how out of the three or four available answers some people adopted one , some another ...
Page 61
... abode the souls of children sacrificed to Tlaloc , its god , and the souls of such as died by drowning or thunderstroke , or by leprosy or dropsy , or other acute disease . A survival of such thought may be traced into mediæval ...
... abode the souls of children sacrificed to Tlaloc , its god , and the souls of such as died by drowning or thunderstroke , or by leprosy or dropsy , or other acute disease . A survival of such thought may be traced into mediæval ...
Page 63
... abode of blessed spirits of the dead , came indeed to be identified . with the Elysian Fields . Thus Pindar sings of steadfast souls , who through three lives on either side have endured free from injustice ; then they pass by the road ...
... abode of blessed spirits of the dead , came indeed to be identified . with the Elysian Fields . Thus Pindar sings of steadfast souls , who through three lives on either side have endured free from injustice ; then they pass by the road ...
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