Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... CEREMONIES . Religious Rites : their purpose practical or symbolic - Prayer : its continuity from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical ; its higher phases Ethical - Sacrifice : its original Gift- theory passes into ...
... CEREMONIES . Religious Rites : their purpose practical or symbolic - Prayer : its continuity from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases Unethical ; its higher phases Ethical - Sacrifice : its original Gift- theory passes into ...
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... ceremony of full manes- worship : votive offerings are made to the " old folks " when their descendants go on a journey , and when there is sick- ness in the family it is generally they who are first pro- pitiated . Among Turanian races ...
... ceremony of full manes- worship : votive offerings are made to the " old folks " when their descendants go on a journey , and when there is sick- ness in the family it is generally they who are first pro- pitiated . Among Turanian races ...
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... ceremonies so important for the soul's release from its twelvemonth's sojourn with Yama in Hades , and its transition to ... ceremony in form , has adapted its motive to new thoughts and feelings . The classic funeral oblations became ...
... ceremonies so important for the soul's release from its twelvemonth's sojourn with Yama in Hades , and its transition to ... ceremony in form , has adapted its motive to new thoughts and feelings . The classic funeral oblations became ...
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... ceremony , like to it in form , of set- ting food and drink to be sanctified by the sepulchre of a Christian saint . Saint - Foix , who wrote in the time of Louis XIV . , has left us an account of the ceremonial after the death of a ...
... ceremony , like to it in form , of set- ting food and drink to be sanctified by the sepulchre of a Christian saint . Saint - Foix , who wrote in the time of Louis XIV . , has left us an account of the ceremonial after the death of a ...
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... ceremonies , at most tokens of affectionate remembrance of the dead , or works of charity to the living . The Roman Feralia in Ovid's time were a striking example of such transition , for while the idea was recognized that the ghosts ...
... ceremonies , at most tokens of affectionate remembrance of the dead , or works of charity to the living . The Roman Feralia in Ovid's time were a striking example of such transition , for while the idea was recognized that the ghosts ...
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Africa Amazulu Amer ancestors ancient animals animistic Archip Aryan Avesta barbaric Bastian beasts belief body Brahmans Brinton Buddhism Castrén ceremony Chinese Christian civilized conception connexion Creator dead death deity demons disease divine doctrine dwell earth evil feast fetish fire ghosts give gods Greek Grimm Hades Heaven Heaven-god higher Hindu human idea idol images Indians Iroquois island J. G. Müller Journ Khonds land living lower culture lower races lustration mankind Max Müller Meiners mind modern Moon Myth nations native nature negro offerings original Parsi pass Peru philosophy Pinkerton Polynesia polytheism prayer priest region religion religious rites rude sacred sacrifice savage Schoolcraft seems Sheol snakes solar spirits stone Sun-worship Supreme Deity survival temple theology theory thou thought thunder tion Tonga tree tribes Turanian tribes Unkulunkulu Waitz West worship Zealand Zeus Zulu