Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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One of the most remarkable forms which this belief assumes is when dark - skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to account for the appearance among them of human creatures of a new strange sort , the white men , and struck with ...
One of the most remarkable forms which this belief assumes is when dark - skinned races , wanting some reasonable theory to account for the appearance among them of human creatures of a new strange sort , the white men , and struck with ...
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... grizzly bear as the recipient of the soul of some particular grandam , whom they fancied the creature to resemble . ... animate beautiful singing birds , while plebeians passed into weasels and beetles and such like vile creatures .
... grizzly bear as the recipient of the soul of some particular grandam , whom they fancied the creature to resemble . ... animate beautiful singing birds , while plebeians passed into weasels and beetles and such like vile creatures .
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The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of resurrection and ...
The Zulus , while admitting that a man may turn into a wasp or lizard , work out in the fullest way the idea of the dead becoming snakes , a creature whose change of skin has so often been associated with the thought of resurrection and ...
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... “ bound in the chains of deeds ” and “ eating the fruits of past actions , " promotes or degrades itself along a series of embodiments in plant , beast , man , deity . Thus all creatures differ rather in degree than kind , all are ...
... “ bound in the chains of deeds ” and “ eating the fruits of past actions , " promotes or degrades itself along a series of embodiments in plant , beast , man , deity . Thus all creatures differ rather in degree than kind , all are ...
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or Within the classic world , the ancient Egyptians are described as maintaining a doctrine of migration , whether by successive embodiments in a “ cycle of necessity ” through creatures of earth , sea , and air , and back again to man ...
or Within the classic world , the ancient Egyptians are described as maintaining a doctrine of migration , whether by successive embodiments in a “ cycle of necessity ” through creatures of earth , sea , and air , and back again to man ...
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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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