Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Departed Souls - Connexion of such legends with myths of Sunset : the Land 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 ...
... Departed Souls - Connexion of such legends with myths of Sunset : the Land 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 ...
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... departed soul is animated by it , and takes the rank and name of the deceased . The Nutka Indians not without ingenuity accounted for the existence . of a distant tribe speaking the same language as themselves , by declaring them to be ...
... departed soul is animated by it , and takes the rank and name of the deceased . The Nutka Indians not without ingenuity accounted for the existence . of a distant tribe speaking the same language as themselves , by declaring them to be ...
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... departed one to have come back.3 The Wanika consider that the soul of a dead ancestor animates a child , and this is why it resembles its father or mother ; in Guinea a child bear- ing a strong resemblance , physical or mental , to a ...
... departed one to have come back.3 The Wanika consider that the soul of a dead ancestor animates a child , and this is why it resembles its father or mother ; in Guinea a child bear- ing a strong resemblance , physical or mental , to a ...
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... departed soul , which has even led West African negroes to commit suicide when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly ...
... departed soul , which has even led West African negroes to commit suicide when in distant slavery , that they may revive in their own land , in fact amounts among several of the lower races to a distinct doctrine of an earthly ...
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... departed spirits thus come back.2 Next , the lower psychology , drawing no definite line of demarcation between souls of men and of beasts , can at least admit without difficulty the transmission of human souls into the bodies of the ...
... departed spirits thus come back.2 Next , the lower psychology , drawing no definite line of demarcation between souls of men and of beasts , can at least admit without difficulty the transmission of human souls into the bodies of the ...
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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