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Journey of the Soul to the Land of the Dead , Visits by the Living to the Regions of
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 ...
Journey of the Soul to the Land of the Dead , Visits by the Living to the Regions of
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 ...
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... the next child born to this recipient of the 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 ...
... the next child born to this recipient of the 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 ...
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In Old Calabar , if a mother loses a child , and another is born soon after , she
thinks the departed one to have come back . The Wanika consider that the soul of
a dead ancestor animates a child , and this is why it resembles its father or
mother ...
In Old Calabar , if a mother loses a child , and another is born soon after , she
thinks the departed one to have come back . The Wanika consider that the soul of
a dead ancestor animates a child , and this is why it resembles its father or
mother ...
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The belief in the new human birth of the 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 ...
The belief in the new human birth of the 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 ...
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In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise
again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the resurrection of the
dead on earth , considered the first white people they saw as departed spirits ...
In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise
again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the resurrection of the
dead on earth , considered the first white people they saw as departed spirits ...
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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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