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... First Man as Divine AncestorDualism ; its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development through the course of vulture - Good and Evil Deity - Doctrine of Divine Supremacy , distinct from , while tending towards ...
... First Man as Divine AncestorDualism ; its rudimentary and unethical nature among low races ; its development through the course of vulture - Good and Evil Deity - Doctrine of Divine Supremacy , distinct from , while tending towards ...
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In the Tonga islands , the future life was a privilege of caste , for while the chiefs and higher orders were to pass in divine ethereality to the happy land of Bolotu ...
In the Tonga islands , the future life was a privilege of caste , for while the chiefs and higher orders were to pass in divine ethereality to the happy land of Bolotu ...
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... it inhabits , as a divine ancestral spirit , the palace - tombs of the old classic and new Asiatic world ; it is kept down by the huge cairn raised over Antar's body lest his mighty spirit should burst forth , by the iron nails with ...
... it inhabits , as a divine ancestral spirit , the palace - tombs of the old classic and new Asiatic world ; it is kept down by the huge cairn raised over Antar's body lest his mighty spirit should burst forth , by the iron nails with ...
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As in their thoughts sensual pleasure seemed poor and despicable in comparison with mystic inward joy , rising and rising till consciousness fades in trance , so , above their heavens of millions of years of mere divine happiness , they ...
As in their thoughts sensual pleasure seemed poor and despicable in comparison with mystic inward joy , rising and rising till consciousness fades in trance , so , above their heavens of millions of years of mere divine happiness , they ...
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According to Bosman , the souls of Guinea negroes reaching the river of death must answer to the divine judge how they have lived ; have they religiously observed the holy days dedicated to their god , have they abstained from all ...
According to Bosman , the souls of Guinea negroes reaching the river of death must answer to the divine judge how they have lived ; have they religiously observed the holy days dedicated to their god , have they abstained from all ...
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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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