Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Orientation : its relation to Sun - myth and Sun - worship ; rules of East and West as to burial of dead , position of worship , and structure of temple - Lustration by Water and Fire : its transition from material to CONTENTS . vii.
... Orientation : its relation to Sun - myth and Sun - worship ; rules of East and West as to burial of dead , position of worship , and structure of temple - Lustration by Water and Fire : its transition from material to CONTENTS . vii.
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... 347 --52 . " St. John , Far East , ' vol . i . p . 181 . 6 3 Hunter , Rural Bengal , ' p . 210. See also Shaw in ' As . Res . ' vol . iv . p . 46 ( Rajmahal tribes ) . ideas of the indigenes , or vice versá ? A 10 ANIMISM .
... 347 --52 . " St. John , Far East , ' vol . i . p . 181 . 6 3 Hunter , Rural Bengal , ' p . 210. See also Shaw in ' As . Res . ' vol . iv . p . 46 ( Rajmahal tribes ) . ideas of the indigenes , or vice versá ? A 10 ANIMISM .
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... East African is asked what becomes of his buried ancestors , the " old people , " he can reply that " they are ended , " yet at the same time he fully admits that their ghosts survive . In an account of the religious ideas of the Zulus ...
... East African is asked what becomes of his buried ancestors , the " old people , " he can reply that " they are ended , " yet at the same time he fully admits that their ghosts survive . In an account of the religious ideas of the Zulus ...
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... East Africa set a cocoa - nut shell full of rice and tembo near the grave for the " koma " or shade , which cannot exist without food and drink . In West Africa the Efik cook food and leave it on the table in the little shed or " devil ...
... East Africa set a cocoa - nut shell full of rice and tembo near the grave for the " koma " or shade , which cannot exist without food and drink . In West Africa the Efik cook food and leave it on the table in the little shed or " devil ...
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... East Asia is full of it , and the Chinese may stand as its repre- sentative . He keeps his coffined parent for years , serving him with meals as if alive . He summons ancestral souls with prayer and beat of drum to feed on the meat and ...
... East Asia is full of it , and the Chinese may stand as its repre- sentative . He keeps his coffined parent for years , serving him with meals as if alive . He summons ancestral souls with prayer and beat of drum to feed on the meat and ...
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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