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... Swoons and fits induced for religious purposes - 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 i Brebenf in .
... Swoons and fits induced for religious purposes - 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 i Brebenf in .
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Ward , Hindoos , ' vol . i . p . 164 , vol . ii . pp . 215 , 317 --52 . * St. John , “ Far East , ' vol . i . p . 181 . 3 Hunter , ' Rural Bengal , ' p . 210. See also Shaw in ' As . Res . ' rol . iv . p . 46 ( Rajmahal tribes ) .
Ward , Hindoos , ' vol . i . p . 164 , vol . ii . pp . 215 , 317 --52 . * St. John , “ Far East , ' vol . i . p . 181 . 3 Hunter , ' Rural Bengal , ' p . 210. See also Shaw in ' As . Res . ' rol . iv . p . 46 ( Rajmahal tribes ) .
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When the 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 ...
When the 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 ...
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The Wanika of 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 ...
The Wanika of 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 ...
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South - East Asia is full of it , and the Chinese may stand as its representative . 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 ...
South - East Asia is full of it , and the Chinese may stand as its representative . 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 ...
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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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