Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Feasts of the Dead CHAPTER XIII . ANIMISM ( continued ) . · 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 ...
... Feasts of the Dead CHAPTER XIII . ANIMISM ( continued ) . · 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 ...
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... Feasts of the Dead . HAVING thus traced upward from the lower levels of cul- ture the opinions of mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things ...
... Feasts of the Dead . HAVING thus traced upward from the lower levels of cul- ture the opinions of mankind as to the souls , spirits , ghosts , or phantoms , considered to belong to men , to the lower animals , to plants , and to things ...
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... feast on the seventh day , and the priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of water , and judging from observations made on the person of the infant , determines which of his progenitors has reap- peared , and the child ...
... feast on the seventh day , and the priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of water , and judging from observations made on the person of the infant , determines which of his progenitors has reap- peared , and the child ...
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... Feast of the Dead ; of that pathetic funeral rite of the Iroquois , the setting free a bird on the evening of burial , to carry away the soul.5 In Mexico , the Tlascalans thought that after death the souls of nobles would animate ...
... Feast of the Dead ; of that pathetic funeral rite of the Iroquois , the setting free a bird on the evening of burial , to carry away the soul.5 In Mexico , the Tlascalans thought that after death the souls of nobles would animate ...
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... feast on a boar has been known to throw 1 Beausobre , Hist . de Manichée , ' etc. , vol . i . pp . 245-6 , vol . ii . pp . 496–9 . See Augustin . Contra Faust .; De Hæres .; De Quantitate Animæ . 2 Gul . de Rubruquis in Rec . des Voy ...
... feast on a boar has been known to throw 1 Beausobre , Hist . de Manichée , ' etc. , vol . i . pp . 245-6 , vol . ii . pp . 496–9 . See Augustin . Contra Faust .; De Hæres .; De Quantitate Animæ . 2 Gul . de Rubruquis in Rec . des Voy ...
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