Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... the continued existence of the soul after the death of the body , but it gives the key to many of their speculations on the nature of this existence , speculations VOL . II . B rational enough from the savage point of view , though.
... the continued existence of the soul after the death of the body , but it gives the key to many of their speculations on the nature of this existence , speculations VOL . II . B rational enough from the savage point of view , though.
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... give his likeness to the child ; and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians because he had a mark like the scar of a gun - shot wound on his hip , it being believed that a chief dead some four generations ...
... give his likeness to the child ; and in Vancouver's Island in 1860 a lad was much regarded by the Indians because he had a mark like the scar of a gun - shot wound on his hip , it being believed that a chief dead some four generations ...
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... give the body its funeral rites , that the shade should not flit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander in the dismal crowd along the banks 1 Oldfield in ' Tr . Eth . Soc . ' vol . iii . pp . 228 , 236 , 245 . 2 Taylor , ' New ...
... give the body its funeral rites , that the shade should not flit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander in the dismal crowd along the banks 1 Oldfield in ' Tr . Eth . Soc . ' vol . iii . pp . 228 , 236 , 245 . 2 Taylor , ' New ...
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... give here elaborate details of the world - wide thought that when the corpse is buried , exposed , burned , or otherwise disposed of after the accepted custom of the land , the ghost accompanies its relics . The soul stays near the ...
... give here elaborate details of the world - wide thought that when the corpse is buried , exposed , burned , or otherwise disposed of after the accepted custom of the land , the ghost accompanies its relics . The soul stays near the ...
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... gives of the belief in disembodied souls present among the living , and from the distinct line of ethnographic continuity in which it may be traced onward from the lower to the higher culture . This is the custom of Feasts of the Dead ...
... gives of the belief in disembodied souls present among the living , and from the distinct line of ethnographic continuity in which it may be traced onward from the lower to the higher culture . This is the custom of Feasts of the Dead ...
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