Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the next child born to this recipient of the departed soul is animated by it , and takes the rank and name of the deceased ...
... hands on the breast of the dying or dead , then holds them over the head of a relative and blows through them ; the next child born to this recipient of the departed soul is animated by it , and takes the rank and name of the deceased ...
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... hands touching us ; and last evening , as it was his farewell , they gave us a special manifestation , un- asked for aud unlo ked for . He sitting at the right hand of me , a vacant chair opposite to him began moving , and , in answer ...
... hands touching us ; and last evening , as it was his farewell , they gave us a special manifestation , un- asked for aud unlo ked for . He sitting at the right hand of me , a vacant chair opposite to him began moving , and , in answer ...
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... hand , and how out of the three or four available answers some people adopted one , some another , some several at once . Primitive theologians had all the world before them where to choose their place of rest for the departed , and ...
... hand , and how out of the three or four available answers some people adopted one , some another , some several at once . Primitive theologians had all the world before them where to choose their place of rest for the departed , and ...
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... hand take them ; though they climb up to Heaven , thence will I bring them down . " Thither Jew and Gentile go down : " What man liveth , and shall not see death ? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol ? " Asshur and all her ...
... hand take them ; though they climb up to Heaven , thence will I bring them down . " Thither Jew and Gentile go down : " What man liveth , and shall not see death ? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol ? " Asshur and all her ...
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... hand findeth to do , do it with thy might ; for there is no work , nor device , nor knowledge , nor wisdom , in Sheol , whither thou goest . " 1 Such thoughts of the life of the shades below did not disappear when , in the later years ...
... hand findeth to do , do it with thy might ; for there is no work , nor device , nor knowledge , nor wisdom , in Sheol , whither thou goest . " 1 Such thoughts of the life of the shades below did not disappear when , in the later years ...
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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