Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... less under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like , but no longer personal and sentient ; and the Santals of Bengal are said ...
... less under Hindu influence . Thus we hear among the Dayaks of Borneo of the human soul entering the trunks of trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like , but no longer personal and sentient ; and the Santals of Bengal are said ...
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... less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ghostly or ideal manner , or that they shall by some means be con- veyed to him in his distant spirit - home , there are given supplies of food and drink ...
... less distinctly appears to be that the departed soul shall take them away in some ghostly or ideal manner , or that they shall by some means be con- veyed to him in his distant spirit - home , there are given supplies of food and drink ...
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... less of practical intention in it than of childish make - believe . Now and then , however , the sacrificers themselves offer closer definitions of their mean- ing . The idea of the ghost actually devouring the material food is not ...
... less of practical intention in it than of childish make - believe . Now and then , however , the sacrificers themselves offer closer definitions of their mean- ing . The idea of the ghost actually devouring the material food is not ...
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... less myths . Few subjects have aroused the savage poet's mind to such bold and vivid imagery as the thought of the hereafter . Yet also a survey of its details among mankind displays in the midst of variety a regular recurrence of ...
... less myths . Few subjects have aroused the savage poet's mind to such bold and vivid imagery as the thought of the hereafter . Yet also a survey of its details among mankind displays in the midst of variety a regular recurrence of ...
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... less strong than that which leads them to place their world of the dead on or below the earth's sur- face . Yet some well - marked descriptions of a savage 1 See Schoolcraft , ' Indian Tribes , ' part i . pp . 269 , 311 ; Smith ...
... less strong than that which leads them to place their world of the dead on or below the earth's sur- face . Yet some well - marked descriptions of a savage 1 See Schoolcraft , ' Indian Tribes , ' part i . pp . 269 , 311 ; Smith ...
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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