Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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The idea is one known to lower races in the district of the world which has been more or 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 ...
The idea is one known to lower races in the district of the world which has been more or 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 ...
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Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter , of which the purpose more or 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 ...
Among the funeral offerings described in the last chapter , of which the purpose more or 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 ...
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Even where the thought is certainly that the departed soul eats , this thought may be very indefinite , with far less of practical intention in it than of childish make - believe . Now and then , however , the sacrificers themselves ...
Even where the thought is certainly that the departed soul eats , this thought may be very indefinite , with far less of practical intention in it than of childish make - believe . Now and then , however , the sacrificers themselves ...
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When these fall under the inspection of a modern ethnographer , he treats them as myths ; often to a high degree intelligible and rational in their origin , consistent and regular in their structure , but not the less myths .
When these fall under the inspection of a modern ethnographer , he treats them as myths ; often to a high degree intelligible and rational in their origin , consistent and regular in their structure , but not the less myths .
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Among the lower races , the tendency to localize the region of departed souls above the sky seems less strong than that which leads them to place their world of the dead on or below the earth's surface .
Among the lower races , the tendency to localize the region of departed souls above the sky seems less strong than that which leads them to place their world of the dead on or below the earth's surface .
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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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