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Page 10
The recognition of plants as possible receptacles of the transmigrating spirit well
illustrates the conception of souls of plants . The idea is one known to lower races
in the district of the world which has been more or less under Hindu influence .
The recognition of plants as possible receptacles of the transmigrating spirit well
illustrates the conception of souls of plants . The idea is one known to lower races
in the district of the world which has been more or less under Hindu influence .
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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 conveyed
...
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 conveyed
...
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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 offer closer ...
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 offer closer ...
Page 44
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 . Few subjects
have ...
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 . Few subjects
have ...
Page 71
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 . Yet some well - marked
descriptions of ...
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 . Yet some well - marked
descriptions of ...
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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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