Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page vii
... means of producing ecstatic vision ; its course from lower to higher Culture - Drugs used to produce ecstacy - Swoons and fits induced for religious purposes - Orientation : its relation to Sun - myth and Sun - worship ; rules of East ...
... means of producing ecstatic vision ; its course from lower to higher Culture - Drugs used to produce ecstacy - Swoons and fits induced for religious purposes - Orientation : its relation to Sun - myth and Sun - worship ; rules of East ...
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... Ethics and Law - Religion - Action of the Science of Culture , as a means of furthering progress and removing hindrance , effective in the course of Civilization 448 PRIMITIVE CULTURE . CHAPTER XII . ANIMISM - continued . viii CONTENTS .
... Ethics and Law - Religion - Action of the Science of Culture , as a means of furthering progress and removing hindrance , effective in the course of Civilization 448 PRIMITIVE CULTURE . CHAPTER XII . ANIMISM - continued . viii CONTENTS .
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... means of investi- gation fail at this point . " The ultimate destiny of the more glorified being is the Sun ; the pure spirits who form its mass of burning gases , pour out germs and life to start the course of planetary existence ...
... means of investi- gation fail at this point . " The ultimate destiny of the more glorified being is the Sun ; the pure spirits who form its mass of burning gases , pour out germs and life to start the course of planetary existence ...
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... means necessary that the surviving soul should be provided with a new body , for it seems itself to be of a filmy or vaporous corporeal nature , capable of carrying on an independent existence like other corporeal creatures . Savage ...
... means necessary that the surviving soul should be provided with a new body , for it seems itself to be of a filmy or vaporous corporeal nature , capable of carrying on an independent existence like other corporeal creatures . Savage ...
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... mean to say that they are dead . When the East African is asked what becomes of his buried ancestors , the " old people , " he can reply that " they are ended , " yet at the same time he fully admits that their ghosts survive . In an ...
... mean to say that they are dead . When the East African is asked what becomes of his buried ancestors , the " old people , " he can reply that " they are ended , " yet at the same time he fully admits that their ghosts survive . In an ...
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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