Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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Page 19
... practice , so common among low and high races , of preserving relics of the dead , from mere morsels of bone up to whole mummified bodies . It is well known that the departed soul is often thought apt to revisit the remains of the body ...
... practice , so common among low and high races , of preserving relics of the dead , from mere morsels of bone up to whole mummified bodies . It is well known that the departed soul is often thought apt to revisit the remains of the body ...
Page 38
... practice , and round it , on the second of November , there naturally gathered surviving remnants of the primitive rite of banquets to the dead . The accusation against the early Christians , that they appeased the shades of the dead ...
... practice , and round it , on the second of November , there naturally gathered surviving remnants of the primitive rite of banquets to the dead . The accusation against the early Christians , that they appeased the shades of the dead ...
Page 112
... practice by an actual manufacture of demons , as witness the two following accounts . A certain brahman , on whose lands a kshatriya raja had built a house , ripped himself up in revenge , and became a demon of the kind called ...
... practice by an actual manufacture of demons , as witness the two following accounts . A certain brahman , on whose lands a kshatriya raja had built a house , ripped himself up in revenge , and became a demon of the kind called ...
Page 125
... practices of the exorcist appear side by side with the doctrine of possession , from its first appearance in savagery to its survival in modern civilization , and nothing could display more vividly the conception of a disease or a ...
... practices of the exorcist appear side by side with the doctrine of possession , from its first appearance in savagery to its survival in modern civilization , and nothing could display more vividly the conception of a disease or a ...
Page 138
... practice remained in fullest vigour through the classic world , scarce altered from the times of lowest barbarism . Could a South Sea islander have gone to Delphi to watch the convulsive struggles of the Pythia , and listen to her ...
... practice remained in fullest vigour through the classic world , scarce altered from the times of lowest barbarism . Could a South Sea islander have gone to Delphi to watch the convulsive struggles of the Pythia , and listen to her ...
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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