Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... present mass , yet arrested and as it seems henceforth unprogressive ir development ; but the more highly educated world has rejected the ancient belief , and it now only survives in Europe in dwindling remnants . Far different has been ...
... present mass , yet arrested and as it seems henceforth unprogressive ir development ; but the more highly educated world has rejected the ancient belief , and it now only survives in Europe in dwindling remnants . Far different has been ...
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... present life . When King Bimsara's feet were burned and rubbed with salt by command of his cruel son that he might not walk , why was this torture inflicted on a man so holy ? Because in a previous birth he had walked near a dagoba with ...
... present life . When King Bimsara's feet were burned and rubbed with salt by command of his cruel son that he might not walk , why was this torture inflicted on a man so holy ? Because in a previous birth he had walked near a dagoba with ...
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... present to explore them , the measure of months . and years breaks down even within the narrow span of human life , and the survivor's thought of the soul of the departed dwindles and disappears with the personal memory that kept it ...
... present to explore them , the measure of months . and years breaks down even within the narrow span of human life , and the survivor's thought of the soul of the departed dwindles and disappears with the personal memory that kept it ...
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... present in the hall of ancestors ; so multi- tudes in Europe and America live in an atmosphere that swarms with ghostly shapes - spirits of the dead , who sit over against the mystic by his midnight fire , rap and write in spirit ...
... present in the hall of ancestors ; so multi- tudes in Europe and America live in an atmosphere that swarms with ghostly shapes - spirits of the dead , who sit over against the mystic by his midnight fire , rap and write in spirit ...
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... present purpose , a custom may be selected which is admirably adapted for the study of animistic religion , at once from the clear conception it gives of the belief in disembodied souls present among the living , and from the distinct ...
... present purpose , a custom may be selected which is admirably adapted for the study of animistic religion , at once from the clear conception it gives of the belief in disembodied souls present among the living , and from the distinct ...
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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