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Among other North American tribes , we hear of the Powhatans refraining from doing harm to certain small woodbirds which received the souls of their chiefs ; 3 of Huron souls turning into turtle - doves after the burial of their bores ...
Among other North American tribes , we hear of the Powhatans refraining from doing harm to certain small woodbirds which received the souls of their chiefs ; 3 of Huron souls turning into turtle - doves after the burial of their bores ...
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Though seemingly not received by the early Aryans , the doctrine of migration was adopted and adapted by Hindu philosophy , and forms an integral part of that great system common to Brahmanism and Buddhism , wherein successive births or ...
Though seemingly not received by the early Aryans , the doctrine of migration was adopted and adapted by Hindu philosophy , and forms an integral part of that great system common to Brahmanism and Buddhism , wherein successive births or ...
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... time on account of the merit he has received in former births , but if he does not continue to keep the precepts , his next birth will be in one of the hells , he will then be born in this world as a beast , afterwards as a preta or ...
... time on account of the merit he has received in former births , but if he does not continue to keep the precepts , his next birth will be in one of the hells , he will then be born in this world as a beast , afterwards as a preta or ...
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Thereupon the hermit sent a message to Abbot Odilo , who carried out the work to the efficacy of which he had received such perfect spiritual testimony , by decreeing that Nov. 2 , the day after All Saints ' , should be set apart for ...
Thereupon the hermit sent a message to Abbot Odilo , who carried out the work to the efficacy of which he had received such perfect spiritual testimony , by decreeing that Nov. 2 , the day after All Saints ' , should be set apart for ...
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But the popular belief , that a tiger would devour the chiefs who permitted a violation of the sacred place , soon received the sort of confirmation which such beliefs receive everywhere , for a tiger killed two children a few days ...
But the popular belief , that a tiger would devour the chiefs who permitted a violation of the sacred place , soon received the sort of confirmation which such beliefs receive everywhere , for a tiger killed two children a few days ...
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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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