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RITES AND CEREMONIES . Religious Rites : their purpose practical or symbolic
- Prayer : its continuity from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases
Unethical ; its higher phases Ethical - - Sacrifice : its original Giftthcory passes
into the ...
RITES AND CEREMONIES . Religious Rites : their purpose practical or symbolic
- Prayer : its continuity from low to high levels of Culture ; its lower phases
Unethical ; its higher phases Ethical - - Sacrifice : its original Giftthcory passes
into the ...
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As . Soc , Bengal , ' vol . ix . pp . 793 , etc . ; Dalton in Tr . Eth . Soc . ' vol . vi . p . 22
( similar rite of Mundas and Oraons ) . & Klemm , •Culturgeschichte , ' vol . iii . p .
77 . renewal of old family names by giving them to new ANIMISM .
As . Soc , Bengal , ' vol . ix . pp . 793 , etc . ; Dalton in Tr . Eth . Soc . ' vol . vi . p . 22
( similar rite of Mundas and Oraons ) . & Klemm , •Culturgeschichte , ' vol . iii . p .
77 . renewal of old family names by giving them to new ANIMISM .
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Among the Iroquois of North America the spirit also stays near the body for a time
, and “ unless the rites of burial were performed , it was believed that the spirits of
the dead hovered for a time upon the earth , in a state of great unhappiness .
Among the Iroquois of North America the spirit also stays near the body for a time
, and “ unless the rites of burial were performed , it was believed that the spirits of
the dead hovered for a time upon the earth , in a state of great unhappiness .
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In the classic world such rites were represented by funeral feasts and oblations of
food . 4 In Christian times there manifests itself that interesting kind of survival
which , keeping up the old ceremony in form , has adapted its motive to new ...
In the classic world such rites were represented by funeral feasts and oblations of
food . 4 In Christian times there manifests itself that interesting kind of survival
which , keeping up the old ceremony in form , has adapted its motive to new ...
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Their rites are much the same as those performed on other days for individuals ;
their season differs in different districts , but seems to have particular associations
with harvest - time and the fall of the year , and with the year ' s end as ...
Their rites are much the same as those performed on other days for individuals ;
their season differs in different districts , but seems to have particular associations
with harvest - time and the fall of the year , and with the year ' s end as ...
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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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