Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... round to the edge of the reef past the rocks where Nangananga , destroyer of wifeless souls , sits laughing at their hopeless efforts , and asking them if they think the tide will never flow again , till at last the rising flood drives ...
... round to the edge of the reef past the rocks where Nangananga , destroyer of wifeless souls , sits laughing at their hopeless efforts , and asking them if they think the tide will never flow again , till at last the rising flood drives ...
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... round the house ; the Siberian Chuwashes fling a red - hot stone 1 Bastian , ' Mensch , ' vol . ii . p . 323 . Kolben , p . 579 . 3 Billings , p . 125 . Bastian , ' Oestl . Asien . ' vol . i . p . 145 ; Cross , 1. c . , p . 311. For ...
... round the house ; the Siberian Chuwashes fling a red - hot stone 1 Bastian , ' Mensch , ' vol . ii . p . 323 . Kolben , p . 579 . 3 Billings , p . 125 . Bastian , ' Oestl . Asien . ' vol . i . p . 145 ; Cross , 1. c . , p . 311. For ...
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... round their houses , and offer- ings and libations are constantly made at them . With what feelings such rites are celebrated may be judged from this Ho dirge : - " We never scolded you ; never wronged you ; Come to us back ! Hodgson ...
... round their houses , and offer- ings and libations are constantly made at them . With what feelings such rites are celebrated may be judged from this Ho dirge : - " We never scolded you ; never wronged you ; Come to us back ! Hodgson ...
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... 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 with feasts like ...
... 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 with feasts like ...
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... round , she espied in the distance an enormous bird , taller than a man , coming towards her with rapid strides . This terrible object so frightened her , that her first thought was to try to return up the steep cliff ; but seeing an ...
... round , she espied in the distance an enormous bird , taller than a man , coming towards her with rapid strides . This terrible object so frightened her , that her first thought was to try to return up the steep cliff ; but seeing an ...
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