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... and in certain localities monkeys , crocodiles , and snakes , being thought men
in metempsychosis , are held sacred . It is to be borne in mind that notions of this
kind may form in barbaric psychology but a portion of the wide doctrine of the ...
... and in certain localities monkeys , crocodiles , and snakes , being thought men
in metempsychosis , are held sacred . It is to be borne in mind that notions of this
kind may form in barbaric psychology but a portion of the wide doctrine of the ...
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Nowhere in the world had such thoughts a stronger hold than in classic antiquity ,
where it was the most sacred of duties to give the body its funeral rites , that the
shade should not flit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander in the dismal
...
Nowhere in the world had such thoughts a stronger hold than in classic antiquity ,
where it was the most sacred of duties to give the body its funeral rites , that the
shade should not flit moaning near the gates of Hades , nor wander in the dismal
...
Page 60
When at last he heard of it , he made the ascent , finding on the top only a few
riverstones , forming one of the balai , or sacred cairns , common in the district .
But the popular belief , that a tiger would devour the chiefs who permitted a
violation ...
When at last he heard of it , he made the ascent , finding on the top only a few
riverstones , forming one of the balai , or sacred cairns , common in the district .
But the popular belief , that a tiger would devour the chiefs who permitted a
violation ...
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like solar thought the Egyptian priests , representing in symbolic ceremony the
scenes of the other world , carried the corpse in the sacred boat across to the
burial - place , on the western side of the sacred lake . So , too , the cavernous
Sheol ...
like solar thought the Egyptian priests , representing in symbolic ceremony the
scenes of the other world , carried the corpse in the sacred boat across to the
burial - place , on the western side of the sacred lake . So , too , the cavernous
Sheol ...
Page 72
... then rising to heaven in the East he disappeared , having promised to be the
helper of his people on earth , and to transport them , when they died , from the
top of a sacred tree into another life , where they shall find their kindred and have
...
... then rising to heaven in the East he disappeared , having promised to be the
helper of his people on earth , and to transport them , when they died , from the
top of a sacred tree into another life , where they shall find their kindred and have
...
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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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