Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... : its relation to Sun - myth and Sun - worship ; rules of East and West as to burial of dead , position of worship , and structure of temple - Lustration by Water and Fire : its transition from material to CONTENTS . vii.
... : its relation to Sun - myth and Sun - worship ; rules of East and West as to burial of dead , position of worship , and structure of temple - Lustration by Water and Fire : its transition from material to CONTENTS . vii.
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... temple the shield he had carried in a former birth , when he was that Euphorbos whom Menelaus flew at the siege of Troy . Afterwards he was Hermotimos , the Klazomenian prophet whose funeral rites were so prematurely celebrated while ...
... temple the shield he had carried in a former birth , when he was that Euphorbos whom Menelaus flew at the siege of Troy . Afterwards he was Hermotimos , the Klazomenian prophet whose funeral rites were so prematurely celebrated while ...
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... temple which opened the way to the sojourn of the blessed . In the kingdom of Prester John , Maundevile tells of an entrance to the in- fernal regions : " Sum men clepen it the vale enchanted , some clepen it the vale of develes , and ...
... temple which opened the way to the sojourn of the blessed . In the kingdom of Prester John , Maundevile tells of an entrance to the in- fernal regions : " Sum men clepen it the vale enchanted , some clepen it the vale of develes , and ...
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... temples and offerings , and thus have become in fact a regular class of local deities.3 Among them may be counted the diabolic soul of a certain wicked British officer , whom native worshippers in the Tinnevelly district still ...
... temples and offerings , and thus have become in fact a regular class of local deities.3 Among them may be counted the diabolic soul of a certain wicked British officer , whom native worshippers in the Tinnevelly district still ...
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... temples for dead men . Turning to the dark races of the Pacific , we find the Tasmanians laying their sick round a corpse on the funeral pile , that the dead might come in the night and take out the devils that caused the diseases ; it ...
... temples for dead men . Turning to the dark races of the Pacific , we find the Tasmanians laying their sick round a corpse on the funeral pile , that the dead might come in the night and take out the devils that caused the diseases ; it ...
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