Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2 |
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... to the lower animals , to plants , and to things , we are now prepared to investigate one of the great religious doctrines of mankind , the belief in the soul's continued existence in a Life after Death . Here let us once more call ...
... to the lower animals , to plants , and to things , we are now prepared to investigate one of the great religious doctrines of mankind , the belief in the soul's continued existence in a Life after Death . Here let us once more call ...
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... through holy ascetics , Brahmans , nymphs , kings , counsellors , to actors , drunkards , birds , dancers , cheats , elephants , horses , Sudras , barbarians , wild beasts , snakes , worms , insects , and inert things .
... through holy ascetics , Brahmans , nymphs , kings , counsellors , to actors , drunkards , birds , dancers , cheats , elephants , horses , Sudras , barbarians , wild beasts , snakes , worms , insects , and inert things .
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Moreover , the Brahmanic doctrine of souls transmigrating into inert things has in like manner a bearing on the savage ... beings and the lower animals , and in an exceptional way recognized a degradation even into a plant or a thing .
Moreover , the Brahmanic doctrine of souls transmigrating into inert things has in like manner a bearing on the savage ... beings and the lower animals , and in an exceptional way recognized a degradation even into a plant or a thing .
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Mikyllos asks this cock to tell him about Troy -- were things there really as Homer said ? But the cock replies , “ How should Homer have known , O Mikyllos ? When the Trojan war was going on , he was a camel in Baktria ! ” 2 .
Mikyllos asks this cock to tell him about Troy -- were things there really as Homer said ? But the cock replies , “ How should Homer have known , O Mikyllos ? When the Trojan war was going on , he was a camel in Baktria ! ” 2 .
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... a poem of the Dinka tribe of the White Nile , concerning Dendid the Creator : “ On the day when Dendid made all things , He made the sun ; And the sun comes forth , goes down , and comes again : He made the moon ; And the moon comes ...
... a poem of the Dinka tribe of the White Nile , concerning Dendid the Creator : “ On the day when Dendid made all things , He made the sun ; And the sun comes forth , goes down , and comes again : He made the moon ; And the moon comes ...
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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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